MASSIMO SANSAVINI (Forlì, 1961). After studying sculpture at the Ravenna Academy of Fine Arts, he was asked to Brazil by the Director of the São Paulo Art Biennale. Sansavini spent a year there arranging the Sansavini exhibition, set up in the São Paulo Museu Brasileiro da Escultura.
The exhibition was then accepted by the Rio de Janeiro National Fine Arts Museum on the desire of architect Oscar Niemeyer and afterwards received in various cities in Latin America. Subsequently he worked for RAI, the Italian Radio and Television Corporation, as scene designer and realised fashion and design projects for Maison Enrico Coveri.
In 2005 he created Neverland, an exhibition hosted by the major German exhibition venues with the sponsorship of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2007 he exhibited in the United States at Art Miami and FLL Fashion Week at Fort Lauderdale.
In 2009 he took part in the exhibition presented by Philippe Daverio, A+B+C/Futurismo in Alessandria, where he was asked to execute a monumental public work. In 2010 his Road to Futurism exhibition was received at the Beijing National Art Museum of China and the Guangdong Museum of Art.
In 2011 he was invited to show at the 54th Venice Biennale. Since 2013 he has exhibited at the Macro, the Auditorium Conciliazione and the Santa Rita complex in Rome and the Santa Giulia Museum in Brescia. In 2016, after three years of research, he presents Touroperator, an exhibition of works executed from wood gathered, by exclusive permission, from the Lampedusa boat graveyard.