Piero Golia is a mixture of a poet and a bastard, an illusionist and a citizen with a political agenda. For this reason we must describe his work as something that such a character would create, and consider him not as his mother or his best friend knows him, but as the cultural icon that he himself and the art environment which in this instance acts like a sophisticated collection of rules, are co-producing. We must analyze the few tastes which he has granted us with until now, valuing what will be instead of what already is; we must invest information about him to extract whatever important fact. In doing so, before beginning to describe his work, we must ‘switch him on,’ as we would a character from a video game, and pay attention to the very few details that make him different from any other contender for this role.
— Miltos Manetas


Selected solo exhibitions: 2003: Cosmic, Paris; 2002: Maze, Turin; Studio De Carlo, Milan; 2001: Viafarini, Milan; I-20, New York; 2000: Studio Morra, Naples; Maze, Turin; 1999: Italian Cultural Institute, New York.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: Sub Real, SMART, Amsterdam; Così va il mondo, Espace Richard, Paris; 2002: Radical and critical, Fondazione Olivetti, Rome; Napoli anno 0, Castel Sant’Elmo, Naples; There is a light that never goes out, Villa Galvani, Pordenone; La folie, Villa Medici, Rome; 2001: Biennale di Tirana 1; Cosa Arcana e Supenda, Sermoneta, Italy; Italiana, Galleria Civica Montevergini, Siracusa, Italy; Schizzi, macchine e pensieri, Studio De Carlo; Milan; Play, Open Space, Milan; 2000: Castelli in aria, Castel Sant’Elmo, Naples; NaTo, Gale Gates at al., New York.