Massimo Angèi (La Spezia - Italy, 1962). Lives and works in Sarzana.

Massimo Angèi's approach to art developed during his studies in highschool, when he collaborated with various institutions and museums by making nature illustrations. After graduating in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, he partecipated in the first collective exhibition and creation of the Idioma Group together with Marco Casentini, Fabio Linari, Jacopo Bruno and Andrea Geremia. He began to work as a freelance photographer specialising in architecture and interiors, publishing his images in Italian and international magazines, he joined the Grazia Neri photo agencies in Milan and Bilderberg in Hamburg. He also established an important collaboration with J. Holtzman, founder of NEST, the famous NY-based unconventional design quarterly. He continued with photography until 2006 and then decided to devote himself entirely into painting. 

His main exhibitions include: Artplace 88, Bern, Switzerland (2009); Vedoquadro, Villa Pacchiani, Pisa (2009); Zomerexposite, Galerie Noordeinde, Den Haag, Holland (2008); Love Loss and Longing, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, USA (2007); Austellungsraumen der Stadttheaters, Ingolstadt, Germany (1984).