Emilio Cavallini was born in San Miniato, Pisa in 1945. In the mid-sixties he dedicated himself to his greatest passions: fashion and art, and his work emerged in an innovative and original way.

In the late sixties he went to London and collaborated with Mary Quant on her stocking collections. Emilio Cavallini reinvented the idea of pantyhose, drawing his inspiration from contemporary art, and stockings became an elegant accessory that redefined woman.

Emilio Cavallini’s designer career lead him to navigate artistic circles, especially in the United States. While he gained notoriety as a designer in the fashion world, he started to create important artworks to fulfill his own personal interests. A few years ago, in 2010, he decided to devote himself exclusively to his art and to make it public.

Emilio Cavallini uses unconventional materials for his art, materials borrowed from the fashion world: nylon yarns, printed fabrics, his own tights, yarn’s reels etc. His artistic research is founded on geometry and mathematics: dots, lines, squares, triangles, circles are settled in a 3D environment. Everything follows combinatorial principles, permutations, growth algorithms and the most recent mathematical-geometrical theories, as you can see from his artworks titles.

Emilio Cavallini’s artistic path follows important art movements of the second half of the 1900’s from the Kinetic Art to the Generative Art.

Some of the artist’s exhibitions

2011
Trinneale of Milan, Milan, Italy

2015
Rosai Ugolini Modern - New York, United States
Opera Gallery - Paris, France
Valmore studio d’arte- Vicenza, Italy

2016
GR Gallery - New York, United States

2017
The Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles - Los Angeles, United States
Castello di Belgioioso - Pavia, Italy

2018
Galleria Novecento di Palazzo Sarcinelli - Conegliano, Italy
GR Gallery 255 Bowery - New York, United States
I A & A at Hillyer - Washington, United States
Italian Culture Institute - Washington, United States

2019
Interface HUB/ART – Milan, Italy

2020
Nexxt- Los Angeles, United State

2021
Miart Gallery -St. James's, London , UK
Musei Civici - San Miniato, Italy

Emilio Cavallini artistic path was outlined in the book “Magnificent Obsession” curated by Benedetta Barzini, published by Skira.