Past exhibitions
Erica Ravenna Gallery's exhibition work focuses on thematic lines, creating a dialogue between national and international artists of the same and also of different generations, collaborating with private collections and institutions as well.
Tomaso Binga:SCRIVO DI PROPRIO PUGNO
› Tomaso Binga
Tuesday 20th September 2022 – Saturday 10th Dicember 2022
The exhibition aims to deepen the semiological meaning of Tomaso Binga's work, through a “journey” among her visual alphabets. In this way we intend to investigate the meaning of her radical writings, from a critical perspective that highlights the ambivalence between signifier and signified, exploring new horizons of language. Tomaso Binga's desire for this exhibition was therefore to transform the gallery into a large artist's primer
ARCHIVIARE L’IMPOSSIBILE
› Gianfranco Baruchello, Joseph Cornell, Mark Dion
Saturday 12th March 2022 – Tuesday 12th July 2022
In keeping with the thematic and transgenerational research line that the gallery has privileged over the years, the exhibition project of the new season is focused on the possibility of the languages of art to synthesize through images the data of knowledge of history and memory. In this sense, the work of the selected artists is exemplary: Gianfranco Baruchello, Joseph Cornell, Mark Dion, among those who have most effectively attempted to describe the “chaos” of the world. Through a procedural strategy that critically reimagines the archive and data storage, the rhizomatic thought of the three artists has materialized into images that compel to reflect on the limits of the dominant narratives.
L’uomo e l’arte
› Giorgio de Chirico, Lucas Cranach il Vecchio, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Jannis Kounellis, Gino Marotta, Giulio Paolini, Mario Schifano
Wednesday 21th April 2021 – Tuesday 20th July 2021
The gallery reopens its new venue with the exhibition “The Man and the Art”. Once again it underlines the importance of the relationship with history as a founding element of the various expressions of visual art. A selection of works by contemporary artists, in which the reference to past and more recent art history is evident, is mirrored in an unprecedented comparison with the original sources of inspiration. This presents a dialogue that reveals the history of images and questions the collective representations of the Western memory and culture. The exhibition will outline the results of a research that the iconologist Aby Warburg would have called the eternal “survival of the ancient”.
FAUSTO MELOTTI punctum contra punctum: musiche polifoniche
› Fausto Melotti
Sunday 10th November 2019 – February 2020
The ongoing research of the gallery, which focuses on in-depth study and dialogue between the various disciplines of art, is once again the focal theme. This exhibition wants to highlight, through a selection of works on paper, plasters, ceramics and sculptures, the meaning and relevance that music has made in the work of Fausto Melotti - one of the major protagonists of Italian and international art - in particular through the form of "counterpoint" and polyphony. The idea is to accompany the vision of the works with some pieces of music that have been of particular interest to the artist and that have "resonance" with his work.
IL FAVOLOSO MONDO DI GINO MAROTTA
› Gino Marotta
Tuesday 16th October 2018 – Friday 15th February 2019
Curated by Laura Cherubini and Erica Ravenna
Gino Marotta’s vision of innovative art is strongly characterized by the use of new chemical and industrial materials. In particular the use of methacrylate awakens a poetical meaning that arouses lyrical universes.
His poetry is characterized by the dualism between nature and artifice, light and transparency, work and environment that leads him to recreate imaginary scenarios populated by transparent figures, drawn from the world of nature but clearly fictitious and emptied of consistency.
STORIE IN GIOCO
› Gianfranco Baruchello, Tomaso Binga, Alighiero Boetti, Tano Festa, Emilio Isgrò, Jannis Kounellis, Gino Marotta, Aldo Mondino, Pino Pascali
Tuesday 22th May 2018 - Friday 21th September 2018
Curated by Erica Ravenna
From the Latin iocus, joke. Exercise of strength and skill, but also fiction, artifice. The world of childhood perceived as a place of infinite possibilities. The iconic elements of this world appear as a representation of that dreamlike, imaginative dimension proper to the human condition.
CORPORALE
› Tomaso Binga e Donatella Spaziani
Tuesday 12th December 2017 - Saturday 17th March 2018
Curated by Laura Cherubini and Erica Ravenna
This exhibition project deepens the theme of the body as subject, focusing on the relation between the works of Tomaso Binga and Donatella Spaziani, two artists from different generations.
Roma anni '60: No - Pop
› Franco Angeli, Mario Ceroli, Tano Festa, Jannis Kounellis, Sergio Lombardo, Francesco Lo Savio, Renato Mambor, Gino Marotta, Fabio Mauri, Mimmo Rotella, Mario Schifano, Cesare Tacchi
Thursday 18th May - Sunday 15th October 2017
Curated by Laura Cherubini and Erica Ravenna.
The exhibition project, through a selection of the works of the most important artists in the Roman scenario from 1960 to 1970, proposes a new reading of the poetry of those years conventionally associated with Pop art movements, Arte Povera and conceptual art, highlighting the common reference to the tradition of the history of classical Italian art.
Presentazione catalogo
Roma anni '60: no - pop
Monday 18th September 2017
Speaking Fulvio Abbate, Fabio Benzi, Laura Cherubini, Sergio Lombardo, Paola Pitagora, Duccio Trombadori and many others of the '60, between innovation and identity.
GALLERIA IN VERSI
Landscape with body
2016
› Luca Pancrazzi, Laura Pugno, Donatella Spaziani
with the participation of Valerio Magrelli
Curated by Adriana Polveroni and Erica Ravenna.
“The Rhyming Gallery" is a cycle of three exhibitions, each based on a particular theme and marked by an interplay between the work of poets and artists. The exhibition project proposes to explore the possibility of dialogue between different expressive idioms, which, though distant in appearance, may reveal curious convergences, and thus aid in re-establishing the gallery as a space of exchange and reflection.
Addo Trinci
End/Lessness
2016
Curated by Adriana Polveroni.
Schusev State Museum of Architecture (Moscow), Anfilada hall.
Exhibition organised and produced by the Italian Cultural Institute in Moscow, Erica Ravenna Fiorentini Arte Contemporanea (Rome), and by the Schusev State Museum of Architecture (Moscow).
Paolo Cotani
La pittura
2015
Texts in the catalogue by Laura Cherubini, Roberto Pasini, Giovanna Dalla Chiesa, Daniela Ferraria, Fulvio Abbate, Filiberto Menna, Luigi Meneghelli, Giorgio Cortenova, Enrico Mascelloni, Valentino Zeichen.
Equilibri
2014
› Giovanni Anselmo, Giacomo Balla, Simone Berti, Alexander Calder, Alice Cattaneo, Pietro Fortuna, Osvaldo Licini, Fausto Melotti, Maurizio Mochetti, Giorgio Morandi, Grazia Toderi, Gilberto Zorio
Curated by Laura Cherubini and Erica Ravenna.
Addo Trinci
Fuori dal Tempo
2014
"Out of time" presents one sculptural work and a series of photography works printed on abrasive paper, an unusual and innovative support in photographic print that enhances its pictorial values by giving the pictures an atmosphere of opaque and motionless suspension that evoke metaphysical ideas.
Sirous Namazi
Interior
2013
Curated by Laura Cherubini.
Namazi uses discarded objects of everyday life often referred to consumer society, removing them from their original context and incorporating them as part of sculptures and structures to create new hybrids.
Dalla realtà alla profondità
2012
› John Coplans, Jean Fautrier, Richard Long, Maurizio Mochetti, Giorgio Morandi, Giuseppe Penone, Giulio Paolini, Marco Tirelli, Günter Umberg, Elisabeth Vary
Spencer Finch Rome Project
2011
Text by Ludovico Pratesi: "The exhibition brings together a series of works specifically inspired by the history and the artistic tradition of the city of Rome. Finch, whose work has always centered on the analysis of light, presents a light installation inspired on the Pantheon's oculus, the circular opening in the center of the monument's dome, the only source of natural light that illuminates the interior."
Le luci di dentro
La luce nell'arte tra pittura e fotografia
2011
› Patrick Aarnivaara, Josef Albers, Carlo Alfano, Herbert Brandl, Adam Fuss, Luigi Ghirri, Ettore Spalletti e Addo Lodovico Trinci
Curated by Ludovico Pratesi.
Le Luci di Dentro is a collective exhibition about the meaning of light between painting and photography, showing the artworks of eight international artists from different generations.
Maria Elisabetta Novello
Una stanza tutta per sè
2010
Curated by Martina Cavallarin.
There are artistic practices that refer to the functions of forgetfulness or to the lies of dream or to the conquest of a doubt – the unexpected and unresolved doubt of art. There is the work of Maria Elisabetta Novello, whom through ash, her one and absolute linguistic medium, comes into contact with and transports codes and microinformation that multiply those functions, oversights, dreams and doubts.
Baldo Diodato
Opere dal 1965 al 2009
2009
Curated by Achille Bonito Oliva.
This exhibition marks the path of this Neapolitan artist, whose training begins with a series of significant experiences in the groups that inspired the Neapolitan art of the early 60's until today. In 1967 his last exhibition took place at the Modern Art Agency Lucio Amelio, then moved to New York, where he settled until 1992. This year he returned to Rome where he currently lives and works.
URSS Arte Contemporanea
Ilya Kabakov e gli artisti “andergraund” negli anni '60 e '70
2009
› Anatol Brusilovskij, Francisco Infante, Ilya Kabakov, Yuri Lopakov, Mogilevskij, Ernst Neizvestnyi, Sobolev, Ulo Sooster, Vladimir Yankilevskyi, Boris Zutovsky
The gallery presents a series of watercolors, drawings and other works on paper of a large group of artists belonging to the Soviet dissident 60s, collected by Antonello Trombadori, who gave his support to those artists whose research went beyond the "socialist realism."
Jusuf Hadzifejovic
Segnali
2008
For the first time Jusuf Hadžifejzović, one of the most important leading artist in the action and performance movement of eastern Europe, shows in Italy his pictorial work, with a selection of around thirty papers and canvases.
Alfabeti di luce
2007
› Josef Albers, Antonio Calderara, Ettore Spalletti
With a selection of 11 works from three different artists, Alphabets of life presents a path through the subject of the representation of the light by color. The works depict the subject of the dematerialization of the form by layers and light spaces setting. A light that reflects by colors infinite forms and volumes that seem undefined. In this sense, the exhibition suggests a consideration of two coordinates of the linguistic plurality that feed the pictorial abstraction: light and color in a timeless dimension.
Paolo Cotani
Tensioni - opere dal 1971 al 2007
2007
A selection of about 12 works from 1973 to the present.
The artist is one of the protagonists of that research defined the "degree zero" of painting induring the 70s, which was based on the infinite possibility of "re-foundation of language", in a conscious vision of radical renewal of its function.
Emilio Isgrò
Opere dal 1971 al 2007
2007
A selection of twenty works tracks the journey, from the early 1970s to the present, of Emilio Isgrò, one of the leading and anticipating personalities within the New Scriptures and conceptual art.
Sergio Fermariello
Guerrieri
2006
The history and the myth are substantial elements within Fermariello's work. The artist recognizes the myth of the hero - a contemporary hero who fights against homologation and the "progressist" illusion of freedom without conditions - and finds the original values of his own culture in a feeling of complete outdateness.
Carrino Uncini
Costruire - opere dal 1960
2005
Nicola Carrino and Giuseppe Uncini exhibit together after nearly twenty years, with an exhibition of twenty works from the 60s until today. The two artists, even if operating in a different way, mantain an unified vision of the artistic process, and the same interest into the materials' plastic and constructive aspects.
Gino De Dominicis
Opere dal 1970 al 1996
2004
The central themes around which the exhibition revolves are the invisibility, the obsession of immortality and the enigma of existence, a theme that has marked all the work and life of this artist, so important in the landscape of Contemporary art.
Tano Festa
Reperti - opere inedite dal 1960 al 1966
2003
An extraordinary collection of unpublished paperwork from 1961 to 1962 is the core of this exhibition, which emphasizes the originality and importance of the work of this artist.
Appunti di viaggio
2002
Tappeti afghani di
guerra: Boetti e Sarenco.
Scritture
Il segno linguistico nell’arte visiva
tra gli anni ’60 e ’70
2001
› Vincenzo Agnetti, Shusaku Arakawa, Alighiero Boetti, Giuseppe Chiari, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, George Maciunas, Piero Manzoni, Emilio Prini, Mimmo Rotella, Salvo, Sarenco and Cy Twombly
Non solo carte
1999
› Pierre Alechinsky, Arman, Alighiero Boetti, Victor Brauner, Alberto Burri, Enrico Castellani, Piero D’orazio, Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Asger Jorn, Franz Kline, Julio Le parc, Marino Marini, William Nicholson, Luigi Ontani, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Mario Schifano and Cy Twombly.
Leoncillo Leonardi
1988
Sculture dal 1939 al 1959.
Luca Pignatelli
Dipinti e sculture
1997
Text by Duccio Trombadori and Alessandro Riva.
Tito Rossini
Pitture
1994
Text by Duccio Trombadori.
La misura italiana
1992
› Giacomo Balla, Carlo Belli, Edita Broglio, Aurelio Bulzatti, Alberto Burri, Enzo Cucchi, Gino De Dominicis, Piero Dorazio, Tano Festa, Riccardo Francalancia, Osvaldo Licini, Mario Mafai, Eugenio Montale, Giorgio Morandi, Gastone Novelli, Mario Radice, Ottone Rosai, Mimmo Rotella, Gino Severini, Ardengo Soffici, Francesco Trombadori and Giulio Turcato