Vincenzo Agnetti-TOMASO BINGA:

UNA MACCHINA è UNA MACCHINA

› Vincenzo Agnetti, Tomaso Binga

Thursday 12th March 2024- Monday 15th July 2024

Starting from the 1960s, these two artists favoured the use of the word as an expressive medium of “that process of transformation, by means of which thoughts, experiences and life itself can become artistic operations”. In their work, there are many similarities and points of contact, including the use of poetry and performative practices, the conception of art as an operation of synthesis and above all the dysfunctional use of the machine or mechanical device as a creator of images and of new communicative codes.

Simona Weller:Frammenti di un

discorso sul metodo

› Simona Weller

Saturday 7th October 2023- Monday 15th January 2024

With this exhibition the gallery intends to extend an ongoing reflection on the relationship between writing and the visual arts, between the word and the image – particularly as regards artistic activity between the 1960s and the 1980s – by exploring the work of Simona Weller, who can be defined as an artist-writer. The subtitle comes from the reference to the philosophical treatise by Descartes “Discourse on the Method for Reasoning Well and for Seeking Truth in the Sciences” is intended to allude to the idea that artistic activity and creation is an integral part of an essential cognitive process.

FARE UNo: dalla parola al segno di un

dialogo possibile

› Carlo Accardi, Vincenzo Agnetti, Mirella Bentivoglio, Tomaso Binga, Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis, Gino Marotta, Simona Weller

Monday 29th March 2023- Saturday 15th July 2023

This exhibition is the ongoing continuation of the gallery's intention to explore one of the most interesting themes in the field of contemporary artistic practice: the relationship bet-ween art as communication and possible processes of semiosis (signification in language or literature) within art itself. This kind of contiguity between the linguistic and the iconic sign has been a subject of investigation and experimentation in art from the time of the first twen-tieth century avant-gardes until today.

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. 

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.

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.

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