Past
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Maggi Hambling - Aftermath
18 May - 19 Jul 2024 Maggi Hambling (b. 1945) is one of Europe’s leading contemporary artists, celebrated both for her paintings of people, the sea, melting polar ice-caps, environmental destruction and war zones, and for her public sculpture, including A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft and A conversation with Oscar Wilde in London and the monumental... Read more -
John Giorno - Perfect flowers
15 Dec 2023 - 26 Jan 2024 Created in the late 2000s, the series of works titled 'Perfect Flowers' was inspired by Giorno's 2004 poem 'Welcoming the Flowers' and a corresponding set of prints. Giorno physically transformed poetic verses such as 'daffodils / baptized in butter,' 'poppies packed with narcotic treats,' and 'the cherry blossoms are razor... Read more -
Wim Delvoye - Solo show
7 Oct - 1 Dec 2023 The show presents a selection of iconic pieces from Wim Delvoye’s oeuvre of the past 15 years, from the neo-gothic ironwork, twisted bronze sculptures, Rorschach sculptures to the carved tires, aiming to strengthen the artist’s years-long relationship with the History of Art. Delvoye art offers a re-interpretation of artworks from... Read more -
Matteo Callegari - Life Force
14 Jul - 22 Sep 2023 Matteo Callegari’s practice has been deeply informed by his stays in the Amazon rainforest in Peru. As a result of his personal experiences the artist has aligned himself with an understanding of nature which originates simultaneously from surviving native cultures and the historical ancestral past of “advanced” societies, where humans... Read more -
David Deutsch - In Motion
10 Jun - 20 Jul 2023 This exhibition, titled “In Motion”, presents a series of paintings which are made through a transfer process. Deutsch first paints on sheets of plastic which he then transfers onto stretched canvases. The folds and creases remain visible and the result is a transparent and fluid paint application. The paintings have... Read more -
Marco Cingolani - Revenge Gold
18 Feb - 31 Mar 2023 The title, “Revenge Gold”, doesn’t want to pass unnoticed. These lapidary words allude to gold’s power, seduction, and curse. Yet, they also remind us of Ennio Morricone’s song, “The Ecstasy of Gold”, closing Sergio Leone’s “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”. At the movie’s end, the audience hears a... Read more -
From nature to spirit - Group show
24 Sep - 1 Nov 2022 This exhibition is the result of exchanging ideas and sharing experiences (both in words and in visual terms) on the relationship between spirit and nature. The artists offer a variety of personal contributions, reflecting the infinite abundance of reflections this topic offers; we can look at each piece as the... Read more -
Jimmie Durham - Solo show
24 Jun - 22 Jul 2022 The exhibition presents a selection of works by Durham which explores the relationship between forms and concepts. He combined words within his sculptures and drawings to conjure images and used images to convey ideas. His sculptural constructions were often combined with disparate elements, such as written messages, photographs, words, drawings... Read more -
Andrea Kvas and Erik Saglia - SPAZIALE!
11 Feb - 15 Apr 2022 “Spaziale!” will present ten large sculptural and pictorial artworks resulting from the artistic meeting and exchange between two painters from the same generation, yet with completely different backgrounds and personal histories. Andrea Kvas and Erik Saglia were inspired by Marquise Rambouillet’s literary salon. The Marquise opened the first literary salon... Read more -
Maggi Hambling - Portraits
9 Oct - 27 Nov 2021 Maggi Hambling (b. 1945) is one of Europe’s leading contemporary figurative artists, celebrated both for her paintings of people, the sea, melting polar ice-caps, environmental destruction and was zones, and for her public sculptures, including A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft unveiled in London in 2020, and the monumental Scallop, for... Read more -
Klaus Rinke - Push the button: Photographs from the Seventies
8 May - 30 Jun 2021 In the mid-Sixties, Rinke developed his first performances titled 'Primary Demonstrations'. In such performances, he explored the concepts of masculine and feminine, as well as the spatiality and temporality of human existence. Rinke used his own body and gestures to construct 'drawings in space' as a means to measure Space... Read more -
Robert Feintuch - Selected Paintings 2010-2018
18 Dec 2020 - 13 Feb 2021 […] I first noticed Robert Feintuch’s work on the cover of the Brooklyn Rail, in 2014, and I thought the paintings were crazy. I was surprised to find myself thinking about his work a lot across the next several years and I began to research it. As I saw more... Read more -
Jack Pierson - Free Yourself
26 Sep - 11 Nov 2020 A classical artist living in New York, the centre of the most extreme contemporaneity, may sound curious. It sounds even more curious that, even though Pierson’s works of art harmonically converse with Greek/Roman culture, they are created with contemporary materials and techniques. Greek Classical Art lived on pathos, on heroes’... Read more -
Pathos - Group show
20 Dec 2019 - 22 Feb 2020 No one among the Art historians of the 19th and 20th centuries has gained contemporary artists' interest and inquiry as much as the German historian Aby Warburg. There certainly is more than one reason if the pairing of Warburg with contemporary art does not appear to be bizarre or forced.... Read more -
John Torreano - Column Paintings
12 Oct - 30 Nov 2019 The column painting shape came from Mr. Torreano's need to challenge such modernist dogma as essentialism, that painting must be 'flat' or that paintings were 'containers' of meaning. His use of the column shape coincided with an interest in the Big Bang theory in the early 70's. The Universe was... Read more -
Joe Zucker - Forbidden Motion: Surface, Image and Metaphor
30 Mar - 1 May 2019 Forbidden Motion – Surface, Image and Metaphor explores Zucker’s lifelong interest in still life paintings and is reminiscent of Giorgio Morandi’s Nature Morte. Muted color palettes and minimalistic subjects clash with a layered constructivism. Zucker and the Italian master, Morandi, focused on the development of formal qualities of line, color... Read more -
Ron Gorchov - Theogony according to Ron Gorchov
15 Dec 2018 - 26 Jan 2019 The exhibition presents a series of brand new paintings inspired by Hesiod’s Theogony, the first known Greek poem discribing the origins and genealogies of Greek gods and the rise of Zeus. Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, artists have consistently refered to ancient myths; from Picasso's Minotaur to Louise Bourgeois'... Read more -
Copper, Marble, Cotton - Group show
20 Oct - 1 Dec 2018 The exhibition examines the choice, by each of the above-mentioned artists, of specific traditional materials for both their cultural associations and formal properties, enlightening also the significance role of traditional and concrete materials in the currently contemporary art. Starting from the Sixties, the importance of materials has been re-evaluated by... Read more -
David Novros - Portable Murals
26 May - 15 Jul 2018 For the Portable Murals show, held at the Thomas Brambilla Gallery, four large modular canvas and four working drawings that best express the Artist’s poetics will be exhibited. Novros’ monochromatic and irregular canvas are, in fact, composed by a variety of thick layers of acrylic paint and enameled pigments of... Read more -
Simon Linke - Solo show
24 Feb - 6 Apr 2018 Slightly smaller than one of Artforum's full-page ads, Simon Linke's paintings corrupt the clean graphic layout of their source through a full-on indulgence in an excess of oil paint. Replicating the ads as faithfully as possible while wrangling a robust, fluid material within an almost comically limiting surface area, Linke's... Read more -
To Bid Or Not To Bid - Contemporary Curated
16 Dec 2017 - 10 Feb 2018 If we left the world in the hands of journalists, psychoanalysts and psychologists, man-made wonders would disappear: paintings, statues, lamps, chairs, bus tickets, books, manuscripts. They would all disappear, swallowed by the iconoclastic order of time that destroys everything and everything dumps. Nevertheless, and fortunately we may add, collectors exist... Read more -
Edoardo Piermattei - Patroni
7 Oct - 30 Nov 2017 For his first solo show, the Artist, native of the Marches, will display his love for an Art proud and brave enough to define itself as responsible and essential. An attitude which could easily be considered pretentious in such an historical period deprived of norms and certainties; nonetheless, coming from... Read more -
Oscar Giaconia - Wunderkammer N 1
26 May - 15 Jul 2017 In these moments, when Art displays itself as a stack of artistic shows, mainly seen as nothing more than public entertainment, the need for rest and meditation becomes urgent. The large kermesses in Venice and Kassel and the ever-increasing number of fairs and auctions contribute to creating and multiplying a... Read more -
Edoardo Piermattei - Art Basel Hong Kong 2017
23 - 25 Mar 2017 The project for Art Basel Hong Kong, presented by Thomas Brambilla Gallery, is based on a site specific installation in a reduced scale 1:2 of the renowned Porziuncola of the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli of Assisi, conceived by the young Italian artist Edoardo Piermattei. The idea behind this... Read more -
Lynda Benglis - Benglis and the Baroque
10 Dec 2016 - 25 Feb 2017 The exhibition includes a series of large scale marble Torsos specially made for this show. Benglis and the Baroque explores Benglis’ long-held interest in Baroque sculpture. Much like Gianlorenzo Bernini, Benglis seeks to freeze the intensity of the moment and merge beauty and sensuality in spectacular frozen gestures. Benglis’ attention... Read more -
Erik Saglia - Grande Cosmogonia Portatile
15 Oct - 6 Dec 2016 This exhibition is inspired by the concept of Cosmogony from the analysis of Petite Cosmogonie Portative by Raymond Queneau and Cosmicomiche of Italo Calvino, in relation to Albrecht Dürer woodcut Man drawing a reclining woman, which is also the cover text of Palomar by Italo Calvino. Dürer’s woodcut becomes a... Read more -
Klaus Rinke - The Memories Belong To Me
7 May - 30 Jul 2016 This exhibition marks Klaus Rinke’s return to Italy after his ground-breaking exhibitions in the 1970’s at the Toselli gallery in Milan and the L’Attico Gallery in Rome. The exhibition includes a series of large-format paintings on canvas which seem to seek to define their volume in space. The essence of... Read more -
Thomas Helbig - In A Present
5 Mar - 6 May 2016 In Thomas Helbig’s recent works, immaterial traces of jewellery, decorative chains, rosaries and cosmic motifs light up against the dark background of the medium, much like in photograms. Helbig uses colourful stage fabrics as carrier material. In contrast to a canvas, the surface swallows the light that hits it, or... Read more -
Marco Cingolani - Uncanny Zone
12 Dec 2015 - 27 Feb 2016 The painting is nourished by ancient dreams and brings with itself the awareness that it is the figure and the figuration that distinguish the experience. Root of language and of every concept, there is the figure that stands against the background and it is this incessant figuration of bodies that... Read more -
Der Beste Anfang - Group show
3 Oct - 14 Nov 2015 The Avant-garde is always an instance of novelty, that changes form, transforms the language and present itself as – Der Beste Anfang – The best beginning, taking the irrational responsibility to act as a “necessary and essential force”, not only for itself but also for everyone and everything. Klaus Rinke... Read more -
Ron Gorchov - Recent Works
21 Mar - 23 May 2015 In the last two decades, a purified picture has set in contemporary painting, in which form and color are subjected to a process of subtraction. The result is a drying up of the image that is imposed for suspension and lowering, becoming a sort of 'shroud of painting'. In Europe,... Read more -
Sphères 7 - Group show
19 Oct 2014 - 6 Jun 2015 Thomas Brambilla Gallery is announcing its participation in the seventh edition of Sphères, an exhibition project organized by the Galleria Continua which will bring together several galleries from all over the world, guided by the desire to combine their different energies around a common and unprecedented exhibition experience at the... Read more -
Funzione Continua - Group show
11 Oct - 8 Dec 2014 Connection, limit, continuity and compactness, are terms that are well suited to the works of Domenico Bianchi, Dadamaino, Raoul De Keyser, Carlos Garaicoa, Ron Gorchov, Corinna Gosmaro, Alessia Xausa. Artists of different ages and formation create works that seem to be the solution to topological problems, just because in Topology,... Read more -
Erik Saglia - Sniffnglue
28 Feb - 10 May 2014 The artist, starting with the implications of the 'modernist grid', emphasizes and restructures it replicating it with adhesive tape, that, perfectly laid in orthogonal lines, covers the camouflage spots; the tape is stuck in a precise and rigorous way, submitting the body to the discipline of the exact gesture that... Read more -
Anatoly Osmolovsky - Cadavre Exquis and Dodici Suicidi
30 Nov 2013 - 31 Jan 2014 The exhibition's title refers to the central work of the solo show (a reinterpretation of the Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci made in 1:1 scale) and refers to a famous surrealist practice - Cadavre Exquis - a process of collective creation of a text or an image in which... Read more -
William Anastasi and Dove Bradshaw - Art Rio
5 - 10 Sep 2013 Thomas Brambilla gallery is proud to announce the participation at Art Rio 2013 with artists such as William Anastasi and Dove Bradshaw. William Anastasi (Philadelphia, 1933) is an important exponent of American Conceptual Art and Minimal Art. In 1965 he met John Cage and was impressed by his musical theories,... Read more -
Too Big Or Not Too Big - Group show
18 May - 30 Jun 2013 Thomas Brambilla Gallery is proud to announce on Saturday 18th May 2013 the opening of the group show Too big or not too big with William Anastasi, Dario Beatovic, Dove Bradshaw, Marco Cingolani, Tom Friedman, Oscar Giaconia, Thomas Helbig, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Erik Saglia, Alessia Xausa. The opening of Too big... Read more -
Grayson Revoir - Solo show
19 Jan - 31 Mar 2013 Thomas Brambilla gallery is proud to announce on Saturday 19 January 2013 the opening of the solo show of the American artist Grayson Revoir. The solo show presents eight pieces, mainly screws and nails on wooden panel, a ladder, a photo made in collaboration with Calla Henker and Max Pitegoff... Read more -
Oscar Giaconia - Alea
6 Oct - 15 Dec 2012 Alea is, with Agon, Mimesis and Ilinx, one of the four types of games defined by Roger Caillois in 1958 in his book Les Jeux et les Hommes: le masque et le vertige (Man, Play and Games). Specifically, Alea refers to gambles, as dice, when fate plays a primary part,... Read more -
Anatoly Osmolovsky - Conference
2 - 3 Jun 2012 Thomas Brambilla Gallery is honored to present a 'space' for discussion on the current contemporary art system, through the reflections of the Russian artist and intellectual Anatoly Osmolovsky. The conference will also try to investigate the difficult subject of the art market and its active figures. Besides, it will also... Read more -
Blind Hole - Group show
31 Mar - 4 Jun 2012 In the latest history of art, the obsession for void and chasm is a constant. Since Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni till the latter Anish Kapoor, absence and filling of void have always been main topics. It’s a necessity, for art and perhaps for humanity itself, to understand void and... Read more -
Brendan Lynch - Solo show
26 Nov 2011 - 11 Feb 2012 Brendan Lynch has been pursuing an essence in the flags of idiocy that brand the stereotypically unaesthetic substrata in our contemporary society. In this exhibition, he does not focus on any particular beauty or aesthetic power in the abstracted materials associated with such generalized groups as deadheads, construction workers and... Read more -
Thomas Helbig - Quite Days in Salò
23 Sep - 21 Nov 2011 The show is inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini movie “Salò” and it is composed by a series of new paintings and sculptures. Helbig’s work is a combination of contradictions and intimacy: the elegant decoration reminds the Baroque churches and, at the same times, it evokes the dreamlike atmosphere of Pasolini’s... Read more -
My Beautiful Mongo - Group show
22 May - 29 Jul 2011 The concept of the show is inspired by Ted Botha’s book “Mongo”, a slang word which indicates waste materials collected, recovered and reuse by a lot of people around the world. The myriad of reasons for collecting rubbish draw upon the most basic of human desires: some people collect for... Read more -
Goekhan Erdogan - The Man Outside
18 Dec 2010 - 19 Mar 2011 Thomas Brambilla Gallery is honored to present the first solo show of the Turkish artist Goekhan Erdogan. His work is mainly based on the concept of identity, not only in its more common and diffused meaning, but as an actual inner knowledge process. Goekhan Erdogan magnifies the photos of the... Read more -
Patching - Group show
9 Oct - 7 Dec 2010 The unifying concept of PATCHING is collage. However, only one artist in the show— Kirstine Roepstorff—actually displays collages, in the traditional sense. The other artists have created works that suggest a collage-like fusion of disparate surfaces and textures, within a wholly integral plane. Collage, as a formal technique and medium,... Read more
