05.12.2024

Vittorio Lingiardi is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and above all, for us, a poet. Corpo, umano contains everything: science, art, and literature. Paintings, symbols, and visions. Lingiardi divides it into three sections: the remembered body, the detailed body, and the rediscovered body. In the second section, for example, there are the hair, a part that concerns all of us, with its vast iconography. A symbol of sacrifice, youth, old age, a powerful social communicator, at the center of many sayings: “I have a devil for a hair,” “split a hair in four,” “don’t twist a hair…”.
But, Lingiardi points out, “I am convinced that in the psyche of hair there is much more…”.
This book interests us because it is intelligent, sharp, full of revelations. A perfect gift for anyone who loves knowledge, beauty, and especially, art.

Vittorio Lingiardi, Corpo, umano, Einaudi, 2024.

27.11.2024

Even the materials with which works of art are created have an impact on our daily lives. Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc. It is a malleable yet durable material. Shiny, similar to gold, but simpler, less expensive, and less pretentious. Anthroposophical philosophy attributes special properties to brass. It is connected to the circulatory and renal systems, it acts as a heat balancer, and it neutralizes magnetic fields. It is also used to soothe pain. It symbolizes strength and steadfastness. It is chosen for the construction of symbolically important objects.

Aiko Miyawaki, more attentive to what is unseen than to the form of objects, chooses it—and this is no coincidence. Before placing a work of art in our homes, it is advisable to consider the full range of forces (material, expressive, vibrational) that make it up.
Let’s also think about what can’t be seen!

28.10.2024

After his solo exhibition in the gallery in 2019, our artist Katsumi Nakai will be featured in the exhibition “Noguchi / Nakai” at Luxembourg + Co. in New York. The event, taking place from October 30 to November 2, 2024, is dedicated to the works of Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) and Katsumi Nakai (1927-2013). The exhibition will be held in the Fuller Building and at Stand C1 of ADAA’s The Art Show.

Both artists were innovators in sculpture, operating on opposite sides of the Atlantic while sharing a desire to translate their Japanese cultural heritage into a new geographic context. Using Noguchi’s seminal work “Seen and Unseen” (1962) as a gateway, the display will focus on the themes of veiling and unveiling as artistic strategies. It will also highlight the significance of Japanese craft traditions, such as origami and garden design.

30 October – 2 November 2024

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OBEY – “to obey,” in Italian “obbedire” – is the provocative word that Shepard Fairey chooses as his artistic name. OBEY is the term the street artist consistently uses throughout his artistic production, inviting the viewer to develop their own critical thinking and to disobey social conventions, when and if necessary. OBEY: The Art of Shepard Fairey is a comprehensive collection of Obey’s art, from the beginnings to his recent works. It serves as a point of reflection on the role of art in public debate, encouraging each visitor to question their own values and the transformative power of creativity.

Milan, Fabbrica del Vapore
From 16 May to 27 October 2024
For info: obeymilano@wunderkammern.net

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Panorama Monferrato

On Sunday, September 8th, the traveling exhibition as part of the Panorama Monferrato event came to a close, during which our gallery participated with a work by Salvatore Scarpitta. The piece, titled “Drummer Brigade”, created in 1963 using oil on canvas, bandages, and straps (61 × 61 × 12 cm), was on display for all four days of the event at the historic Cottolengo of Camagna, located at via Matteotti 30.

Panorama Monferrato reached its fourth edition as part of the ITALICS project, showcasing a selection of 150 works, including sculpture, painting, video, and site-specific installations. Curated by Carlo Falciani, the exhibition took place in the picturesque towns of Camagna, Vignale, Montemagno, and Castagnole, creating an expansive and engaging artistic journey.

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The widespread exhibition “Panorama Monferrato” in 15 locations.
Dialogue as meaning (and art). The itinerary of “Italics” between roots, identity and the sacred.

15 venues, 4 countries, 63 artists, more than 200 works, including paintings, sculptures, photographs and installations. In one year, curator Carlo Falciani studied the territory, identified the countries, chose the locations, conveyed the meaning (to administrators). He explains, “Vignale was an indication. I chose the other villages around, as if it were a journey, an itinerary. For this I was inspired by Guazzo’s Civil Conversation. Those who come from outside will have to understand the roots. And those who welcome will have to understand the outsider.”

Dialogue as meaning. Between ancient and contemporary there are openings, not censures. The very anatomy of the exhibition, Falciani says, “is conceived as an itinerary, a dialogue between forms, identity and time.”
In Montemagno the venue is a castle and ossuary, In Camagna an abandoned cottolengo, in Castagnole it is a schoolteacher’s house. In Vignale, the venue is Palazzo Callori.

Article by Agostino Gramigna
Corriere della Sera

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Strange person Pablo Picasso, bizarre genius and powerful presence, not only in the History of Art worldwide but also in his private affections and relationships with colleagues and friends. For those who wish to traverse his life, from his great artistic achievements to his more fragile private relationships, there is a comprehensive and well-written biography considered almost a bible of the artist. It was written by Patrick O’Brian, a British writer, essayist and translator, and he did it thanks both to his direct acquaintance with Picasso and by studying the literature and documents about him.

This book interests us because it is a biography that draws art lovers into a history within history, it is didactic and at the same time flows like a novel.

Patrick O’Brian, Picasso. A Biography, Longanesi, 2023 (new edition)

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The visual illiteracy of italians

“From elementary school, our children should immediately learn to ‘see’, to associate art, cinema, literature, and history.” Vincenzo Trione in Corriere della Sera, June 25, 2024

Since 2023, Studio Gariboldi has been offering the public and collectors a series of meetings and courses aimed at providing tools to approach artworks from different perspectives. In the gallery, on Thursday afternoons and Saturday mornings, once a month, original human creatures take turns for reflections and views on the world.

“One of the greatest challenges of this moment is finding an effective key to offer a more in-depth and comprehensive vision of the work of artists and the historical period in which they are situated. At the same time, to train the eye of those who visit my gallery. Whether they are students doing internships or the general public. To see, one must know how to look, and this is not taught in any school.” Giovanni Gariboldi in Italics, June 2024

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Worker, couchette attendant on night trains, graphic designer, Frédéric Pajak has known extreme poverty and, through poetry, writing, and drawing, has managed to find his rightful place in the world. The book “Van Gogh, a Biography,” translated by Nicolò Petruzzella, is a mixture of words and images, Pajak’s drawings, and the reconstruction of a special life, like all lives, but just a little more so.

We are interested in it because it is profoundly human, especially in the poignant ink drawings created by the author.

“Pajak has invented a new genre, the ‘graphic essay’. Or perhaps he didn’t invent it, but what is certain is that he has brought it to its most perfect form.” Le Nouvel Observateur

Frédéric Pajak, “Van Gogh, una biografia”, dalla serie Manifesto Incerto, L’Orma editore, 2023

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Many of us are used to taking notes during our travels, to not forget, to reflect once we return home, to collect moments. In his book Le città del mondo, Eraldo Affinati offers us his perspective and thoughts on the three hundred cities of his life. Rome and the Garden of Oranges, Tirana and the squares reminiscent of De Chirico’s paintings, Moscow and the Church of St. John the Warrior. Places that the author has visited in reality, in imagination, or has dreamed of.

This book interests us because it is a labyrinth that evokes worlds at every turn and pushes us to create just as many. Three hundred fertile pages, capable of lighting up insights and a question: How many cities are there in our lives? Just to answer that question, it would be worth picking up a pen and starting to list them.

Eraldo Affinati, Le città del mondo, Feltrinelli, 2024