Mondino: "the king"
from 15 March 2007 to 31 May 2007
Torino
The King, 1970
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The Biasutti & Biasutti Gallery, run by Attilio Biasutti, presents a retrospective exhibition dedicated to Aldo Mondino (Turin 1938–2005), curated by Pier Paolo Benedetto. Some twenty-five works make up a retrospective that brings together a significant selection of works created between 1962 (when he was Tancredi’s assistant) and 2000, offering a comprehensive overview – from Ittiodromo and The King through to the Falsi Collages – of the career of this artist, whose first solo exhibitions date back to the early 1960s in Paris. Aldo Mondino began his highly personal artistic journey as a practitioner of the Conceptual Movement, before gradually steering his artistic exploration towards a decidedly more painterly direction. From works on hardboard, for example, to his sculptures created using ever-changing materials, right up to his return to painting, filtered through a deep fascination with the East, Africa, Morocco and India. Mondino’s poetic universe is characterised by stylistic eclecticism and a great sense of irony that pervades his entire body of work. The wordplay between titles and content is reminiscent of his famous Dancing Dervishes, presented at the 1993 Venice Biennale curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, which seem suspended in a surreal space. His work, which emerged from research linked to European conceptual experimentation, soon rediscovered a wholly personal relationship with painting. He has exhibited in major galleries and museums in Italy and abroad.
The King, 1970
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