Omaggio ad Aldo Mondino
from 24 February 2018 to 14 April 2018
Firenze
Mostra organizzata in collaborazione della Galleria Il Ponte in occasione di una doppia personale sull'artista nella città di Firenze
Omaggio ad Aldo Mondino
The Santo Ficara Gallery, which has followed Aldo Mondino’s work for many years, and the Il Ponte Gallery, which has assembled a significant collection of works created between 1963 and 1964, are presenting a double solo exhibition in Florence in collaboration with the Aldo Mondino Archive.
In its "Omaggio", the Santo Ficara Gallery presents works selected from its collection spanning a vast period of time, from "Ottobre russo" (1965/66) to "Applausi" (2004), touching upon the themes that most fascinated the artist’s painting: "Das Meer" (1980), "Eiffel Safari" (1989), "Turcatina" (2001), “Pittore d’insegne” (2001), “Tauromachia” (2003), “Mosaico” (2003), “Danza Sufi” (2004).
The Il Ponte gallery, on the other hand, presents only works created between 1963 and 1964/5. Grid works, monochromes, Casorati, Waves which represent, through his oblique approach to Pop Art, the artist’s first major revelation; in 1964, he exhibited precisely these works at the Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone in Turin and at Gian Tomaso Liverani’s Galleria La Salita.
As Alberto Fiz wrote a few years ago: ‘The problem is still, as ever, that of painting. […] Whatever move he makes, Mondino is able to catch us off guard, as has been the case throughout his forty-year artistic career. His is a complex game, in which the conventions of art are continually challenged. […] The Turin-based artist explores the hidden meaning of the image by capturing its unconscious nature, without renouncing an authentically decorative representation based on the idea of decoration held by Henri Matisse—an idea that Western painting has often rejected. No concessions to trends, no conceptual temptations, no need to adhere to an aesthetic model, but rather a mental journey that passes through canvas, brushes and linoleum. […] But we must not forget the fundamental element underpinning all of Mondino’s work: paradox. […] Everything shifts into another dimension, aimed at capturing the multifaceted nature of the image in the vein of Dadaism and Surrealism.”
(Alberto Fiz, Il Paradosso della pittura, Milan 2002).
BROWSE THE CATALOGUE ON ISSUU
"Homage to Aldo Mondino"
to mark the opening of the new premises of the Santo Ficara Gallery
opening Saturday 24 February at 11:00
Via Arnolfo, 6 L - 50121 Florence
info@santoficara.it - www.santoficara.it
opening hours: Monday to Saturday 9.30am–12.30pm – 3.30pm–7.30pm
"ALDO MONDINO grids and more. 1963–1972"
Galleria Il Ponte
opening Saturday 24 February at 5.00 pm
Via di Mezzo 42/B - 50121 Florence
info@galleriailponte.com - www.galleriailponte.com
opening hours 3.30 pm–7.00 pm Saturdays by appointment – closed on public holidays
In its "Omaggio", the Santo Ficara Gallery presents works selected from its collection spanning a vast period of time, from "Ottobre russo" (1965/66) to "Applausi" (2004), touching upon the themes that most fascinated the artist’s painting: "Das Meer" (1980), "Eiffel Safari" (1989), "Turcatina" (2001), “Pittore d’insegne” (2001), “Tauromachia” (2003), “Mosaico” (2003), “Danza Sufi” (2004).
The Il Ponte gallery, on the other hand, presents only works created between 1963 and 1964/5. Grid works, monochromes, Casorati, Waves which represent, through his oblique approach to Pop Art, the artist’s first major revelation; in 1964, he exhibited precisely these works at the Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone in Turin and at Gian Tomaso Liverani’s Galleria La Salita.
As Alberto Fiz wrote a few years ago: ‘The problem is still, as ever, that of painting. […] Whatever move he makes, Mondino is able to catch us off guard, as has been the case throughout his forty-year artistic career. His is a complex game, in which the conventions of art are continually challenged. […] The Turin-based artist explores the hidden meaning of the image by capturing its unconscious nature, without renouncing an authentically decorative representation based on the idea of decoration held by Henri Matisse—an idea that Western painting has often rejected. No concessions to trends, no conceptual temptations, no need to adhere to an aesthetic model, but rather a mental journey that passes through canvas, brushes and linoleum. […] But we must not forget the fundamental element underpinning all of Mondino’s work: paradox. […] Everything shifts into another dimension, aimed at capturing the multifaceted nature of the image in the vein of Dadaism and Surrealism.”
(Alberto Fiz, Il Paradosso della pittura, Milan 2002).
BROWSE THE CATALOGUE ON ISSUU
"Homage to Aldo Mondino"
to mark the opening of the new premises of the Santo Ficara Gallery
opening Saturday 24 February at 11:00
Via Arnolfo, 6 L - 50121 Florence
info@santoficara.it - www.santoficara.it
opening hours: Monday to Saturday 9.30am–12.30pm – 3.30pm–7.30pm
"ALDO MONDINO grids and more. 1963–1972"
Galleria Il Ponte
opening Saturday 24 February at 5.00 pm
Via di Mezzo 42/B - 50121 Florence
info@galleriailponte.com - www.galleriailponte.com
opening hours 3.30 pm–7.00 pm Saturdays by appointment – closed on public holidays
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