Aldo Mondino & Lorenzo Puglisi. Le Grand Tour
from 29 June 2024 to 30 September 2024
Firenze - Bologna - Torino - Montecarlo
Aldo Mondino Lorenzo Puglisi - Le Grand Tour
For three centuries, Italy has been at the heart of a phenomenon unique in European cultural history: the Grand Tour, a journey of self-discovery and a cultural and human experience that artists from different eras undertook to experience first-hand the wealth of the arts and antiquities of our wonderful country. At the same time, this year the Tour de France cycling race will startfrom Italy for the first time in history: on 29 June, Florence will kick off ‘Le Grand Boucle’, which will also pass through the cities of Bologna (30 June) and Turin (1 July).
This extraordinary event, the most-watched sporting spectacle after the Olympics and the World Cup, provides the opportunity to stage a joint exhibition by Aldo Mondino and Lorenzo Puglisi, *Le Grand Tour*, * *, which, both ideally and physically, as great artists of the past did (Dürer, Stendhal, Goethe, Mann, to name but a few), follows the Italian stages of the race: openings on 29 June in Florence, with exhibitions ‘ ’ at the Galleria Santo Ficara, in collaboration with the Teatro Cartiere Carrara (featuring curtains created by the two artists) and at the Hotel Guelfo Bianco, and on 30 June in Bologna at Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande in collaboration with Campogrande Concept.
The second part will take place in September in Turin, and in October the Grand Tour will conclude, just like the cycling race, with a grand finale in Monte Carlo. In this spirit of exchange and interconnection, painting, travel, the new and the old give rise to a unique exhibition, original and dynamic, rich in content, differences and affinities.
EXHIBITION DETAILS
TITLE: Le Grand Tour. Aldo Mondino - Lorenzo Puglisi
Part 1 Florence / Bologna
VENUES AND DATES: 29 June / 29 September, Florence
Opening: Saturday 29 June, 11.00 am Galleria Santo Ficara, Via Arnolfo 6L
6.00 pm Hotel Guelfo Bianco, Via Cavour 26
Curated by Valerio Dehò
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 11.00–12.30 and 16.00–19.00
VENUES AND DATES: 30 June – 30 September, Bologna
Opening: Sunday 30 June, 6.00 pm Campogrande Concept - Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, Via Castiglione 7
curated by Silvia Evangelisti
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday, 11.00–12.30 and 16.00–19.00, Saturday by appointment
WhatsApp info: 3357681559
Part 2 Turin / Monte Carlo
September and October
Catalogue: Santo Ficara, with texts by Valerio Dehò and Silvia Evangelisti.
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Aldo Mondino was born in Turin in 1938, where he died in 2005. In 1959 he moved to Paris, where he attended William Heyter’s studio, the École du Louvre and the mosaic course at the Academy of Fine Arts with Severini and Licata. In 1960, upon returning to Italy, he began exhibiting at the Galleria L’Immagine in Turin (1961) and the Galleria Alfa in Venice (1962). His meeting with Gian Enzo Sperone, director of the Galleria Il Punto, proved pivotal to his artistic career, and their partnership continues to this day. Major solo exhibitions were also held at the Galleria Stein in Turin, the Studio Marconi in Milan, the Galleria La Salita in Rome, the Galleria Paludetto in Turin, and a first retrospective at the Galleria Santo Ficara in Florence (2001). Among his major exhibitions were his two participations in the Venice Biennale in 1976 and 1993, solo exhibitions at the Museum für Moderne Kunst – Palais Lichtenstein in Vienna (1991), at the Suthanamet Topkapi Museum in Istanbul (1992, 1996), at the Jewish Museum in Bologna (1995), and at the Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna in Trento (2000). He was one of the most brilliant Italian artists of the post-war period. His talent was eclectic, irreverent and fantastical, and defies comparison. A legendary figure, he was a painter set apart from other painters, a conceptualist without being conceptual, close to Arte Povera without ever being part of it, exuberant, ironic, a lover of playfulness and puns, outside of time and history, enamoured with the East and Paris yet rooted in his Piedmontese countryside. A great painter and a great sculptor, ironic, picaresque, an intellectual devoid of any arrogance, he has left a mark that is becoming increasingly significant on the international scene with each passing year.
Lorenzo Puglisi was born in Biella in 1971; he lives and works in Bologna. He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including at the CAC La Traverse in Paris (2015), the Museo Riso in Palermo (2016), the Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples (2017), The Historical Museum in Bremen (2017), Villa Bardini in Florence (2017), the Casa Boschi Di Stefano Museum in Milan (2018), the Kulturhaus in Berlin (2019), the Crypt of King’s Cross St. Pancras Church in London (2019), the Bramante Sacristy in Milan (2019), Norman Foster’s Moore House in London (2020), the Marino Marini Museum in Florence (2021). Among his major exhibitions are his participation in the Venice Biennale (2022), the Uffizi Galleries (2023), whilst in 2019 he exhibited a six-metre-long oil painting on panel depicting his vision of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper in Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death, accompanied by a monograph published by the German publisher Hatje Cantz (Berlin). In 2020, he opened an exhibition at the Basilica of Santo Spirito in Florence featuring one of his paintings, Crucifixion, displayed opposite Michelangelo’s wooden crucifix. In 2021, he held an exhibition of his works at the Latvian National Museum in Riga (Art Museum Riga Bourse) in collaboration with the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, which loaned Portrait of a Man, a masterpiece by Jacopo Robusti, known as Tintoretto. In 2022, his self-portrait entered the collection of the Uffizi Galleries. A monograph on his work, published by Skira and written by Marco Meneguzzo, is released in 2023 as a summary of his twenty-year career. In October of the same year, he stages a major exhibition in London at the Brun Fine Art gallery, with which he works and collaborates.
The Santo Ficara Gallery has been active in the art world for over 50 years, having organised over 100 solo exhibitions by artists and great masters, who were always present at the openings given their friendship and personal acquaintance with the historic gallery owner. Over the years, alongside the great masters of the 20th century—from De Pisis to Rosai, from Sironi to Guidi, from Capogrossi to Magnelli—artists with diverse backgrounds have taken their turn: Accardi, Castellani, Gilardi, Uncini, Nigro, Paolini, Alviani, Salvo, Boetti, Turcato, Mondino, Mainolfi, Chiari, Ontani, Pinelli, right up to more recent artists such as Asdrubali, Pugliese, Cacciola, D’Oora, Zazzera and Puglisi. The exhibitions are all documented in the series “Presenze in Galleria”, edited by Carlo Cambi.
The Teatro Cartiere Carrara, Florence’s new theatre inaugurated in 2002 on the site of the old, glorious Teatro Tenda, has become a major cultural landmark and is home to a unique collection of “artist-designed curtains” commissioned from Italian artists since 2005: the first artist was Aldo Mondino himself, followed by artists such as Carla Accardi, Getulio Alviani, Mimmo Paladino, Nicola De Maria, Pino Pinelli, Luigi Mainolfi, Fabrizio Plessi, right up to the latest one created in 2023 by Lorenzo Puglisi.
The Hotel Il Guelfo Bianco is a boutique hotel housed in a 15th-century building in the centre of Florence. The original antique furnishings blend with a prestigious collection of contemporary artworks, including pieces by Festa, Dorazio, Corpora, Turcato, Carmassi, Perilli, Mondino and Fontana, amongst others.
Campogrande Concept organises exhibitions and events in the family palace, Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, a historic building situated in the centre of Bologna, now also a branch of the Pinacoteca Nazionale where part of the Zambeccari Picture Gallery is on display—the only aristocratic Bolognese collection to have survived almost intact to this day, featuring works by artists such as Donato Creti, Giovanni Maria Crespi, Titian, Ludovico Carracci, Guercino and Palma il Giovane.
Aldo Mondino Lorenzo Puglisi - Le Grand Tour
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