Aldo Mondino
from 6 March 2025 to 19 April 2025
Torino
Aldo Mondino
The Biasutti & Biasutti gallery presents an exhibition dedicated to Aldo Mondino (Turin 1938–2005), twenty years after his death. An anthology of works created between 1961 and 1989, such as *Souvenir d’Ittiodrom* (1969) and *Modern Collage* (1971), with their punning titles, the ironic Hotel de Lille (1982), and d’apres Millet and Millet non più Millet from 1984, which refer to the figure of Jean-François Millet, the French Realist painter. The retrospective is enriched by bronze sculptures such as Viola d’amore, an open viola case resting on a bench that seems almost to take on a human form, Araba Phoenix and Singe, the latter created using the frame of a Singer sewing machine. Mondino, by omitting the final consonant of the well-known mechanical symbol, transforms the term into Singe, which in French means ‘monkey’. His experimentation with materials continues with La lira (1989), another wooden sculpture created during his stay in Africa. Every painting or sculpture, fragment or word encapsulates the experience, curiosity and ongoing exploration cultivated between Rome, Paris and Malindi.
A tribute to one of the most talented figures Italian art has produced in the second half of the 20th century. Aldo Mondino is pure irony, never banal, intelligent and elegant.
Aldo Mondino
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