Before starting the taking down operations of the Rosso e Grigio exhibition, Hélène de Franchis wanted to record a story of her from the exhibition, grant her one last visit to share it with all those who would have liked to see her in person. A small “homemade” video that we hope you will enjoy. WATCH THE VIDEO
Vincenzo Castella tells how the exhibition project of the new exhibition MIMESIS – 3rd Stone From The Sun was born.
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Saturday 6 February 2021 Marco Meneguzzo was at Studio la Città as curator of the Rosso e Grigio exhibition. During the meeting Marco Meneguzzo highlighted the role that these two materials have had in the course of the history of art, starting from the origins and up to the present day. WATCH THE FULL VIDEO
A Poem is a City is a short film by Tracey Snelling and Arthur Debert, produced by Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Set to a narration of Charles Bukowski’s A Poem is a City, Snelling becomes a character in her mini cityscapes… WATCH THE FILM
The photographer Vincenzo Castella is among the winners of the “Strategia Fotografia 2020” competition promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity (DGCC) of the Ministry for cultural heritage and activities and for tourism (MiBACT).
Exibart has published an article on the exhibition entitled Rosso e Grigio currently set up at Studio la Città. Read the article
Tracey Snelling has been awarded the 2020 Foundwork Artist Prize, the annual juried award to recognize outstanding practice by contemporary artists.
Her work “Lost Year Motel” was presented for the first time in the spaces of Studio la Città on the occasion of the exhibition La Musée 2, which ended on 21 November 2020.
Studio la Città takes part of ArtVerona Digital, which will be held on the Artshell platform with three events:
DIGITAL BLACK 27 Novembre 2020
DIGITAL YELLOW from 4 to 14 December 2020
DIGITAL WHITE from 5 December 2020 to 10 January 2021
Several artworks from Michael Najjar‘s acclaimed “outer space” series, including a 15 meters wide projection of the video “orbital cascade_57 – 46“, are featured in the exhibition “The New Classic of Mountains and Seas” at Zhejiang Museum in Hangzhou , China until 29 Novembre 2020.
We are pleased to announce that from December 2020 Studio la Città will represent Angela Caputi in the Verona area.
Giorgia Severi is among the twenty Italian and international artists present in the show Tree Time, which will be open from 30 October 2020 until 30 May 2021 at MUSE, Trento.
LA TRANCE
A short film about life during Shutdown in Los Angeles, with artwork by Brian Alfred inspired by photographs by Ben Radatz, featuring music by Four Tet.
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Hiroyuki Masuyama is one of the artists in the exhibition True Fictions. Fotografia visionaria dagli anni ’70 ad oggi, the first retrospective exhibition ever held in Italy of staged photography. The exhibition opens at the Palazzo Magnani Foundation (RE) on 17 October 2020 and will end on 28 March 2021.
The Certosa di San Giacomo in Capri host the show Fons vitae by Antonio Ievolella, installed in the small and large cloisters of the Chapel of San Bruno. The exhibition is open from 11 October to 30 November 2020.
Michael Najjar is one of the artists who are part of the new exhibition at the Gallerie d’Italia in Vicenza entitled FUTURO | Arte e società dagli anni Sessanta a domani, conceived and curated by Luca Beatrice and Walter Guadagnini with the patronage of the Comune di Vicenza.
Andreco is one of the ten internationally renowned artists who are intervened in dialogue with each other and with the landscape of the Villa Borghese Park on the occasion of the Back to nature exhibition, a path of installations that, from 15 September to 13 December 2020, involves some corners of the ancient garden, the great green lung of Rome.
The photographs by Massimo Vitali will be on display at the MEF – Ettore Fico Museum, starting on Friday 25 September 2020. The exhibition will include more than 30 works, chosen from the production of his last twenty-five years.
Massimo Vitali. Costellazioni umane, curated by Andrea Busto | MEF Museo Ettore Fico – via Francesco Cigna 114 – Turin | in collaboration with Mazzoleni, London – Torino | 25 September – 20 December 2020
Studio la Città continues with its collaboration with the city museums, in particular with the Museo di Castelvecchio. This time the protagonist of the collaboration is the installation by the artist from Athens Costas Varotsos, titled Orizzonte, a work from 1996 in iron and glass that the artist, habituated to working in large and often natural spaces, has decided to place in the castle gardens.
Arthur Duff is taking part in the fourteenth edition of Meccaniche della Meraviglia, a cultural manifestation directed by Albano Morandi who has involved eight artists of national and international fame, and who has asked them to intervene with installations and site-specific works in various areas of the city of Brescia and of Puegnago del Garda.
Giorgia Severi is one of the four artists who are part of Nature Inquiete, a collective show that opens on 4 September 2020 in the Church of Santa Maria dell’Angelo in Faenza. The exhibition is organized by the Diocesan Museum of Faenza and curated by Giovanni Giardini. The site-specific installation About The Creation was created for the apse of the Church of Santa Maria dell’Angelo in Faenza for this landscape exhibition.
In October Studio la Città will be opening its new series of exhibitions with the show La Musée 2 – a group show curated by Azad Asifovich and organised in collaboration with the Galerie Italienne, Paris – which brings together fourteen female artists of international renown, and that for the stop in Italy has been augmented with some new works. In fact the long term aim of the show is to become an itinerant exhibition, to be proposed for a tour that will touch on various venues, enlarged at times while keeping intact its intent. The opening date, scheduled for October 10, 2020, could be postponed to 2021 due to the current health situation based on the evolution of the pandemic from Covid-19.
Luigi Carboni and Marco Neri are among the nine artists, of three different generations, presented within the exhibition: DISTANZIAMENTI: until 27 September 2020 at the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Ascoli Piceno. The issue of distance, physical and symbolic, is addressed through possible contemporary pictorial research.
Hiroyuki Masuyama will show his lightboxes in a solo exhibition set up at high altitude. The Messner Mountain Museum in Firmian will host: Growing Mountains, an exhibition created in collaboration with Studio la Città, which can be visited from 5 July 2020. Messner Mountain Museum Firmian | until 8 November 2020.
Nine Sicilian artists agreed to the invitation of Davide Bramante and Aldo Premoli, respectively front man and curator of this exhibition in order to show their works in the magnificent Tina di Lorenzo Theater, in Noto (Sicily). The theater had never accepted exhibitions before: it did so exceptionally this summer 2020 in the face of a program interrupted due to the Covid-19. Foyer Davide Bramante & Friends. I nuovi siciliani, from 17 July until 7 September 2020 | www.sansebastianocontemporary.it
On the occasion of the anniversary for Studio la Città’s 50 years of activity, Artnet publishes an interview with Hélène de Franchis in which the gallery owner talks about her story and reveals the content of the video created to celebrate the most important moments of hes career.
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Studio la Città is pleased to announce that the artist Jacob Hashimoto has been selected by the Guerrieri Rizzardi winery for the creation of the Clos Roareti label – 2017: the tenth bottled vintage on the market produced in 13,333 numbered bottles. Click here for more information
Michael Najjar‘s next space journey, on Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic shuttle, was documented by Federica Lavarini in an article published on May 17 in the insert La Lettura of Il Corriere della Sera.
Started from an idea by the gallery dealers Hélène de Franchis (Studio la Città, Verona), Alessandro Pron (Galerie Italienne, Paris), and by the critic Marco Meneguzzo, together with the fundamental support of Angelo Martini, director of the auction house of the same name in Brescia, the AIUTIAMO GLI ARTISTI/LET’S HELP THE ARTISTS project is an auction that will take place from 15 to 21 June 2020.
Follow the new #PILLOLE project on our social media networks: a virtual way to explore the exhibition Vetro, this time through the voice of the artists! The posts will be released every Monday and Friday at 11 am.
Monday 11 May 2020: Pillola#1, Stuart Arends
Friday 15 May 2020: Pillola#2, Luigi Carboni
Monday 18 May 2020: Pillola#3, Marcela Cernadas
Friday 22 May 2020: Pillola#4, Alberto Garutti
Monday 25 May 2020: Pillola#5, Herbert Hamak
Friday 29 May 2020: Pillola#6, Paolo Icaro
Monday 1 June 2020: Pillola#7, Igino Legnaghi
Friday 5 June 2020: Pillola#8, Esther Mathis
Monday 8 June 2020: Pillola#9, Roberto Pugliese
Friday 12 June 2020: Pillola#10, Costas Varotsos
Monday 15 June 2020: Pillola#11, Giorgio Vigna
Starting from May, 19 – 2020, Studio la Città will be opening a solo show of recent works by Massimiliano Gatti, a photographer who for years has moved between Italy and the Middle East in the footsteps of important archaeological missions.
Studio la Città was supposed to open the VETRO (GLASS) exhibition on 21 March 2020. The Covid emergency forced us to close the doors of our gallery and to postpone the opening. Despite this, Studio la Città does not stop and offers the opportunity to admire the exhibition thanks to a special “virtual guided tour”. WATCH THE VIDEO
Our artist David Leverett died on April 20th of Corona virus in London. Artribune dedicates an article to him, retracing his life and career with the memory of Hélène de Franchis. Read the complete article HERE
Galerie Italienne open on May 11 – 2020 the exhibition: “La Musée”, a group show which brings together eleven internationally renowned female artists, on a proposal from the young Azerbaijani curator Azad Asifovich. For this occasion, Studio la Città collaborated with the loan of some works by the Indian Hema Upadhyay. Galerie Italienne, 15, rue du Louvre – Paris
In this video-documentary, Jacob Hashimoto reveals to the public, directly from his New York studio, the creative realization of his first bicycle, conceived in collaboration with the amazing bicycle framebuilder Dario Pegoretti within the Ciavete project. WATCH THE VIDEO
In this interesting video Jacob Hashimoto reflect about his beautiful room-sized installations inspired by Minecraft. See the FULL VIDEO!
The National Academy of San Luca, due to the extremely serious situation in which the country is facing, launches the #DaiUnSegno fundraising campaign in favor of Civil Protection. More than 100 Italian artists and architects donate their own work: participate in the draw by paying one or more shares of 50 euros. Click on the image to find out more!
What I did not sell…
50 Years. A Story.
Curated by Marco Meneguzzo
December, 7 – 2019 > February 15 – 2020
Opening: December, 7 – 2019 at 11:30 am | Studio la Città – Verona
7 December 2019 will be an important date for Studio la Città: it will be fifty years since the gallery was opened and its founder, Hélène de Franchis, has decided to celebrate the event with a curious show, with a purposely provocative title.
The new resin works by Herbert Hamak are permanently exhibited at the Nespresso store created inside the ultra-modern Aventura Mall – Miami. Installation made by Ars Movendi – Firenze. Aventura Mall | 19501 Biscayne Boulevard, AVENTURA, FL – USA
McDonald’s opens its new Chicago headquarters in the West Loop neighborhood. A project that combines design and culture, which intends to embrace today’s changes in work and lifestyles. Inside the building stands a huge waterfall of colored kites: a suspended installation by our artist Jacob Hasimoto, tailor-made to welcome visitors in the atrium of the new building. Ph. credit: Garrett Rowland
