Galleria Monopoli is pleased to host Alan Bee's first solo exhibition in Milan. The initiative follows the very recent, prestigious solo exhibition dedicated to the artist by the museum of the Benedictine Abbey of Montecassiano
The opening of Alan Bee's solo exhibition, curated by Flaminio Gualdoni, will be held on Thursday, Nov. 23, from 6 p.m.
An enigmatic (only his pseudonym is known) and talented artist who passed away a few years ago, Bee left behind a repertoire of works of remarkable quality, at the basis of which lies his great and profound interest in the life of bees, of which he took up not only the iterative graphic motif that can also be fruitfully used in pictorial construction, but also the idea of a compact and solidary community, in which iron organization is wedded to the founding value of freedom.
Over the years, Alan Bee has illuminated many crucial aspects of civic living: solidarity and opposition to all oppression between individuals, gender equality, the rejection of war and all violence.
His dense and powerful painting, in which color is really matter but at the same time symbolic capacity, takes up and elaborates in a wholly original and new way certain insights from European informal art.
The exhibition presents fifteen or so paintings, some of them large in size, which allow the viewer to enter into a profound attunement with Bee's emotional and formal world.
The initiative has an introductory text in the catalog by Flaminio Gualdoni, who with Luca Bochicchio recently gave to the presses for ABC-Arte, Genoa-Milan, the monograph Alan Bee, published by Silvana Editoriale.
