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Where the unmeasurable meets the measurable. Alan Bee, Paolo Iacchetti, Tomas Rajlich, Nanni Valentini
Group show with Alan Bee, Paolo Iacchetti, Tomas Rajlich and Nanni Valentini 17 Jan - 13 Mar 2020 Group show with Alan Bee, Paolo Iacchetti, Tomas Rajlich and Nanni Valentini. Curated by Flaminio Gualdoni Keep reading -
Nanni Valentini | The interspace between the visible and the tactile
Anthological exhibition dedicated to Nanni Valentini 5 Oct 2019 - 5 Jan 2020 ABC-ARTE is dedicating a large retrospective to the three-dimensional work of Nanni Valentini (1932-1985), one of the most singular and lively personalities in the artistic explorations of the postwar period. The title ‘The space between the visible and the tactile’ is taken from a text by the artist published in 1975. Keep reading -
Absolute Painting. Giorgio Griffa, Tomas Rajlich and Jerry Zeniuk
Group show with Griffa, Rajlich and Zeniuk in ABC-ARTE 3 May - 10 Sep 2019 At 18:30 hrs on Friday 3 May the ABC-ARTE Gallery will inaugurate with the patronge of Genoa Municipality, a large-scale exhibition with works by Giorgio Griffa, Tomas Rajlich and Jerry Zeniuk, entitled Absolute Painting. It presents a fundamental nucleus of works that bear witness to the development of three relevant artists from the Analitycal Painting. Keep reading
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Other Identity
Altre forme di identità culturali e pubbliche - seconda edizione 9 - 23 Mar 2019 Mostra collettiva, evento internazionale d’arte contemporanea (Fotografia - Installazioni - New Media Art - Videoarte - Electronic Music), con il patrocinio della Regione Liguria e Comune di Genova. Keep reading -
Carlo Nangeroni. The domain of light
Solo show di Carlo Nangeroni in ABC-ARTE 26 Oct 2018 - 16 Feb 2019 At 18:30 hrs on Friday 26 October the ABC-ARTE Gallery will inaugurate with the patronge of Genoa Municipality, a large-scale exhibition of the work of Carlo Nangeroni, entitled The Domain of Light. It presents a fundamental nucleus of works that bear witness to the development of a singular abstract language based on the rhythmic and luminous modulations of circular figures. Keep reading -
Tomas Rajlich | Fifty years of Painting
Anthological exhibition of Tomas Rajlich in ABC-ARTE 4 May - 15 Sep 2018 On Friday May 4th ABC-ARTE gallery opens a wide exhibition dedicated to Tomas Rajlich, to celebrate his half a century of painting. Works made between the Sixties and today will be exposed, a proper selection to show the audience a complete vision over his career. Keep reading
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Añil
Luca Serra, curated by Flaminio Gualdoni 26 Jan - 14 Apr 2018 On Friday, January 26 at 6:30pm, ABC-ARTE is pleased to present 'Añil', Luca Serra's exhibition, Italian artist who has chosen to live in Spain for many years. The new exhibition,... Keep reading -
Clinamen
Isabella Nazzarri curated by Daniele Capra and critical contribution by Leonardo Caffo 26 Oct 2017 - 5 Jan 2018 On Thursday, October 26 at 6:30pm, ABC-ARTE is pleased to present 'Clinamen', Isabella Nazzarri's first exhibition in the gallery. The exhibition, curated by Daniele Capra, features over twenty works synthesizing... Keep reading -
Shelters and Libraries
Adalberto Abbate, Gaetano Cunsolo e Davide D'Elia curated by Pietro Gaglianò 22 Jun - 6 Oct 2017 On Thursday June 22nd, at 6.30pm, with the artists and curator, ABC-ARTE will open Shelters and Libraries, collective exhibition of Adalberto Abbate, Gaetano Cunsolo and Davide D'Elia, curated by Pietro... Keep reading
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Bernard Aubertin pictorial situation of red
Works from sixties and seventies 10 Mar - 15 May 2017 Friday 10th March at 6.30 p.m., ABC -ARTE inaugurates the personal exhibition of Bernard Aubertin. The exhibition is curated by Flaminio Gualdoni with a critical contribution by Dominique Stella and... Keep reading -
Isabella Nazzarri | VITA DELLE FORME
curata da Ivan Quaroni 3 Dec 2016 - 11 Jan 2017 Isabella Nazzarri | Vita delle forme Curated by Ivan Quaroni. On Saturday December the 3rd 2016, 6.30 pm, C2 Contemporanea opens, in collaboration with ABC-ARTE, the new solo exhibition by... Keep reading -
MATTEO NEGRI | PIANO PIANO
curated by Alberto Fiz - Critical contribution by Lorenzo Bruni 11 Nov 2016 - 3 Feb 2017 ABC-ARTE opens the new solo exhibition by Matteo Negri: “Piano Piano / Slowly but Surely” curated by Alberto Fiz and with a critical essay by Lorenzo Bruni Keep reading
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UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE curated by Ivan Quaroni
THE ABSTRACTION AFTER THE ABSTRACTION 14 Jun - 23 Sep 2016 Uncertainty Principle, curated by Ivan Quaroni . Paolo Bini, Isabella Nazzarri , Matteo Negri, Patrick Tabarelli , Viviana Valla and Giulio Zanet. ABC-ARTE , Genova Italy. Six artists of the Millennium generation rethink the code of abstract representation, occupying the Genoa's art gallery spaces with polysemous signs and gestures, between expanded painting, sculpture and environmental installation.
Uncertainty principle studies the birth of a new abstract and polysemous sensitivity, expressed through a variety of mediums: painting, sculpture and installation, in discontinuity with the classic abstraction codes, geometrical, informal or analytical. The curator Ivan Quaroni identified six artists, born between 1979 and 1987, who developed a mainly aniconic language, even if there are cases where the relationship with figurative styles haven’t been completely cut off. What distinguishes this group of artists is the recognition of the basic ambiguity of visual language and, therefore, the final dismissal of the dichotomy between abstraction and representation, a legacy from the past.
In 1986, the American abstract painter Jonathan Lasker wrote: “I’m seeking subject matter, not abstraction.” Lasker thought Abstraction was dead with Frank Stella's Black Paintings, so he imagined painting as representing marginal topics like memory, presence, matter, transcendence and the mix between high and low art. In addition to these topics, felt as crucial nowadays, the post-abstraction by the Millennials, shaped by the exponential growing of information and digital technology, reflects on the individual’s position during image creation and fruition processes.
The channels and timings of perception in painting (as well as in sculpture and installation), was a central matter in the avant-garde research by Zero Group and Azimut and analytical painters during the Seventies. What appears as a distinctive factor in these studies is that they all come from individual experiences.
The title Uncertainty principle refers to the epistemological consequences of Heisemberg’s theory in scientific research. It becomes an excuse to underline the radical subjectivity of the artistic studies by the Y generation and, at the same time, it highlights how this subjectivity crosses codified limitations, to get into a syntactic and casual, ambiguous and undetermined dimension.
Paolo Bini (Battipaglia, 1984) translates physical and mental landscapes in abstract chromatic units, based on pixels and scanner or plotter timings. The artist paints on paper strips, then mounted on boards and canvases (or walls), to create images characterized by a parallel, rhythmical and chromatic partition. With paintings, installations and paint-sculptures, Bini builds a lyrical and personal variation of pattern painting, where geometrical precision and gestural urgency of abstract expressionism coexist peacefully. The works by Isabella Nazzarri (Livorno, 1987) are inspired by phyto-morphic and anato-morphic forms. Using an organic and perpetually changing alphabet, she expresses memories, intuitions and mental images, incomprehensible in any other way. The artist gets inspiration from the classification of anatomical and herbal tables to build a world of evocative and fluctuating pictograms, obtained crossing mental structures with natural morphologies. For this occasion, Nazzarri realized a big mural painting on the gallery ceiling, a concentric and crowded genesis of alien organisms, echoing the codified forms of her great canvas paintings and watercolor papers. Matteo Negri’s (San Donato Milanese, 1982) research focuses on plastic substances in an eclectic way, in combination with stone and ceramic, metal and resin, creating pop shapes and colors for an immediate expressive efficiency. His varied production centers on the division between form and meaning, a short circuit of aesthetic content and substance. This is the case of Kamigami Box, big irregular boxes showing internal surfaces covered with mirroring steel. The surfaces reflect the Lego constructions on the sculpture’s base ad infinitum, giving the impression of a limitless urban settlement. Together with a new Kamigami, the artist shows a piece of furniture, containing many, small unexpected surprises. The mechanisms of creation and image fruition are at the center of Patrick Tabarelli’s (Verona, 1979) work.
His works drive the observer towards a kind of perceptive uncertainty, thanks to their formal ambiguity. His paintings are made of flat, almost digital surfaces, or are crossed by dynamic and minimal oscillations, in contrast with the gestural origins of his style. Recently, his works focused on the construction of drawing machines, digital hardware and software for the production of surfaces, which look like hand-painted. So, the ambiguity between author and work emerges once again. Viviana Valla (Voghera, 1986) elaborates the language of geometrical abstraction through unconventional substances, like recovery papers, post-it, scotch and fragments of printed images. She invents an intimate dimension with the realization of a mysterious and enigmatic visual diary. Her works are partially hidden by various layers of acrylic chalk and develop a geometrical structure monochromatically imperfect, where clear areas alternate with surfaces showing how
color dissolves into brushes and fragmentary modules. Giulio Zanet (Colleretto Castelnuovo, 1984) reports moments of everyday life, reflections and considerations over the nature of experience, without using recognizable forms or narrative approaches. His pictorial language is based on a process of formal abstraction: it is impossible to objectify thoughts ad emotions. His works show uncertain shapes, segments, repetitions. The locked motif of decoration is fused with a free and gestural, rough and imperfect disposition. These shapes find a vital expressive impulse in its fragile balance between rules and transgression. In the exhibition, there are many works breaking the picture’s usual structure, invading the gallery walls and floors, like fragments of an expanded painting located into the environmental space.
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Matteo Negri | Splendid Villa with Garden, Charming Views
curated by Daniele Capra, Casa Testori, Novate Milanese. 21 May - 15 Oct 2016 Matteo Negri Splendid villa with garden, charming views Curated by Daniele Capra Six site specific pieces of sculpture for the ground floor and garden of the house in Novate Milanese.... Keep reading -
Yasuo Sumi | NOTHING BUT THE FUTURE
Yasuo Sumi solo show curated by Flaminio Gualdoni 18 Feb - 27 May 2016 In 2008 ABC-ARTE organized and promoted the perfomance by Master Shozo Shimamoto at Palazzo Ducale and his exhibition, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, at the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Villa Croce in Genoa.
Now, ABC-ARTE will inaugurate the exhibition Yasuo Sumi | Nothing but the future, curated by Flaminio Gualdoni. Keep reading
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Giulio Zanet | Still Nothing
Giulio Zanet, curated by Ivan Quaroni 12 - 30 Jan 2016 ABC-ARTE Contemporary art gallery, in partnership with MARYLING, continues the series of exhibitions by young and emerging contemporary artists in the multi-purpose space, Piazza Gae Aulenti 1 inaugurated in July. The fifth planned exhibition, proposed by ABC-ARTE and organised by Ivan Quaroni, will open on Friday January 12th: Still Nothing by the artist Giulio Zanet Keep reading -
Matteo Negri | Multiplicity
Matteo Negri, curated by Ivan Quaroni 2 - 29 Dec 2015 ABC-ARTE Contemporary art gallery, in partnership with MARYLING, continues the series of exhibitions by young and emerging contemporary artists in the multi-purpose space, Piazza Gae Aulenti 1 inaugurated in July. The fourth planned exhibition, proposed by ABC-ARTE and curated by Ivan Quaroni, will open on Wednesday December 2nd: Multiplicity by the artist Matteo Negri. Keep reading -
Sight Unseen
Viviana Valla: solo show, curated by Ivan Quaroni 28 Oct - 20 Nov 2015 ABC-ARTE Contemporary art gallery, in partnership with MARYLING, continues the series of exhibitions by young and emerging contemporary artists in the multi-purpose space, Piazza Gae Aulenti 1 inaugurated in July. The third planned exhibition, proposed by ABC-ARTE and organised by Ivan Quaroni, will open on Wednesday October 28th: Sight Unseen by the artist Viviana Valla Keep reading
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Giorgio Griffa - To relieve the world
Giorgio Griffa: solo Show, curated by Ivan Quaroni 8 Oct 2015 - 15 Jan 2016 To relieve the world, solo show with the patronage of Genoa Municipality, is the homage to Giorgio Griffa by ABC-ARTE Gallery
The title is a philosophical concept deduced from Arnold Gehlen.
The exhibition, curated by Ivan Quaroni, shows twenty works dated from 1968 to 1978, a crucial period full of important discoveries and experiments. Keep reading -
Ubiquity
Patrick Tabarelli, curated by Ivan Quaroni 17 Sep - 10 Oct 2015 ABC-ARTE Contemporary art gallery, in partnership with MARYLING, continues the series of exhibitions by young and emerging contemporary artists in the multi-purpose space, Piazza Gae Aulenti 1 inaugurated in July. The second planned exhibition, proposed by ABC-ARTE and curated by Ivan Quaroni, will open on Tuesday September 8th: Ubiquity by the artist Patrick Tabarelli. Keep reading -
Behind the visible
Paolo Bini solo show, curated by Ivan Quaroni 16 Jul - 30 Aug 2015 External Exhibition on MARYLING space at 1, Square Gae Aulenti - Milano, opens the doors to the exhibitions of young and emerging artists, already known in the field of contemporary art. The first planned exhibition, proposed by ABC-ARTE and organised by Ivan Quaroni, will open on Thursday July 16th: Behind the visible by the artist Paolo Bini. Keep reading
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All that's missing is you
Mauro Vignando: solo show, curated by Milovan Farronato 2 Jul - 25 Sep 2015 Mauro Vignando: solo show curated by Milovan Farronato. Can the subject’s disappearance create an image? Can the loss of an emotion or an object and the consequent confusion make the landscape free, more than a simple background? These are some of the questions faced by “All That’s Missing Is You”, solo exhibition by the artist Mauro Vignando (Pordenone, 1969) at the ABC-ARTE gallery, Genoa. Keep reading -
The painting itself
Ulrich Erben, Claude Viallat and Pino Pinelli. Curated by Dominique Stella 18 Apr - 12 Jun 2015 When painting itself becomes the object of painting, it is not aimed to represent, evoke or express anymore. Its only aim is itself and the fact it does exists on its own as applied, contrasted colour, as substance bringing light, shade and tone on the canvas or any other support able to show it up. Painting is defined through its own purposes, it is not a medium anymore. It has become content itself. Keep reading -
LIGHT TREK - Nanda Vigo /works 1963 - 2014
Nanda Vigo: solo Show, curated by Dominique Stella 10 Nov 2014 - 13 Feb 2015 This show returns to major themes Nanda Vigo has worked on during her career, from her earliest works in the 1960s (Chronotops) to her most recent (Deep Space), the first variations of which she showed in 2013. The title "LIGHT TREK" suggests the trajectory of light that has always guided her and which is represented in the exhibition by four emblematic works. Keep reading
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Against Parmenides
Curated by Ivan Quaroni, it will feature Agostino Bergamaschi, Andrea Bruschi and Francesca Schgor. 19 Sep - 31 Oct 2014 Our exhibition's program continues with a brief exchange between historicized artists and new generations, presenting "Against Parmenides": open from September 25th to October 31st and curated by Ivan Quaroni, it will feature Agostino Bergamaschi, Andrea Bruschi and Francesca Schgor. Keep reading -
Duepuntiacapo
Massimo Kaufmann, Shozo Shimamoto, Hermann Nitsch, Yang Maoyuan e Matteo Negri 5 Jun - 11 Jul 2014 In this collective, works from the recent past of ABC-ARTE will dialogue with works related to the latter years of the gallery at the new offices in Via XX Settembre, 11A. Keep reading -
Un pallino in testa
Massimo Kaufmann, Garbriele Picco, Roberto Pietrosanti e Matteo Negri 17 Dec 2013 - 27 Feb 2014 Four artists, united by the repeated use of the geometry of the circle on an abstract space, in a close dialogue that has taken place among orthogonal signs, perpetual volumes and modular portions in relief, express their creativity in a free choice of colors and different formal solutions. Keep reading
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Matteo Negri / IN LOVE
Public art 17 Jul - 15 Oct 2013 Public art Keep reading -
A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again
A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again / Exhibition catalogue with critical reviews by Viana Conti, Milovan Farronato, arch. Carlo Berio, Gerardo Bonomo and an interview with Luca Fiore 21 Dec 2012 - 9 Jun 2013 The title of the Matteo Negri solo show, in ABC-ARTE, quotes the corrosive reportage by David Foster Wallace about the typology of the average American man's holidays in the Caribbean.
There is a strong playful component in the work by Matteo Negri (Milan 1982), which goes from sculpture, art installations and photography, together with an intense thinking of the human subject form childhood to the adult age. This work is completed by an eclectic selection of plastic substances, ceramics, bronze and resin. Keep reading -
A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again
Public art 18 Dec 2012 - 30 Jun 2013 In collaboration with the Municipality of Genoa, ABC-ARTE, directed by Antonio Borghese, presentsed the placement of three sculptures by Matteo Negri, in three of the main genoese crossroad. Keep reading
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Colors on Stage
Shozo Shimamoto, Hermann Nitsch, Georges Mathieu, Marcello Lo Giudice, Yang Maoyuan 19 Jun - 2 Dec 2012 Colors on stage pointed the attention on great storicized avant-guard artists, such as Shozo Shimamoto, Hermann Nitsch, George Mathieu and contemporary artists like Marcello Lo Giudice, Yang Maoyuan, celebrating the spectacular use of the pigment and colours
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Yang Maoyuan / A LOULAN CITIZEN
Yang Maoyuan solo show 1 Oct 2011 - 17 May 2012 Antonio Borghese's ABC-ARTE, after opening with Marcello Lo Giudice / EARTH ARTIST, presented the second exhibition in its new expositive space in via XX settembre, Genoa: Yang Maoyuan / A LOULAN CITIZEN. Keep reading -
Marcello Lo Giudice / EARTH ARTIST
Marcello Lo Giudice: solo show 27 May - 18 Oct 2011 Antonio Borghese's ABC-ARTE was pleased to disclose its new expositive space with the exhibition: Marcello Lo Giudice / EARTH ARTIST.
ABC-ARTE's new and prestigious expositive space (almost 300 sq.m) is at the first floor of the building of the Consolation church convent, which also houses the Oriental Market, and it overlooks, by an old window lined balcony, on Via XX Settembre. Keep reading
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Shozo Shimamoto / Samurai, acrobat of the sight
Shozo Shimamoto solo show 13 Nov 2008 - 8 Mar 2009 From 13rd November 2008 to 8th March 2009, Villa Croce Contemporary Art Museum hosted a personal exhibition dedicated to the Japanese artist Shozo Shimamoto. The initiative curator is Achille Bonito Oliva, and the project was organized by Antonio Borghese. Keep reading -
Shozo Shimamoto / PERFORMANCE PALAZZO DUCALE
Organized by ABC-ARTE and Antonio Borghese 13 Nov 2008 On Novembre 13rd 2008, at 2.00 o' clock, Genoa Palazzo Ducale became the set of spectacular performance by japaneese Master Shozo Shimamoto, organized by ABC-ARTE. Keep reading -
Marco Lodola/ LIGHTSHIP TO LODOLA
Marco Lodola solo show 14 Jun - 15 Oct 2007 From 14th June to 15th September 2007, the prestigious Galatian Maritime Museum hosted an exhibition by Pavia artist, Marco Lodola, who showcased his most important works: from his first, luminous perspex from the 1980s right up to his present-day pieces, dedicated to the sea and the maritime world. Keep reading
