Three-year Milano: the exhibition 'Italian Painting Today' opens today.

Three-year Milano: the exhibition 'Italian Painting Today' opens today.

Three-year Milano presents from 25 October 2023 to 11 February 2024 the exhibition Italian painting today, curated by Damiano Gullì, curator for contemporary art and public programs at the Triennale, with an exhibition project by Studio Italo Rota.
The exhibition, whose title takes up the volume of the same name published by Multhipla/Giancarlo Politi in 1975, is dedicated to contemporary Italian painting and brings together the work of 120 of the most interesting Italian artists, born between 1960 and 2000.

In the year of the Triennale centenary celebrations Milano, Italian painting today is ideally linked to the history of the institution, taking up the suggestions of the exhibitions of mural painting, organized in the Palazzo dell'Arte starting from 1933, and those of Luciano Baldessari's installation for the 9th International Exhibition of 1951. In this way you want to highlight how the painting has been the subject of analysis and exhibition rendering by Triennale since its foundation, in a lively dialogue between disciplines. Stefano Boeri, President of Triennale Milano, states: “After the renovated Museum of Italian Design and the Home Sweet Home exhibition, we present a third exhibition project designed for the year of the centenary of the Triennale: a major exhibition on the state of contemporary Italian painting, which starts from the recovery of the history of institution and which also becomes an opportunity for a reading of the contemporary art panorama, through the expressive language of painting.”
Damiano Gullì, curator of the exhibition, declares: “Italian painting today was born from years of research, studio visits and meetings, human and professional, with artists throughout Italy. The scene that emerged is extraordinarily lively. Triennale, connecting to its history, thus accepts the challenge of presenting it in its complexity, offering the opportunity for an analysis of this scene with the aim of promoting and enhancing it in our country and in the world."
Italian painting today highlights richness and complexity of Italian painting in all its declinations and facets, from disciplinary contaminations and shifts to the rereading and distortion of traditional techniques and iconographies up to an "expanded painting" that goes beyond the support/canvas to "invade" spaces and surfaces.

Single representative exempla have been identified in the exhibition, through a work by artist, created between 2020 and 2023, capable of offering transversal views, readings and original interpretations of our contemporaneity. The result was an intergenerational mapping, a prismatic restitution of the multiple facets of painting today. The time period taken into consideration has seen exceptional historical, social and economic transformations and upheavals - from the pandemic to the war to the feared crisis and disappearance of authorship due to the advanced applications of artificial intelligence - the direct consequences of which and indirect, can be seen in many of the works on display.

The exhibition is divided into a journey in which 119 works by artists of different generations are exhibited, including, to name just a few, Stefano Arienti, Francesca Banchelli, Lorenza Boisi, Pierpaolo Campanini, Guglielmo Castelli, Adelaide Cioni, Chiara Enzo, Paolo Gonzato, Giulia Mangoni, Beatrice Marchi, Margherita Manzelli, Pietro Moretti, Maria Morganti, Francis Offman , Jem Perucchini, Alessandro Pessoli, Aronne Pleuteri, Nazzarena Poli Maramotti, Pietro Roccasalva, Alice Visentin.
The exhibition project by Studio Italo Rota proposes an open modular system in which to move freely between the works, not ordered according to chronological criteria but placed side by side in a dynamic combinatorial game, accommodating continuous shifts from figuration to abstraction, and vice versa, highlighting how the boundaries between these two polarities are today fluid, porous and, in some ways, interchangeable. Some artists were also invited to compete with the exhibition modules and the exhibition space of the Triennale to create special commissions of site-specific works, an ideal reference to the historic environmental pictorial interventions in the Triennale. The production of the materials used in the exhibition requires a quantitative reduction of the original material in its production phase. The exhibition is thus directed towards 100% non-production of CO2 and non-use of finishing materials, glues, paints, stuccos, welding.

La exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, published by Electa, with institutional introductions by Stefano Boeri, President of Triennale Milano, and Pierpaolo Piccioli, Creative Director of Valentino; the critical contributions of Damiano Gullì, curator of the exhibition, Francesco Bonami, art critic and curator, Suzanne Hudson, critic and art historian, and Davide Ferri, critic and curator; a conversation on painting between Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London, and Katharina Grosse, artist, moderated by Larissa Kikol, critic and art historian; a text on the history of Italian painting from 1959 to 1979 by Laura Cherubini, art historian and critic, and Andrea Viliani, Director of the Museum of Civilizations in Rome, and one on the history of mural painting in the Triennale by Marilia Pederbelli, assistant curator of Triennial; a text on the exhibition project by the architect Italo Rota and the descriptions of the works written by the critics and curators Lisa Andreani, Annika Pettini and Simona Squadrito.
In addition to the catalogue, the exhibition will be accompanied from a podcast, produced by Triennale Milano and written and created by Tiziano Scarpa, which will delve into the themes of the exhibition itinerary.

The works of will be on display: Beatrice Alici (San Donà di Piave, 1992), Paola Angelini (San Benedetto del Tronto, 1983), Silvia Argiolas (Cagliari, 1977), Stefano Arienti (Asola, 1961), Francesca Banchelli (Montevarchi, 1981), Riccardo Baruzzi ( Lugo, 1976), Andrea Barzaghi (Monza, 1988), Romina Bassu (Rome, 1982), Alessandro Bazan (Palermo, 1966), Angelo Bellobono (Nettuno, 1964), Thomas Berra (Desio, 1986), Luca Bertolo (Milano, 1968), Lorenza Boisi (Milano, 1972), Bea Bonafini (Bonn, 1990), Marco Bongiorni (Garbagnate Milanese, 1981), Benni Bosetto (Merate, 1987), Thomas Braida (Gorizia, 1982), Michele Bubacco (Venice, 1983), Pierpaolo Campanini (Cento, 1964), Pietro Capogrosso (Trani, 1967), Linda Carrara (Bergamo, 1984), Valerio Carrubba (Syracuse, 1975), Guglielmo Castelli (Turin, 1987), Manuele Cerutti (Turin, 1976), Andrea Chiesi (Modena, 1966) , Marco Cingolani (Como, 1961), Adelaide Cioni (Bologna, 1976), Roberto Coda Zabetta (Biella, 1975), Claudio Coltorti (Naples, 1989), Gianluca Concialdi (Palermo, 1981), Rudy Cremonini (Bologna, 1981), Pierpaolo Curti (Lodi, 1972), Valentina D'Amaro (Massa, 1966), Davide D'Elia (Cava dei Tirreni, 1973), Enrico David (Ancona, 1966), Francesco De Grandi (Palermo, 1968), Roberto de Pinto (Terlizzi, 1996), Marta Dell'Angelo (Pavia, 1970), Alberto Di Fabio (Avezzano, 1966), Stanislao Di Giugno (Rome, 1969), Patrizio di Massimo (Jesi, 1983), Gianluca Di Pasquale (Rome, 1971 ), Fulvio Di Piazza (Syracuse, 1969), Chiara Enzo (Venice, 1989), Alice Faloretti (Brescia, 1992), Matteo Fato (Pescara, 1979), Alessandro Fogo (Thiene, 1992), Andrea Fontanari (Trento, 1996) , Giulio Frigo (Arzignano, 1984), Giorgia Garzilli (Naples, 1992), Oscar Giaconia (Milano, 1978), Emilio Gola (Milano, 1994), Paolo Gonzato (Busto Arsizio, 1975), Cecilia Granara (Jeddah, 1991), Diego Gualandris (Alzano Lombardo, 1993), Agnese Guido (Copertino, 1982), Sebastiano Impellizzeri (Catania, 1982), Massimo Kaufmann (Milano, 1963), Pesce Khete (Rome, 1980), Andrea Kvas (Trieste, 1986), Francesco Lauretta (Ispica, 1964), Viola Leddi (Milano, 1993), Iva Lulashi (Tirana, 1988), Marta Mancini (Rome, 1981), Giulia Mangoni (Isola del Liri, 1991), Margherita Manzelli, (Ravenna, 1968), Beatrice Marchi (Gallarate, 1986), Andrea Martinucci ( Rome, 1991), Fabio Marullo (Catania, 1973), Fulvia Mendini (Milano, 1966), Beatrice Meoni (Florence, 1960), Daniele Milvio (Genoa, 1988), Narcisa Monni (Alghero, 1981), Pietro Moretti (Rome, 1996), Maria Morganti (Milano, 1965), Angelo Mosca (Chieti, 1961), Marco Neri (Forlì, 1968), Valerio Nicolai (Gorizia, 1988), Ismaele Nones (Trento, 1992), Francis Offman (Butare, 1987), Luca Pancrazzi (Figline Valdarno, 1961), Dario Pecoraro (1984, Milano), Jem Perucchini (Tekeze, 1995), Alessandro Pessoli (Cervia, 1963), Gabriele Picco (Brescia, 1974), Edoardo Piermattei (Ancona, 1992), Aronne Pleuteri (Erba, 2001), Amedeo Polazzo (Starnberg, 1988), Nazzarena Poli Maramotti (Montecchio Emilia, 1987), Gianni Politi (Rome, 1986), Vera Portatadino (Varese, 1984), Luigi Presicce (Porto Cesareo, 1976), Pierluigi Pusole (Turin, 1963), Marta Ravasi (Merate, 1987) , Andrea Respino (Mondovì, 1976), Pietro Roccasalva (Modica, 1970), Chris Rocchegiani (Jesi, 1977), Giangiacomo Rossetti (Milano, 1989), Giuliana Rosso (Chivasso, 1992), Pietro Ruffo (Rome, 1978), Erik Saglia (Turin, 1989), Nicola Samorì (Forlì, 1977), Angelo Sarleti (Reggio Calabria, 1979), Alessandro Sarra (Rome, 1966), Alessandro Scarabello (Rome, 1979), Davide Serpetti (L'Aquila, 1990), Marta Sforni (Milano, 1966), Mario Silva (London, 1993), Sofia Silva (Padua, 1990), Marta Spagnoli (Verona, 1994), Enrico Tealdi (Cuneo, 1976), Maddalena Tesser (Vittorio Veneto, 1992), Michele Tocca (Subiaco, 1983), Saverio Tonoli (Lucca, 1984), Eva Chiara Trevisan (Treviso, 1991), Vedovamazzei (Simeone Crispino, Naples, 1962, Stella Scala, Naples, 1964), Nicola Verlato (Verona, 1965), Flaminia Veronesi (Milano, 1986), Alice Visentin (Turin, 1993).
The exhibition is created in partnership with Valentino. The Institutional Partners Lavazza Group and Salone del Mobile.Milano and the Technical Partners ATM and Saviola support Triennale Milano also for this project.

Information
Italian painting today
By: Damiano Gullì
Honorary Board: Francesco Bonami, Suzanne Hudson, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Exhibition project: Studio Italo Rota
Italo Rota
with Alessandro Pedretti
collaborators: Giacomo Guarneri, Carola Greta Mazzocchi, Andrea Frattini
25 October 2023 - 11 February 2024

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