Not so private | Villa delle Rose, Bologna: Galleries and histories of art in Bologna. Exhibition realized together with MAMbo, Bologna.

GALLERIA D'ARTE MAGGIORE - G.A.M. AT VILLA DELLE ROSE
1978 - 2008. 5 PAGES OF OUR HISTORY
October 31 - November 30, 2008

 

The "Not so private" exhibition, promoted by Galleria d'Arte Moderna in collaboration with the Associazione Gallerie d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea - ASCOM Bologna, dedicates its sixth event to two of the most renowned historical galleries in Bologna, both nationally and internationally. The Galleria d'Arte Maggiore and the Galleria Studio G7 have contributed fundamentally to the development, dissemination and promotion of art in our country since their foundation. In the setting of Villa delle Rose, starting at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, October 31, a selection of works by some of the most representative artists of their activity will present their profession as promoters of culture to the public.

 

Galleria d'Arte Maggiore has been distinguished since 1978, the year of its foundation, by the will of Franco and Roberta Calarota to go beyond the logic of the market to spread the culture and love for quality art on a double track: on the one hand by focusing on the transmission of the historical and cultural values ​​of the twentieth century - from the cubism of Picasso and Braque to the metaphysics of De Chirico, from the artists of our futurism (Balla, Severini, etc.) to the poetics of the object of Giorgio Morandi - and on the other by the strong interest in those contemporary artists of value already established at an international level. The exhibition "1978 - 2008. 5 pages of our history", which is part of the "Not so private" exhibition at Villa delle Rose, documents a small part of the most current and multifaceted aspect of their activity that has seen them present on the cultural scene for a long time not only as an art gallery, but also as the headquarters of the general archives for the creation of the catalogues raisonnés of Mattia Moreni and Leoncillo (the first present in this exhibition) and as a promoter of public exhibitions for national and international institutions and museums. From this last point of view, the traveling exhibition dedicated to Moreni that Franco and Roberta Calarota organized in three museums including the Kunsthaus in Hamburg dates back to 2008. A work carried out with passion that has often led them to build deep personal and professional bonds with artists, as in the case of Antoni Clavé - the Catalan master, French by adoption - among the artists selected to participate in this exhibition. A friendship that reveals another stage of their professional path and the birth of collaborations for the realization of public exhibitions in institutional venues in Italy to make international artists known (Arman, Henry Moore, etc.) and abroad (Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, European Parliament in Strasbourg, etc.) to spread our art. It therefore appears clear that one of the aims of Maggiore is to escape from commercial logic to establish a true cultural exchange with the public and collectors. And precisely because Italian art, often underestimated, is full of important artists, in an all-Bolognese exhibition the avant-garde work of Mario Nanni could certainly not be missing, as well as the almost monochrome works of Toti Scialoja, exhibited as a happy homage to that Roman School that opens up to expressionism and the trends of American and French art of that period, and the painting-sculpture with clean lines of Nino Longobardi.