Serena Maisto: Time Line, My Walk with Basquiat
Cortesi Gallery is pleased to present the first solo show by Serena Maisto, artist promoted by Art51. The new project on show is born from the artist’s encounter with the oeuvre of Edo Bertoglio, the swiss photographer and film director who portrayed the unique energy of 1980s New York. Maisto focuses on one of the […]
Nicola De Maria: From the Venice Biennale 1990
Ahead of the opening of the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Cortesi Gallery is delighted to announce the launch of a new space in Milan, with an exhibition dedicated to Italian Transavanguardia artist, Nicola De Maria. The showbrings together the five monumental canvases created by De Maria on the occasion ofhis […]
Maurizio Donzelli: Etcetera
The work of Maurizio Donzelli (b. Brescia, 1958) focuses on mark, drawing and ornament as hub around which all other tools of expression seem to gravitate. These characteristics are visible both in the realization of the work and in the ways in which the latter is exhibited. The first-ever solo exhibition in the UK dedicated […]
Louise Nevelson. Assemblages and Collages 1960 – 1980
Cortesi Gallery, Lugano, is pleased to present the exhibition Louise Nevelson. Assemblages and Collages, a remarkable selection of 29 works realised by the artist between 1960 and 1980. Louise Nevelson (Kiev, 1899 – New York, 1988) was born in the Ukraine but emigrated to the United States in her early years. She is one of […]
Maurizio Donzelli: La linea del Tutto
Cortesi Gallery is pleased to announce a solo show of Maurizio Donzelli (Italy, 1958) the first in their Lugano space. For this exhibition, Donzelli has selected works from those he has produced over the past two years – from acrylic drawings, to watercolours and his Mirrors – which are arranged in an articulate display that […]
The Concrete Utopia: Ivan Picelj and New Tendencies 1961-1973
Cortesi Gallery is delighted to present The Concrete Utopia. Ivan Picelj and New Tendencies 1961-1973, an exhibition dedicated to explore the production of the Croatian artist Ivan Picelj (1924-2011). Inaugurated at the gallery’s London space last May, The Concrete Utopia arrives to Lugano after a warm reception from the public and critics, enriched by works […]
Agostino Bonalumi: I Wish to Meet Architects
Cortesi Gallery is delighted to present its first exhibition in London dedicated to Agostino Bonalumi. The exhibition will feature Bonalumi’s immersive work, Bianco (1969), alongside eleven other signi-ficant works from the sixties and seventies. Vorrei incontrare gli architetti (I Wish to Meet Architects) is the title that Bonalumi (1935–2013) gave to one of his exhibitions […]
GRAZIA VARISCO. Filo rosso 1960 – 2015
Cortesi Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Grazia Varisco, Filo Rosso 1960-2015. Filo Rosso (red thread, guiding thread) is the title the artist has chosen to accompany the connected paths of inquiry presented in this show, where works sometimes distant from each other in time are exhibited in a perceptual, sensory dialogue. […]
GREAT EXPECTATIONS: The Sense of the Future in the Art of the ’60s
“Great Expectations: The Sense of the Future in the Art of the Sixties” tries to analyze and convey the mood of anticipation about the immediate future experienced by a generation of artists that emerged in this decade. Curated by Marco Meneguzzo, the exhibition sets off from the idea that 1960 marked a crucial turning point […]
PAOLO SCHEGGI – LUCY SKAER
Cortesi Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of Scheggi – Skaer, a show dedicated to Paolo Scheggi (Settignano, Florence 1940 – Rome, 1971) and Lucy Skaer (Glasgow, 1975). This exhibition, curated and conceived for the Lugano gallery by Eva Fabbris, juxtaposes the oeuvre of Paolo Scheggi with the more recent practice of artist Lucy […]