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 […]
Black: An Idea of Light
Cortesi Gallery is pleased to announce Black: An Idea of Light, a fascinating journey through some twenty works of art by artists of different generations, from the post-war period to the present, exploring each one’s motivations for choosing black as the commencement of the creative act, a cognitive point of departure for the renewal of […]
Grazia Varisco, If…
Cortesi Gallery is delighted to present, for the first time in London, a solo exhibition by the Italian artist Grazia Varisco. Following the successful exhibition Grazia Varisco: Filo Rosso 1960/2015 at Cortesi Lugano in Switzerland, the gallery is now pleased to introduce Varisco’s body of work to the London audience. Born in Milan in 1937, […]
A Bout the Souffle
Shaped canvases and ballpoint pens. A trajectory. The color of matter. Surface. Resins and aluminum. Perspectives. Solid, void. Gauging distance. Breathless The trailer for the Jean-Luc Godard film that marked the birth of the Nouvelle Vague presented the public with a rapid succession of different perspectives and bodies, words and visions. A similar effect […]
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 […]
Edo Bertoglio – RINGFLASH
Cortesi Contemporary is pleased to present Ringflash, a solo exhibition by Edo Bertoglio. For the first time, the Swiss photographer will be juxtaposing his historic project “Figurines” (1978-82), an extraordinary collection of portraits featuring iconic figures from the New York punk/new-wave scene, with the recent, never previously exhibited series “Ladies” (2010-11), made in Switzerland and […]
Out of the Blue
Cortesi Contemporary is pleased to present Out of the Blue, a group exhibition featuring internationally renowned artists, including several leading figures of today’s contemporary art scene. The gallery continues its exhibition journey begun with Arte Italiana ’60–’90, shifting its focus toward the 2000s. Conceived by curator Alberto Salvadori, the path unfolds through a selection of […]
Arte Italiana ’60-’90
Cortesi Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of its newly renovated exhibition space, located in a prestigious building in the heart of Lugano. The cultural project, initiated by collector Stefano Cortesi, aims to become a place of exchange, research, and experimentation, making modern and contemporary art accessible to a wide audience. The gallery will […]