From 28 January to 24 March 2024 the exhibition venue of Villa delle Rose in Bologna is pleased to welcome Sergio Lombardo 1960-1970, an exhibition that intends to shed new light on the initial decade of the Roman artist and psychologist’s career, in the crucial transition from his beginnings at the end of the 1950s to his detachment from pictorial practice to embark on the path of conceptual research that characterises his works from 1965 onwards.
Curated by Anna Mecugni, an expert on post-war Italian art and 21st century international art, and promoted in partnership between Archivio Sergio Lombardo and Settore Musei Civici Bologna | MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, the personal exhibition stems from the research project Superquadri selected among the winners of the 7th edition of Italian Council, the programme of support and international promotion of Italian contemporary art promoted by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, presented by Untitled Association (Rome) with the cultural partners MADRE – Donnaregina Museum of Contemporary Art, University of New Orleans and the Italian Cultural Institute of Toronto.
The exhibition at Villa delle Rose features around fifty works from various series, characterised by different formats, techniques and styles, at times in apparent contrast to each other: abstraction and figuration in painting; tactile, modular, reconfigurable objects in photomics; ‘projects’ on paper of structures and environmental installations.
Coinciding with the exhibition, the bilingual (Italian/English) book Sergio Lombardo: Dai “Superquadri” a “Sfera con sirena”, 1965-1970 edited by Anna Mecugni (bruno, 2024) is published. The book is accompanied by the most comprehensive visual documentation of these works available to date and features previously unpublished art-historical essays by Anna Mecugni and other scholars of post-war Italian art.
Villa delle Rose – Via Saragozza, 228/230 – Bologna
