TRIENNALE DI MILANO, Milan
Italian Painting Today
10/2023 - 02/2024
In occasion of Italian Painting Today, Saverio Tonoli presents Giotto’s Dream, a large format ink painting suspended from the ceiling and painted on both sides. Painted on Xuan paper with ink and natural dyes, the work experiments with unusual color combinations, multiple layers of stains and velature. Time is the core element of the painting, which expands and mixes the colors on paper in a controlled and meticulous way, taking seconds to days to create forms. As for the creation of galaxies, planets and stars in the outer sky, time indeed organises forms in space. ‘Giotto’s Dream’ portrays the cosmic space, in homage to Giotto’s immersive sky-of-stars and imagining what would Giotto see, or dream of, nowadays.
Italian Painting Today is a large group exhibition dedicated to contemporary Italian painting through the work of 120 of the most interesting Italian artists of different generations, born between 1960 and 2000. The exhibition aims to restore the richness and complexity of Italian painting. Resuming the suggestions of the historic Gallery of Mural Painting of Triennale Milano, special commissions of site-specific mural works are planned, which will bring the medium of painting to measure itself with the theme of space and architecture.
Curated by: Damiano Gullì
Exhibition design: Studio Italo Rota
Honorary board: Francesco Bonami, Suzanne Hudson, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Artists: Beatrice Alici, Paola Angelini, Silvia Argiolas, Stefano Arienti, Francesca Banchelli, Riccardo Baruzzi, Andrea Barzaghi, Romina Bassu, Alessandro Bazan, Angelo Bellobono, Thomas Berra, Luca Bertolo, Lorenza Boisi, Bea Bonafini, Marco Bongiorni, Benni Bosetto, Thomas Braida, Michele Bubacco, Pierpaolo Campanini, Pietro Capogrosso, Linda Carrara, Valerio Carrubba, Guglielmo Castelli, Manuele Cerutti, Andrea Chiesi, Marco Cingolani, Adelaide Cioni, Roberto Coda Zabetta, Claudio Coltorti, Gianluca Concialdi, Rudy Cremonini, Pierpaolo Curti, Valentina D’Amaro, Davide D’Elia, Enrico David, Francesco De Grandi, Roberto de Pinto, Marta Dell’Angelo, Alberto Di Fabio, Stanislao Di Giugno, Patrizio di Massimo, Gianluca Di Pasquale, Fulvio Di Piazza, Chiara Enzo, Alice Faloretti, Matteo Fato, Alessandro Fogo, Andrea Fontanari, Giulio Frigo, Giorgia Garzilli, Oscar Giaconia, Emilio Gola, Paolo Gonzato, Cecilia Granara, Diego Gualandris, Agnese Guido, Sebastiano Impellizzeri, Massimo Kaufmann, Pesce Khete, Andrea Kvas, Francesco Lauretta, Viola Leddi, Iva Lulashi, Marta Mancini, Giulia Mangoni, Margherita Manzelli, Beatrice Marchi, Andrea Martinucci, Fabio Marullo, Fulvia Mendini, Beatrice Meoni, Daniele Milvio, Narcisa Monni, Pietro Moretti, Maria Morganti, Angelo Mosca, Marco Neri, Valerio Nicolai, Ismaele Nones, Francis Offman, Luca Pancrazzi, Dario Pecoraro, Jem Perucchini, Alessandro Pessoli, Gabriele Picco, Edoardo Piermattei, Aronne Pleuteri, Amedeo Polazzo, Nazzarena Poli Maramotti, Gianni Politi, Vera Portatadino, Luigi Presicce, Pierluigi Pusole, Marta Ravasi, Andrea Respino, Pietro Roccasalva, Chris Rocchegiani, Giangiacomo Rossetti, Giuliana Rosso, Pietro Ruffo, Erik Saglia, Nicola Samorì, Angelo Sarleti, Alessandro Sarra, Alessandro Scarabello, Davide Serpetti, Marta Sforni, Mario Silva, Sofia Silva, Marta Spagnoli, Enrico Tealdi, Maddalena Tesser, Michele Tocca, Saverio Tonoli, Eva Chiara Trevisan, Vedovamazzei (Simeone Crispino, Stella Scala), Nicola Verlato, Flaminia Veronesi, Alice Visentin.
Giotto’s Dream, 2023
1300 x 200 cm
Ink on Xuan paper mounted on canvas, metal sticks, wire
