Mondino's Bazaar. Antologia di Aldo Mondino. Opere dal 1960 al 2000
from 29 March 2009 to 26 April 2009
Ferrara
Works by the great Turin-born artist Aldo Mondino (1938–2005) are being exhibited in Ferrara for the first time, thus continuing a clear direction taken by the ‘Benini’ gallery, which over the past couple of years has brought to the attention of my fellow citizens established masters of the 20th century (Carmi, Galliani, Miró, Vedova, Warhol) alongside young talents (Catia Magni) and thematic exhibitions (Verso Ferrara, dedicated to Este painting in the 20th century; the exhibition on the new ‘Roman school’; or the group show centred on Saint Sebastian ‘between the sacred and the profane’).
Now, the critic Lucio Scardino has curated this anthology with Monica Benini, which comprises more than thirty works including paintings, sculptures, ceramics and jewellery, spanning forty years of the versatile Piedmontese artist’s career. He is a significant figure capable of retracing, as has rightly been noted, “with great independence and authority the aesthetic experiences from the early 1960s to the present day, establishing a wholly original stylistic framework in which the very identity of the work is continually called into question”.
Indeed, his work features elements drawn from Conceptual Art and Arte Povera, from Pop Art to the Transavantgarde, yet reinterpreted in a personal manner, in a continuous wandering through genres and stylistic elements, in a sort of intelligent and versatile “praise of incoherence”, employing a strongly ironic, illusionistic and at times uninhibited spirit, which can be defined as postmodern.
One need only consider his highly original way of manipulating various materials, whereby sugar lumps are transformed into mosaic tiles, grains of corn become makeshift carpets, chocolate bars are used to construct frames or to model faces of various kinds, and ballpoint pens crystallise into Arabesque-style chandeliers.
But what remain truly unforgettable to the general public are his dancing dervishes, one of the most significant images of our multi-ethnic and interracial world, rendered by Aldo Mondino in a series of paintings of great poetic value, with the beautiful songs of Franco Battiato from the 1980s providing the ideal musical backdrop.
Special thanks go to Antonio Mondino, the artist’s son and curator of his Archive.
Image: Dervishes, 1990s, mixed media on linoleum, 60x80 cm
Opening Sunday 29 March at 5.30 pm
Monica Benini Arte
Contrada Della Rosa, 36-38-40 Ferrara
Mornings from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm
Afternoons from 4.00 pm to 7.30 pm
Closed Thursday afternoons and Sunday mornings
Now, the critic Lucio Scardino has curated this anthology with Monica Benini, which comprises more than thirty works including paintings, sculptures, ceramics and jewellery, spanning forty years of the versatile Piedmontese artist’s career. He is a significant figure capable of retracing, as has rightly been noted, “with great independence and authority the aesthetic experiences from the early 1960s to the present day, establishing a wholly original stylistic framework in which the very identity of the work is continually called into question”.
Indeed, his work features elements drawn from Conceptual Art and Arte Povera, from Pop Art to the Transavantgarde, yet reinterpreted in a personal manner, in a continuous wandering through genres and stylistic elements, in a sort of intelligent and versatile “praise of incoherence”, employing a strongly ironic, illusionistic and at times uninhibited spirit, which can be defined as postmodern.
One need only consider his highly original way of manipulating various materials, whereby sugar lumps are transformed into mosaic tiles, grains of corn become makeshift carpets, chocolate bars are used to construct frames or to model faces of various kinds, and ballpoint pens crystallise into Arabesque-style chandeliers.
But what remain truly unforgettable to the general public are his dancing dervishes, one of the most significant images of our multi-ethnic and interracial world, rendered by Aldo Mondino in a series of paintings of great poetic value, with the beautiful songs of Franco Battiato from the 1980s providing the ideal musical backdrop.
Special thanks go to Antonio Mondino, the artist’s son and curator of his Archive.
Image: Dervishes, 1990s, mixed media on linoleum, 60x80 cm
Opening Sunday 29 March at 5.30 pm
Monica Benini Arte
Contrada Della Rosa, 36-38-40 Ferrara
Mornings from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm
Afternoons from 4.00 pm to 7.30 pm
Closed Thursday afternoons and Sunday mornings
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olio su linoleum
60 × 80 cm
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