A charming little venue in Venice, facing Canale della Giudecca, will host the works of our artists during the months of September and October, which is the most pleasant time to spend in Venice!
We will meet you there!
opening on Sundeay Septembre 1st from 5 through 9 p.m.
FORNI in Venice | GAS – Giudecca Art Space | Fondamenta Sant’Eufemia 673 | Isola della Giudecca | Venezia |A few steps away from Actv stop, Palanca
Two extraordinary works by the master of Italian hyperrealism, Luciano Ventrone, who recently passed away.
Made in the early 2000s, both paintings represent iconic subjects of this author: the Caravaggio-inspired basket and the composition of lemons.
Both works are now available in our gallery.
L’ONDA LUNGA, di Michelangelo Barbieri, è una scultura in ferro e rame collocata sulle colline di Bologna, in assoluta sintonia con il luogo che la ospita, La Galeazza, un antico podere riconvertito al biologico per valorizzare con professionalità e amore il territorio collinare bolognese.
giovedì 22 luglio
Michelangelo Barbieri sarà presente a La Galeazza
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Insieme all’Onda lunga, anche una seconda grande scultura di Michelangelo Barbieri, ancora in lavorazione, sarà collocata sulle colline della tenuta La Galeazza, in totale armonia con l’ambiente circostante. Panorami mozzafiato, luoghi senza confini, dove la delicatezza e fragilità degli elementi invita a riflettere sulla precarietà di nuovi e preziosi equilibri che, evocando quiete e armonia, suggeriscono un nuovo ordine delle cose. Questo il pensiero che innegabilmente lega la ricerca di Barbieri alla filosofia di La Galeazza.
Michelangelo Barbieri definisce se stesso ”abile affabulatore di discreta manualità scultorea”. Preferisce la linea, il piano e lo spigolo alle plasticità sinuose della forma. Esili e raffinate strutture racchiudono piccoli sogni, frammenti di fantasia, schegge di poesia, percorsi alternativi alla realtà oggettiva, creando una nuova dimensione, dove le proporzioni sono reinventate e la materia perde il proprio peso e la propria funzione, tanto che una piuma può controbilanciare un piombo, una nuvola può sostenere una barca in navigazione e una rosa è in grado di sorreggere un palazzo. Il gioco dei ruoli è totalmente sovvertito per trovare nuovi equilibri: “cerco di ridare armonia e semplicità a quello che dentro di me è disordinato e difficile da comprendere”, questa è la funzione della scultura per l’autore.
Nato a Bologna nel 1978, Michelangelo Barbieri si diploma all’Istituto Statale d’Arte e prosegue la propria formazione all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna per coltivare l’innata matrice scenografica. È proprio durante gli anni di studio trascorsi ad elaborare progetti e a tradurli in scenografie per spettacoli teatrali, che prende forma l’idea di applicare lo stesso modus operandi alla scultura. Collabora con la Galleria Forni da molti anni. L’ultima personale, dal titolo “Città invisibili”, risale al 2014, alla quale sono seguiti numerosi progetti ed esposizioni in spazi pubblici e privati in Italia e all’estero.
Arte in Salotto, Milan, May 19 through July 15 2021 (postponed until September 26 2021)
The exhibition is the result of a special collaboration between Paola Forni and Camilla Prini, founder of Arte in Salotto, a new gallery based in Milan, in the very heart of Brera. As suggested by its name, the gallery is a real living-room, where paintings and sculptures by contemporary figurative authors interact with the design furnishings, in an intimate and elegant athmosphere. These are the distinctive features of the new Milanese gallery, features that are undeniably shared by Galleria Forni, which has always been a reference point for figurative contemporary art.
“Botanical Beauty Tales” is a group-show where each artist has created, especially for this occasion, one or more works dedicated to the subject of Flowers”
The exhibition is all about beauty, joy, lightness, color. We definitely need it!
List of the selected artists from Galleria Forni: Mauro Davoli, Josef Fischnaller, Loris Liberatori, Arianna Matta, Gianluca Pollini, Lars Reiffers, Doriano Scazzosi, Giovanni Spazzini, Giorgio Tonelli, Filippo Zaghini.
Our e-shop is now online!
Finally, after countless delays and interruptions, we are happy to announce the online sale of the photographic artworks of our authors: you can buy them wherever you are with a simple click!
You can reach our e-shop from the menu of our website … starting from March 18, 2021.!
The authors: Barbara Bicego, Mauro Davoli, Peter Mathis, Alessandro Piredda, Gianluca Pollini, Vera Rossi
More info soon!
Stay tuned!
Our e-shop is online! It’s entirely dedicated to photographic artworks.
Finally, after countless delays and interruptions, we are happy to announce the start of the online sale of the photographic artworks of our authors: you can buy them wherever you are with a simple click!
The big canvas by Nicola Nannini “Prove per un cielo d’autunno”, more than 3 meters large, has been selected fro the exhibition “Pittori fantastici nella Valle del Po“, curated by Camillo Langone, at PAC (Pavillon of Contemporary Art) in Ferrara, from July 3 through September 27 2020.
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Artists’ studios are really fascinating, being the places where the secret of “creative storm” is kept and where the man-artist reveals himself, not only through his tools, such as canvases, brushes, spatulas and chisels, but also books, catalogues, records, photographs and anything that reveals his interests and passions.
Sometimes the studio identifies with the artist’s home, other times it is a secluded refuge, rarely tied up and minimal, most often full of any kind of things, real accumulations like a “Wunderkammer”.
The deafening noise in sculptors’ workshops, the smell of turpentine in painters’ ateliers, music most of the times, but sometimes silence, absolute silence in photographers’ dark rooms. Either a large loft or a small atelier, in any case, the artist’s studio is an intimate and vital refuge, a special place where to find concentration and where to free creativity and communicate intimately with the artwork.
Quentin Garel’s studio is really overwhelming: it’s a former foundry in Upper Normandy, a space he shares with his father Philippe, artist and professor at the Academy of Rouen, from whom Quentin has certainly inherited the versatility and ability in using different techniques with surprising ease. Garel’s studio is a real workshop of creativity consisting of large lofts that allow him to work on very large works. A portion of his home in Paris is also an atelier, where he mostly creates sketches as studies of large sculptures and interesting drawings, appreciated by admirers of his work just as much as his sculptures. Quentin Garel’s work takes place not only in the intimacy of his studio in Paris or his atelier in Normandy, but also in foundries, real creative forges, verifying every single detail of the fusion with the casting technicians, as well as the finishing patina of his bronzes, which is a peculiar technique that makes his sculptures look undoubtedly outstanding.
