Exhibitions

Past

RITORNO AL BAROCCO
FONTANA LEONCILLO MELOTTI 2 Feb - 11 Apr 2021 MILAN - ML Fine Art is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition RITORNO AL BAROCCO: FONTANA, LEONCILLO, MELOTTI, curated by Andrea Bacchi. The title of the exhibition recalls a famous show curated by Nicola Spinosa (Ritorno al Barocco. Da Caravaggio a Vanvitelli, Naples, December 2009 - April 2010) but follows... Read more

NOT MADE NOT CHOSEN NOT PRESENTED
BY STUDIO FOR PROPOSITIONAL CINEMA 6 Nov - 4 Dec 2020 ML Fine Art presents a two-part exposition on Emilio Prini (1943 - 2016), Italian artist from Stresa associated with Arte Povera. Staged by Studio for Propositional Cinema, an artist entity inaugurated in Düsseldorf in 2013, the project takes the form of two distinct yet interlocking exhibitions featuring twenty works by Prini in dialogue with Gaylen Gerber, Nicolás Guagnini, Irena Haiduk, Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo), Julia Scher, Cally Spooner, Josef Strau, Franz West, and Christopher Williams. Read more

NOT MADE NOT CHOSEN NOT PRESENTED
BY EMILIO PRINI 6 Oct - 6 Nov 2020 ML Fine Art presents a two-part exposition on Emilio Prini (1943 - 2016), Italian artist from Stresa associated with Arte Povera. Staged by Studio for Propositional Cinema, an artist entity inaugurated in Düsseldorf in 2013, the project takes the form of two distinct yet interlocking exhibitions featuring twenty works by Prini in dialogue with Gaylen Gerber, Nicolás Guagnini, Irena Haiduk, Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo), Julia Scher, Cally Spooner, Josef Strau, Franz West, and Christopher Williams. Read more

From Word to Sign: Accardi Basquiat Boetti Capogrossi Kounellis Novelli Perilli Twombly
curated by Maria Albani 16 Jul - 30 Oct 2020 MILAN - ML Fine Art - Matteo Lampertico invites you to discover our online exhibition focused on the relationship between painting and writing, showcasing selected works by Carla Accardi, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alighiero Boetti, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Jannis Kounellis, Gastone Novelli, Achille Perilli, Cy Twombly. The written word has always inspired great... Read more

Close Quarters
19 Jun - 25 Sep 2020 LONDON - ML Fine Art presents a group exhibition of Italian and international twentieth-century art. Complemented by a selection of modern design from Madrid, London and New York based gallery Portuondo, Close Quarters alludes to the household of an imagined collector.

The sensual encounter with this eclectic collection delineates an imperfect portrait, which the viewer is invited to complete. Simultaneously intimate and startingly impersonal, the objects on view invite speculative incursions on the life of our unnamed protagonist: what did he buy, and what did he inherit? What has he already sold? Read more

Carla Accardi: Sicofoil
11 Feb - 8 May 2020 M&L Fine Art presents a monographic exhibition showcasing Carla Accardi's seminal sicofoil works, featuring ten paintings from the 1960s and 1970s. This is the first solo presentation of the artist's work in the United Kingdom since 1961, timed to coincide with a major retrospective at Museo del Novecento, Milan (March... Read more

Max Ernst: An Invitation to Look
2 Oct - 29 Nov 2019 The exhibition presented by M&L Fine Art in London focuses on some of the most ethereal and imaginative qualities of Max Ernst's works, bringing together a selection of works proved to be iconic components in several exhibitions worldwide, such as Museum of Modern Art, New York and Art Institute Chicago exhibitions, 1961; Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 1966; and Haus der Kunst Munich, 1979. Read more

Black & White: gesture and geometry in post-war abstraction
9 May - 21 Jun 2019 M&L Fine Art is pleased to present a group exhibition of monochrome works by nine Italian and international post-war artists. Encompassing a range of mediums and techniques ranging from the 1950s to the 2000s, the works on display conjure visual associations between diverse practitioners working in abstraction in the past... Read more

Aldo Mondino: Linoleum | Milan
3 Apr - 17 May 2019 The current exhibition organised by ML Fine Art in Milan focuses on the extensive production of Aldo Mondino's last years of activity, engaging a critical essay and a memoir by Gian Enzo Sperone with seminal paintings by Mondino on linoleum. Read more

Aldo Mondino: Linoleum | London
13 Feb - 22 Mar 2019 The current exhibition organized by ML Fine Art in London focuses on the extensive production of Aldo Mondino's last years of activity, engaging a critical essay and a memoir by Gian Enzo Sperone with seminal paintings by Mondino on linoleum. Read more

Mario Schifano: Monocromi
2 Oct - 23 Nov 2018 It is recognised that the term monochrome refers to an absolute reduction in colour, to a zero degree in painting, a single background until it is zeroed out. As far as Mario Schifano is concerned, ‘Monocromi/Monochromes’ defines a cycle of artworks created by the Roman artist between 1960 and 1962 Read more

Tano Festa: Coriandoli
2 Oct - 24 Nov 2017 M&L Fine art presents an exhibition dedicated to the work of Tano Festa. The leaflet published in occasion of the exhibition features a text by Laura Cherubini entitled 'CORIANDOLI di FESTA: A passport to Hell' Read more

Franco Grignani
1 Jun - 28 Jul 2017 Featuring around 20 paintings from the 1950s through to the 1970s, the current exhibition provides a survey of artist and master of Italian post-war graphic design Franco Grignani with peculiar attention dedicated to works showcasing his stylistic developments during this period. Read more

Lucio Fontana Sculptor: From the Earth to the Cosmos
7 Mar - 12 May 2017 M&L Fine Art will present Lucio Fontana: Sculptor – From the Earth to the Cosmos, a rare opportunity to retrace Lucio Fontana’s (1899-1968) artistic career represented through a series of sculptures and ceramics shown in the UK for the first time. Read more

Gianni Asdrubali: Assolo
26 Oct - 15 Dec 2016 Davanti ai miei occhi, con rapidi spostamenti, Gianni Asdrubali ha collocato sulla parete dello studio i suoi più recenti dipinti, avvicinandoli tra loro a formare dittici, trittici o insiemi più numerosi che, sorprendentemente, mostrano di concatenarsi senza soluzione di continuità uno con l’altro, nonostante siano stati realizzati separatamente e senza... Read more

Arte Programmata: Italian Kinetic Art from the 1970s
4 Oct - 20 Dec 2016 M&L Fine Art is pleased to present Arte Programmata: Italian Kinetic Art from the 1960s, a group exhibition curated by Marco Meneguzzo. The exhibition includes 19 works of historical significance shown in the UK for the first time by leading exponents of this neo-avant-garde movement including Getulio Alviani, Giovanni Anceschi, Marina Apollonio, Alberto Biasi, Davide Boriani, Gianni Colombo, Gabriele De Vecchi, Edoardo Landi, Enzo Mari, Manfredo Massironi, Bruno Munari and Grazia Varisco. Read more

Salvatore Scarpitta: Material X
10 Jun - 22 Jul 2016 ML Fine Art London presents the first solo show of Salvatore Scarpitta in the UK, with the aim of investigating the most fervid and significant period in Salvatore Scarpitta's artistic development from 1958-68.
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Antonio Calderara
15 Apr - 3 Jun 2016 Antonio Calderara represents a hidden bridge connection between Italian Post-War abstract art and French and American Post-War abstract art and, for the first time a series of his works will be displayed by ML Fine Art in London.

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Angelo Savelli: Basically White & Dialogues
22 Jan - 25 Mar 2016 'Basically White' is the first UK exhibition of works by Angelo Savelli. The exhibition focuses on Savelli's contribution to European and American modern art stretching a connection to other of his contemporaries. Eleven seminal paintings are shown alongside pieces by Enrico Castellani, Lucio Fontana, Robert Ryman, Salvatore Scarpitta and Jan Schoonhoven, artists with whom Savelli shared a common aesthetic language. Read more

Enrico Castellani: Works on paper
11 Dec 2015 - 26 Feb 2016 As with all great artists in search of their own expressive style the beginnings coincide with a sequence of stimuli, inspirations and categorical refusals. His years of artistic formation took place in Brussels. In 1952, the artist studied painting and sculpture at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts and in 1956... Read more

Homage to the square
20 Apr - 26 Jun 2015 “Homage to the Square” is the title chosen by Josef Albers for all his works after 1950. These works comprise over one thousand paintings, all absolutely square in shape, in which the artist studies the optical effect that is determined by the juxtaposition of different colours within a fixed geometric... Read more

Vincenzo Agnetti
19 Nov 2014 - 15 Jan 2015 In collaboration with the Agnetti Archive and curated by Marco Meneguzzo, the exhibition 'Vincenzo Agnetti' presents an important nucleus of museum quality works from private collections, never appeared on the market but included in the artist’s main solo shows. The exhibited works document the extraordinary artistic path of the greatest... Read more