Type Ctrl-D to add this site to your favourites	New York 8th Nov 2012 - 12th Nov 2012 The Salon: Art + Design Press Release (PDF) 53 leading international dealers exhibiting the finest modern art and design from 1890 to the present, along with major works of ethnographic art. Over half of the dealers are members of the prestigious Syndicat National des Antiquaires, many of whom will be exhibiting in New York for the first time. MILAN 24th Oct 2012 - 5th Dec 2012 FROM MILAN TO GENOA AND BACK Between Mannerism and Baroque Press Release (PDF) LONDON 11th Oct 2012 - 14th Oct 2012 FRIEZE MASTERS Robilant+Voena are pleased to be exhibiting at the inaugural Frieze Masters fair, stand A4,showing masterworks from the 16-19th centuries. Palazzo Venezia, Rome 5th Oct 2012 - 14th Oct 2012 BIENNALE INTERNAZIONALE DELL'ANTIQUARIATO DI ROMA Showing paintings from the early Roman seventeenth century (Caroselli, Paolini, Gentileschi), gold-grounds of the fifteenth century and vedute. LONDON 4th Oct 2012 - 14th Dec 2012 WHITE: Marble and Paint from Antiquity to Now Press Release (PDF) For the autumn 2012 season, in addition to their participation in the inaugural Frieze Masters art fair, ROBILANT+VOENA will present an edited selection of WHITE masterworks made of marble and paint spanning the centuries from antiquity to now. Running from the 4th October through to the 14th December at their London gallery, the exhibition will showcase over twenty works – in the main part marbles, set against a selection of white paint canvases by Italian modernists of the 1960s. Starting from a fourth century BC Ionian relief, via a surreal Vanitas by a seventeenth century anonymous Italian artist and an elegant eighteenth century Bust by Filippo della Valle, through a lyrical biomorphic 1941 Orphic Dream by Jean Arp, to the symbolical 2007 marble doors by Ai Weiwei and a minimal Tom Sachs sculpture from 2010 – the show will explore the mysterious power and elegance of white marble irrespective of subject, period or maker. The absence of colour is notable, not least since marble sculpture in its gestation in antiquity was anything but white – the effects of time having errased the painted decoration have left us with a purity and simplicity not intentional in its origin. This historical illusion, reclaimed during the Renaissance as a model, has changed the use of this material entirely – now marble cannot be anything other than its natural beautiful colour – celebrated here in its essence. Being entirely monochromatic, all works united by the colour WHITE here present the viewer with a variety of emotive effects engendered through the material – from the romantic to the sharp, from the solid to the intricate, from the metaphorical to the literal, from the figurative to the abstract, from the flat minimalism of the paint to the rich depth of the marble. The paintings, all 1960s works of members of the Azimuth group in Milan, have been chosen primarily as a counter-point to the marble works, their flatly painted surfaces echoing some of the more abstract marbles on show, such as the Arp, but mostly contrasting with the rich patina inherent in the natural material. What is important however, is their consistent interrogation of the form and structure of painting – pushing the boundaries of the canvas by slashing or bending, manipulating the two dimensional until it is forced into the realm of the three-dimensional, of a sculpted relief. This provides the perfect foil to the sculptures and elicits a dialogue not just between the colour and the material but also the form. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. For all further information and images please contact Mira Dimitrova via mira@dirobilant.com. GRAND PALAIS, PARIS 14th Sep 2012 - 23rd Sep 2012 XXVI Biennale des Antiquaires 2012 Press Release (PDF) LONDON 29th Jun 2012 - 6th Jul 2012 Master Paintings Week 2012 For further information of all events associated with Master Paintings Week please go to www.masterpaintingsweek.co.uk LONDON 28th Jun 2012 - 4th Jul 2012 Masterpiece Fair 2012, The Royal Hospital Chelsea Press Release (PDF) Showing: Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Master works London 20th Jun 2012 - 17th Aug 2012 FOPPA, ZENALE, LUINI Lombard painters before and after Leonardo Press Release (PDF) ROBILANT+VOENA are pleased to announce an exhibition of Lombard art from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, exploring the artistic milieu in Lombardy before and after Leonardo da Vinci’s influence in the area. The exhibition will present to the UK public for the first time this particular strand of the corporate collection of PKB Privatbank, Lugano (Switzerland). This fascinating collection of museum quality works, of deep academic and aesthetic importance, was started in the 1980s by Serafino Trabaldo Togna (1922-2006), the driving force of PKB Bank, whose family originated from the geographic area of interest. It was his very concerted effort to concentrate on the Renaissance output from north-western Italy that defined the focus of the collection from its inception, and which has been followed to the present day by Massimo and Umberto Trabaldo Togna (sons of Serafino) and the PKB Board. Today the collection numbers some twenty six works, from which ROBILANT +VOENA will present a selection of twelve. Following on from the hugely successful exhibition at the National Gallery last year devoted to Leonardo, the exhibition at R+V will offer collectors and scholars a unique chance to delve into the artistic developments in Milan in the decades from ca. 1470 to 1530. Leonardo himself spent two significant sojourns at the court of Ludovico Sforza il Moro during that period – first from 1482 to 1499 and again, after the fall of the Sforza family, from 1508 to 1513. This exhibition will examine the Milan he found, as well as the influence he had in changing its future artistic output. The earliest painting of the exhibition is a very rare St Peter by Vincenzo Foppa, a panel datable to the 1460s, when Foppa arrived in Milan to paint the chapel in Sant’Eustorgio for Tomaso Portinari. Two spectacular panels by Bergognone, an Ecce Homo and a Madonna and Child mark the turn of the century and bear an oblique reference to Leonardo’s presence, while in the celebrated Circumcision by Zenale of ca.1520, which was in fact the first purchase made for the collection, we witness the very significant influence of the Leonardesque models. Two important works represent Leonardo’s direct pupils in Milan: the Madonna with Child and a Saint by Andrea Solario, clearly indebted to the model of the Madonna Litta (St. Petersburg, Hermitage) of Leonardo, and the St. Jerome by Bernardino Luini where a lush landscape of woods, waters and stones is reminiscent of the fantastic landscapes of Leonardo’s drawings. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue publishing the collection in its entirety, written by Mauro Natale, renowned scholar of Italian Renaissance art and academic consultant to the PKB collection. For all further information and images please contact Mira Dimitrova via mira@dirobilant.com. SUPERSTUDIOPIU, MILAN 4th May 2012 - 6th May 2012 MIA - Milan Image Art Fair LONDON 1st May 2012 - 6th Jul 2012 Bertozzi&Casoni, Nicola Bolla, Tania Pistone Robilant+Voena are pleased to present an exhibition dedicated to three artists at the forefront of Italian contemporary art, Nicola Bolla, Tania Pistone and the duo Bertozzi&Casoni. Brought together by their astonishing visual impact, the works go hand in hand due to their technical originality and profound underlying philosophies. Milan 13th Apr 2012 - 15th Apr 2012 MiArt ArtNow! Press Release (PDF) Milan 13 – 15 April Stand B13 Maastricht 16th Mar 2012 - 25th Mar 2012 TEFAF 2012 Press Release (PDF) Maastricht - The World's Leading Art and Antiques Fair London, Milan, St. Moritz 14th Feb 2012 - 24th Mar 2012 David LaChapelle: Earth Laughs in Flowers Press Release (PDF) London Dates: 14 February – 24 March 2012 Reception for the Artist – Monday 13 February Public Lecture by the Artist – Tuesday 14 February Location: ROBILANT+VOENA Gallery, 38 Dover Street, London W1S 4NL Open: Mon – Fri 10am – 6pm, Saturdays 11am-5pm Milan Dates: 16 February – 24 March 2012 Reception for the Artist – Wednesday 15 February Location: ROBILANT+VOENA Gallery, Via Fontana 16, Milano 20122 Open: Mon – Fri 10am – 6pm, Saturdays 10am - 6pm St.Moritz Dates: 11- 26 February 2012 Location: St. Moritz Art Masters, Reformierte Dorfkirche, Via Maistra 18, St. Moritz 7500 Open: Mon – Fri 4pm – 7.30pm / Sat – Sun 1pm – 7.30 pm / Closed: Wed 15.2.2012 ROBILANT + VOENA are pleased to announce a major exhibition of acclaimed American artist DAVID LACHAPELLE opening in February across three European locations – London, Milan and St.Moritz. The series Earth Laughs in Flowers was first shown at Hannover’s Kestnergesellschaft Museum in spring 2011. ROBILANT + VOENA will now present this important body of work to the British, Italian and Swiss public, across its two galleries in London and Milan, as well as the Reformierte Dorfkirche, St. Moritz in collaboration with St.Moritz Art Masters, the 10 day summer art festival in the Engadin (24.8.-2.9.2012). In this new series of ten works DAVID LACHAPELLE (Born 1964) explores the vanity of life and beauty. With titles such as “Springtime”, “Late Summer”, “Early Fall” and “Deathless Winter” the works refer to the four seasons and allude to the life cycle: from birth to death. The title of the series is a quotation of the poem “Hamatreya” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, in which flowers are the earth’s laughter at the arrogance of human beings who believe they can rule the earth, although they themselves are transient and must return to it. The title of the exhibition can also be read in the sense of the Baroque vanitas portrayals. The meaning of the Baroque floral still life was always related to the human hubris and transience of earthly existence, with the classical still life often containing many of the following: flowers, fruits, vegetables, animals, insects, mask, candles, watches or skulls. These symbols denote the fugacity and limitations of human life and the meaningless nature of vanity. Just like wilting flowers, albeit their beauty, we will all fade away. Whilst LaChapelle shows an explicit compositional affinity to Baroque floral still life, he transfers the genre from painting to photography. The artist employs art historical visual traditions, but he also translates them into visual metaphor of and for our time. On second glance the viewer will discover objects of contemporary society in the blooming and fading flower arrangements: burning cigarettes, newspapers from yesterday, old mobile phones, plastic, Barbies, a Manga mask, medical devices, a burning American flag, a model of an airplane, balloons, tins, collages, throw away dinnerware or a tattered dollar bill. These are the metaphors of vanity in our era of an affluent though seemingly troubled society. The often bizarre and excessive symbolical imagery does not fail to remind us however, as in the traditional vanitas, to follow our virtues and to celebrate life before it‘s over. ‘Where are these men? Asleep beneath their grounds: And strangers, fond as they, their furrows plough. Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet, Clear of the grave.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Hamatreya, 1846 The exhibition in London will be accompanied by a public lecture by the artist. For lecture tickets, and further exhibition information and images please contact Mira Dimitrova via mira@dirobilant.com or 0207 409 1540.