A new cultural reality of the city is presented on the occasion of the fifth edition of Milan Museocity (2-7 March 2021), which sees the sculptor present in the “Secret Museum 2021” section with the human container designed in 1968…
The exhibition, set up on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Giovanni Carandente (1920-2009), presents works, photographs, letters and other documentary material in stages to enrich the collections of the museum dedicated to him. Somaini is present…
The Galleria d’Arte Maggiore in Bologna hosts an original exhibition dedicated to the house and collection of the Como architect Ico Parisi, presenting some works by Lucio Fontana, Fausto Melotti and Francesco Somaini. Among these, a sculpture by Somaini (Piccolo…
On Thursday 8 October 2020 from 16.00 to 18.00 the conference “Care as a theme for innovation” for Milano Design City will be held at the Palazzina Liberty in Largo Marinai d’Italia. Organized by the Area Porta Romana district and…
On December 7th the thirtieth anniversary of Campo del Sole (Tuoro sul Trasimeno) is celebrated with a large conference that address the different aspects of this open-air museum, composed of 27 large columns and sculptures in sandstone, placed in the…
On Tuesday the 3rd of December 2019 (from 10.00 to 18.00) and on Wednesday the 4th of December 2019 (from 9.00 to 17.00), at the Pistoia Musei Foundation (Palazzo Buontalenti, via de ‘Rossi 7, Pistoia), will take place the conference…
The exhibition traces the architect’s career (Istanbul 1934) and the main collaborations with artists. On display are two drawings by Somaini, a design drawing that reproduces the work of Somaini Big broken stele on the theme of life and death…
Pala Alpitour, Turin Galleria Open Art, Prato – Booth 31 31 october – 3 november On show the sculpture: Obliqua. Il gesto, 1959, coated bronze with highlights on a rotating iron base in two elements painted in black, 18,5x40x23 cm,…
From 11 December 2019 to 29 February 2020 there will be at the Vatican Museums (Braccio di Carlo Magno) the exhibition I segni del sacro, le impronte del reale. La grafica del Novecento nella Collezione d’Arte Contemporanea dei Musei Vaticani,…
The project, curated by Luca Cerizza and Zasha Colah, reconstructs the events of Campo Urbano through original materials from the archives of the artists, catalogs and efemera designed by Bruno Munari along with a rich documentation of videos and video-interviews…
The Archive Francesco Somaini wishes its farewell with affection, esteem and gratitude to the photographer Enrico Cattaneo, a friend of the artist and author of numerous photographs of his works. From left: Enrico Cattaneo, Enrico Crispolti, Francesco Somaini and Alik Cavaliere…
On the occasion of the Festival of the Two Worlds, the director Marco Tonelli inaugurates the new layout of the contemporary art collection of “Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts – Carandente Museum”, including the new acquisitions and donations. Starting point of…
The exhibition, organized by the CariPerugia Arte Foundation, retraces art history of the second half of the 20th century in Umbria through the works of great artists who have chosen to live and work in this territory for the space…
The exhibition, curated by Marco Meneguzzo, features one hundred and forty works selected from the collections of Intesa San Paolo, including a sculpture by Francesco Somaini: Obliqua, 1960, lead worked with blowtorch, exhibited in the sculptor’s personal hall at the…
A day dedicated to the figure of the historian and art critic April 4th 2019 MILAN, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera – Sala Napoleonica hours: 10.00-13.00 / 14.00-18.00 free admission Together with Archivio Crispolti Arte Contemporanea, Accademia di Belle…
The Archivio Francesco Somaini greets with great affection, esteem and gratitude the professor Enrico Crispolti, a friend of the artist since 1956. Since then, the collaborations of the art historian and the sculptor, which have resulted in numerous exhibitions and…
Open Art Gallery of Prato presents an important solo show of Somaini, which collects selected examples of the informal season, mostly exhibited in personal and collective exhibitions held by the artist in the United States. Among these, Proposal for a…
The exhibition, curated by Valeria Tassinari, draws from the vast permanent collection of MAGI’900. Among these, a drawing by Francesco Somaini of 1963 entitled Composition (Indian ink on paper applied on cardboard, 107×135 mm), belonging to the “collection 8×10” of…
On Sunday 16 September 2018 two works on paper are exhibited in the Sala del Minatore: one by Renato Guttuso and one by Francesco Somaini. The work of the sculptor is an ink washed out on white paper from 1982…
It is announced that the next commission for authentications will meet on 5th, 6th, 7th and 9th, 10th, 11th July 2018. Please send the works to be examined few days before at the Milan headquarters of the archive where they…
From Wednesday 23 to Sunday 27 May Milan Arch Week returns, the week of events dedicated to architecture and the future of cities, promoted by the City of Milan, the Milan Polytechnic and the Milan Triennale, in collaboration with the…
Venice, Giardini di Castello – Central Pavilion May 26th – November 25th 2018 “Everyday Wonders CZ reads LCD”. The interest of scholars continues for the exceptional collaboration established since the mid-fifties between the architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni and the sculptor…
Open Art Gallery of Prato exhibits two important works by Somaini: Grande Martirio Piagato (II versione), 1960 (pewter) and Memoria dell’Apocalisse II, 1962 (bronze). MiArt April, 13th-15th, Fiera Milano City, Viale Scarampo Gate 5 Friday and Saturday: 12-20, Sunday: 11-19 PAD. 3, Gate…
It is announced that the next commission for authentications will meet on 25 and 26 May 2018. Please send the works to be examined few days before at the Milan headquarters of the archive where they will be examined by…
RECALL SCULPTURE is an exhibition of tabletop sculptures from the 1950s to the 1970s. The works come from the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), and were purchased at the biennials the Middelheim Museum organised since…
Between Figuration and Abstraction On the occasion of Frieze Masters 2017, in the London branch of the gallery, Robilant+Voena hosts an exhibition, curated by Francesca Pola, on Italian postwar sculpture . This exhibition presents works created during the pivotal moment…
The National Association of Italian Sailors (ANMI) celebrate the cinquantenaire of the monument realized by Francesco Somaini on request of the President Commander Angelo Monfrini, Vice-president Commander Luigi Gattini-Bernabò and Engineer Guido Jarach. The opening was on September the 10th 1967,…
At the Centre of Modern and Contemporary Art (CAMeC) of La Spezia is underway the”Small Size” exhibition, wich presents 196 works of 119 authors, coming from various collections. Among them, is also a sculpture by Francesco Somaini, “Piccolo Nauta” of…
Luigi Caccia Dominioni, in charge of restructuring Filodrammatici Theater, commited to sculptor Francesco Somaini the design and the execution of pavement mosaics. There’ll be exposed design drawings and wash-up inks made by Somaini starting from the plans provided by Caccia…
On Photoweek, which will take place in Milan the second week of June, the Photographic Network, upon the invitation of the Culture Advisor, adheres to the week of open archives: at the Library of Design of Palazzo dell’Arte there’ll be…
The exhibition, curated by Mauro Stefanini and accompanied by a catalogue with a critical essay by Beatrice Buscaroli, shows works of numerous Italian sculptors from Marino Marini to Luigi Mainolfi. Somaini is present with a group of sculptures realized between 1958…
On the occasion of the first edition of MUSEOCITY, an event that involves art museums, historic house museums and artist’s studio of Milan, at Triennale Design Museum is presented Contenitoreumano n.1 by Ico Parisi and Francesco Somaini, made for Salone del…
The exhibition “NEW YORK NEW YORK. The rediscovery of America: Italian Art form Futurism to Pop Art”, curated by Francesco Tedeschi, illustrates Italian art production from Futurism to the late sixties of the twentieth century, through works that have been…
The Triennale of Milan hosts an exhibition that recalls an important artistic season of Francesco Somaini, focusing on his activity in the United States. The exhibition, curated by Enrico Crispolti and Luisa Somaini, organised by Francesco Somaini Archive in partnership…
The Biennale of art and sculpture, curated by Giorgio Bonomi, presents a program of five exhibitions, set up in Palazzo dei Consoli and in Palazzo Ducale. The latter hosts a selection of sculptures realized by some of the major Italian…
For the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the historic Swiss publishing house, the Editions du Griffon celebrates with an exhibition of paintings and sculptures of the artists who have been represented in the famous book series. Among them, Somaini,…
In the exhibition curated by Antonello Rubini, are exposed two sculptures of Francesco Somaini: Phoenix, 1964, iron, and Fight with the snake, 1998, bronze. Among numerous sculptors present, Bodini, Pietro Cascella, Cavaliere, Ceroli, Cucchi, Fabbri, Fazzini, Fontana, Gilardi, Mainolfi, Marini,…
In the exhibition, curated by Claudio Spadoni, many of the artists on show demonstrated their interest in the Antiques: not only the artists that had not espoused the avant-garde research and transgressions, but also plenty of those that, despite taking…
The exhibition, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, offers a fresh, analytical look at postwar American and European art through 1979, the year of Peggy Guggenheim death. Paintings and sculptures, works both from Peggy Guggenheim’s collection and from donations to the…
COMO – Francesco Somaini. Imaging sculpture 1945-2000 Curators: Enrico Crispolti, Luisa Somaini Location: Broletto Dates: 31 october– 22 november 2015 Times: tuesday-sunday 10:00 – 12:30 and 13:30 – 17:00; monday closed LOMAZZO – “Made in Lomazzo Como Italia”. A sculptor’s…
The monumental complex of San Francesco in Cuneo hosts the exhibition Artistic excellences in Cuneo between the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Century. Among the works exposed, the model for the Monument to the “Resistence” in Cuneo, 1962, I level contest…
The exhibition, curated by Chiara Gatti and in collaboration with the cultural association “Arte a Trezzo”, presents a choice of drawings and sculptures belonging to the Mario De Micheli collection, from a group of sculptors among the most representative of…
The exhibition, curated by Enrico Crispolti, recalls some artistic installations of the famous festival “Volterra 73” through the works of Francesco Somaini, Mauro Staccioli, Mino Trafeli and Franco Mazzucchelli. Somaini participates with a series of drawings showing the reclamation of…
The exhibition gives an overview of the sculptors working in Milano between the Fifties and the Seventies, as Lucio Fontana, Fausto Melotti, Umberto Milani, Arnaldo and Giò Pomodoro, Giuseppe Spagnulo, Vittorio Tavernari. On show the work of Francesco Somaini Piccolo…
The work for the catalogue raisonné of the sculptor Francesco Somaini (1926-2005) is about to be closed. The first book, curated by Enrico Crispolti and Luisa Somaini, will be dedicated to sculpture and will be published by Skira. Collectors are…
At the Gallerie d’Italia – Piazza Scala is exhibited a selection of masterpieces, from the Intesa Sanpaolo collection, that illustrate the different researches carried on by sculptors in the second half of the 19th century around the problems of shape,…
In the Serrone of the Villa Reale of Monza, on show 30 works of the major italian sculptors of the season going from the aftermath of the II World War and the mid-Sixties: Fontana, Somaini, Melotti, Cascella, Consagra, Giò e…
Recurring this year the 450th anniversary of the master’s death, the Buonarroti House in Florence, in collaboration with the Modena Civic Gallery, organizes an exhibition on Michelangelo’s fortune and influence on 19th century art. On show the Francesco Somaini’s sculpture…
Two Somaini’s drawings, dated 1971, about the reflection of the artist upon the relationship between sculpture and urban context, will be part of the exhibition, curated by Flaminio Gualdoni, The new city. City portraits. 28 june – 16 november 2014…
In the retrospective dedicated to the work of Lucio Fontana, on show the next spring in Paris, it will be retraced his collaboration with the sculptor Francesco Somaini and the architect Ico Parisi with regard to the Contest for the…
