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“Werk, bauen+wohnen”, Zurich – December 2013

For the occasion of the 100 birthday of the architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni, the Zurich magazine “Werk, bauen+wohnen” dedicates the whole number of December to his work. Among the articles published, Letizia Tedeschi’s and of Fulvio Irace’s texts focus on…

Sculptors’ drawings

A drawing of Somaini belonging to the series of the Metamorphosis of 1965 (once owned by Mario De Micheli) is on show from the 5th of October until the 20 at the Centrale Taccani, Trezzo sull’Adda (Milano). The exhibition is…

Francesco Somaini – Luigi Caccia Dominioni. On the move. Milano

For the occasion of Somaini’s participation in the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the review “Abitare” has published a large article about his the pavimental mosaic works realized for Luigi Caccia Dominioni’s architectures. The sculptor and the architect, indeed, had been working together…

Antonioni and Fine Arts – BOZAR, Bruxelles

Michelangelo Antonioni’s gaze and Fine Arts – Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, 10 marzo – 9 june 2013 Bruxelles, BOZAR, Palais de Beaux Arts, 22 june – 8 september 2013 The exhibition shows the creative path of the great cinema director of…

Great success for Somaini’s solo exhibition in Matera

More than 6.500 visitors in the first two months after the opening of Somaini’s solo exhibition in Matera. The exhibition is open until october 9. More informations on www.musma.it (on the side Orizzontale IV, 1959, bronze, cm 60x110x70, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte…

SOMAINI at MUSEO del NOVECENTO, Milan

The work of Francesco Somaini Verticale III. Assalonne, 1959-60, lead, is going to be part of the permanent collection of the Museo del Novecento of Milano. The opening of the new museum of contemporary art is going to be on…

HOLY GOST CHURCH, Bergamo

The restauration of the monumental work in bronze of Francesco Somaini Discesa dello Spirito Santo, realized in 1972 for the façade of the Church of the Holy Gost, Bergamo, is completed.  The Holy Gost complex dates back to the XIII century…

THE RECONSTRUCTION AGE: 1945 – 1857

  Two sculptures of Somaini will be exposed in the exibition concerning post-war art in Lombardy. The sculptures are Canto Aperto (photo), iron 1955-56, and Conquistata Impenetrabilità, iron 1956. The exibition will be held in Villa Mazzotti, Chiari (Brescia). 19 september – 1 november 2010

MONUMENTO ai MARINAI d’ITALIA, Milano

The restauration of the monumental work in bronze of Francesco Somaini, Monumento ai Marinai d’Italia, 1965-66, and of the fountain above which is located is completed. The work is situated in Corso XXII Marzo, Milan.

FUOCO – Palazzo Reale, Milano

The work of Francesco Somaini, Phoenix (1964), will be displayed in the exhibition “Fire. From Eraclito to Tiziano from Previati to Plessi”, that will be held in Palazzo Reale, Milan, from the 6 of march to the 4 of july 2010. For more information visit the following link:

THE BIG GAME. ART IN ITALY 1947-1989

Documentation related to Francesco Somaini’s work Grande Motivo  (1954) will be exposed in the section “1947-1957”  of the exhibition Il Grande Gioco (The Big Game); Grande Motivo is a great cement sculture now situated at the Soggiorno Pavillion of the Parco Sempione Library of Milan.…

FRANCESCO SOMAINI’S ATELIER

The publication of the acts of the Second International Congress on Galleries of Plaster Casts will be presented at the Canova Foundation of Possagno, which promoted this project, on the 13th of February 2010 . The book, dedicated to “Sculptors’ ateliers”, comprises a paper on Francesco…

Architect of Sculpture

Sculpture today wants to be monumental, if not in its dimensions, but at least in what concerns its spiritual proportions. It wants to be able to successfully resist the consuming action of space and light. Unwilling to be dominated by…

Somaini’s Sculptures

In consequence of the profound shake-up that the notion of morphology is undergoing at the moment, where the Euclidean shape has given way to comprehensive structure, Space has gained importance, and Form banished to a back seat role, has weakened. It…

Palma Bucarelli. Il museo come avanguardia

  The exhibition retraces the activity carried on by Palma Bucarelli as Director of the  Galleria Nazionale  d’Arte Moderna. The exhibition’s section dedicated to Italian sculpture of the ’50s – ’60s documents effectively Palma Bucarelli’s cultural orientation towards abstract and informal art, of which Somaini…

Francesco Somaini. Venice Biennale

Somaini’s sculpture – sculpture of the fragment – not the fragment of anything specific but fragment in the absolute sense. A reconstruction of the original from which the fragment was rent would show us not an object but space; to…

Urban Urgencies. A tentative conclusion

Somaini wants to replace neither the architect nor the city planner. He is not a sculpture who presumes himself capable of building cities. He is simply a sculpture who wants to act as such within the urban complex. His aim…

Francesco Somaini

Somaini himself and those critics, who have been studying his work, have explained that the problem of the present art crisis lies in the wider and more alarming actual crisis that affects the city. This crisis has causes, aspects and…

Francesco Somaini. Matrixes and evolving marks

The work of Francesco Somaini certainly does not lack deep, passionate, and emotionally involved critical analysis. These analysis are in some cases excessively emphatic, overwhelmed with symbolic references and psychoanalytical interpretations, that spring from the firm belief in the necessity…

Donation from the artist’s family to the GNAM of Rome

                 The following sculptures of Francesco Somaini have recently become part of the permanent                collection of the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna:                –  Memoria dell’Apocalisse III, 1962, polished bronze                –  Caduta dell’uomo: caduta nello spazio, 1967-69, polished bronze               …