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…
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…
Somaini’s works belonging to MAGA collection are on show at the Serrone of the Villa Reale of Monza. The sculptures are Tracce e impronte di due matrici, 1984, basrelief in epoxy white resin, cm 133x119x5, with the two bronze matrixes…
Nauta Obliqua, 1960, bronze, cm 90x85x60, now part of theMusée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou collection, is permanently exposed in the hall n. 32 of the museum, which is reserved to the informal and gestural abstractiont art, next to…
Milan, 10-26 may Exposed an historic documentation about the participation of Somaini to the X Triennale of Milan with the sculpture Grande Motivo, 1954, concrete, within the Padiglione di Soggiorno, projected by Ico Parisi, Silvio Longhi e Luigi Antonietti. The…
Palazzo Sozzifanti, 6 april – 30 june 2013 The exhibition, curated by Lara Vinca Masini, presents 200 works belonging to the collection of Loriano Bertini of Prato. Somaini is represented by Piccolo racconto sul mare III, 1962, bronze, in the…
Francesco Somaini’s sculpture exposed will be Aracne, 1952, aluminium, cm 18×26. The exhibition, curated by Alfonso Panzetta, will be held in the Civic Museum Il Cassero for Italian sculpture of the 19th and 20th century of Montevarchi, from 9 june untill’8 september 2013. The…
Luigi Bocconi University 23 genuary – 10 april 2013 On show Somaini’s Carnificazione di un’architettura. Martirio, 1975, bronze, cm 114x62x40. The exhibition is organized with the collaboration of Roberto Franceschi Foundation.
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…
29 august – 25 november 2012 Italian Pavillion – Giardini di Castello Within the project FACECITY coordinated by Fulvio Irace, Somaini exhibits two preparatory studies for mosaic floors for apartments in Milan projected by architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni, dated 1956 and 1961 (picture on…
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…
In the exhibition “Revealing Papers. Hidden treasures of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection”, that will be held at the LuCCa Center of Contemporary Art in Lucca, will be exposed a drawing of Somaini titled Etna magico. Le pietre nere,1999, ink on…
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…
Contemporary Art Museum, Lissone, february 27- march 27 On show, two works of Somaini, iron and bronze maden, realized after typical chopping boards, once belonged to the Ico Parisi collection, now donated to the Lissone Museum. Among the artists, many…
2011 edition of “Great Exhibitions in the Stones” of Matera, already declared world heritage, will be dedicated to Francesco Somaini and will be curated by Giuseppe Appella and Luisa Somaini. On display works belonging to the artist’s archive, to italian museums and to prestigious private…
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…
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…
Ferito III. L’addio, 1960, Pewter, 12.8 x 15.8 x 14.2 in. / 32.4 x 40 x 36.2 cm Unique piece, signed, dated and numbered “Somaini 60.08” on the underside Skinner: Friday, September 24, 2010 [Lot 651] American & European Paintings &…
“Scultura affiorante per una strada di una grande città . Telamone della sotterranea” , 1974 . Indio ink with quill and bamboo on Hammer white paper ( mm. 508 x730). Signed and dated on the bottom-right corner “Somaini 1974” . This…
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.
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:
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
