Modern & Contemporary Exhibitions

Corrado Cagli: Mutations is the first in a tightly focused series titled “Perspectives”, the aim of which is to take a close look at some of the themes and techniques that characterised, for a certain period, the production of artists that have already been represented by Brun Fine Art in the past.

The first exhibitions in the Perspectives series will be, by force of circumstance, exclusively online.  However, we are also working on a packed calendar of on-site opportunities to view and fully appreciate the works of art in person, as early as 2021.

At the end of the 1960s, Bruno Marcucci from Cagli (Pesaro and Urbino) arrived at the Fine Arts Academy of Urbino, followed soon after by Bruno Mangiaterra from Loreto (Ancona). The two students did exactly what Concetto Pozzati (director of the Academy) was imagining when he wrote in 1972 “Our shared effort is to stimulate and build an interdisciplinary space […] so as to contribute to the training of the artist understood as technician/professional and ‘intellectual’”. The two artists’ works from the 1970s are highly emblematic and representative of the cultural climate that surrounded them in Urbino and the teachings they voraciously absorbed. The recent works of both artists are on view next to the first gallery, which features an homage to Pier Paolo Calzolari (the two students’ teacher at the time).

Brun Fine Art invites you to visit the online exhibition Oscar Piattella: Disintegration and Unity as a virtual companion to the physical exhibition currently help at the Centro Arti Visive Pescheria in Pesaro, Italy. Oscar Piattella was born in Pesaro in 1932. Taking inspiration from artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Georges Mathieu, Alberto Burri and Edgardo Manucci, Piattella uses materials that are far removed from painterly tradition. He elaborates on an own abstract visual language that considers the visions of nature and the outcomes of pictorial thinking that are characteristic for his world.

During Pitti Immagine Uomo, a new exhibition will open from June 11th, 2019 to June 30th, 2019 organized by Pandini-Brun Fine Art and One Planet One Future. The show will be hosted in the 16th Century Palazzo Larderel in Florence which is considered to be one of the most beautiful Palazzos in Italy. This collaboration will be the second time art dealer, Pilar Pandini, and leading environmental artist, Anne de Carbuccia, have come together to create a unique art experience; the first time was during Frieze London in fall 2018.

Against an entirely blank, monochrome background, ten meticulously arranged layers of metal mesh, painstakingly planned and patiently cut out by hand, create the chiaroscuro gradations that make up the faces of young women and mannequins, details of classical statuary, architectural interiors and cityscapes. 

The artist’s analytical approach to vision, which derives from his training in the graphic arts and professional experience as a photographer, led him in the early years of the new century to separate faces, bodies and natural elements into levels of light using overlapping layers of acetate and Plexiglas or strips of acetate and wood, then coming to describe his subjects, between 2007 and 2010, by cutting out a series of modules in layers of PVC mesh or incising the areas of light and shadow in paper and tulle (2014–2015). During this period, he displayed his work in London, Berlin and Amsterdam. 

Brun Fine Art is delighted to announce Jorrit Tornquist. Solar Spectrum, the new exhibition on the Austrian abstract artist Jorrit Tornquist (Graz, 1938), author and promoter of scientific studies on colours and sensory experience. Opening on Tuesday 11^th February 2020 at 38 Old Bond Street, the exhibition will explore the theme of how Tornquist creatively uses the colour, light, geometry and formal composition to interact with the viewer’s sensory perception, featuring an impressive selection of paintings and sculptures that share this common theme.

With this exhibition, Brun Fine Art is exploring the avant-garde of the Cenobio group, which emerged in 1960s Milan in a fertile, international cultural climate following the crisis of Art Informel. The group’s emergence was rooted in the teachings of Lucio Fontana (1899 – 1968) and the relationships, in some cases also collaborations, between its members and Piero Manzoni (1933 – 1963). The exhibition was developed in collaboration with the studios of the living artists and the archives where their art is preserved.

Brun Fine Art is delighted to announce the new gallery exhibition One Planet One Future. The solo exhibition will feature more than twenty photographs by French-American environmental artist Anne de Carbuccia. The aim of the exhibition is to draw attention to pressing environmental issues through the use of photographs, installations and videos. The travelling project One Planet One Future features the artistic photographs taken by Anne on her expeditions around the world to raise awareness on human-caused threats to the environment and the planet, and to promote sustainable behaviours and life styles. Her photographs have already been exhibited in museums and public institutions in Europe and America, and are part of several private collections.

Brun Fine Art is very proud to present the first UK solo show of the pioneering Italian artist Corrado Cagli (Ancona 1910-Roma 1976), also known as Maestro Cagli. The first-ever selling exhibition, titled Corrado Cagli: From Rome to New York, will be organised in collaboration with the Archivio Corrado Cagli (Rome) and will run from 23rd February, significantly the artist's day of birth, to 8th of June 2018. Curated by Alberto Mazzacchera, the show will feature over forty works by Maestro Cagli on view for the first time in the UK. Presented across the two floors of the Old Bond Street gallery, two main strands of the artist's career will be referenced: the Roman School of Painting (1920s-1930s), and the informal period (1940s-1950s). Corrado Cagli: From Rome to New York will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with introductory essays by curator Alberto Mazzacchera.