FAUSTO MELOTTI

Hauser & Wirth at ADAA The Art Show 1 – 6 March 2016

Park Avenue Armory Park Avenue at 67th Street NEW YORK NY

1 Linea dritta, infinito stabile. Linea curva, infinito instabile. Dentro allo sposalizio-contrasto vive l’opera d’arte.

A straight, infinite and steady line. A curved, infinite and unsteady line. Within this marriage-contrast exists the work of art.

– Fausto Melotti

1 Fausto Melotti pictured with ‘I Sette Savi’ (1960)

2 3 INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE ARTIST

Hauser & Wirth is pleased to participate for the first time at ADAA The Art Show, During the early years of his artistic career, Fausto Melotti developed firm with a solo presentation of works by Fausto Melotti (1901 – 1986), the Italian ideas about the relationship of abstract art to architecture, music, science and sculptor, installation artist, and poet admired for his unique contribution to the mathematics. ‘Greek architecture, Piero della Francesca’s paintings, Bach’s development of mid-century European Modernism. music, rationalist architecture – these are all ‘exact’ arts’, he wrote in 1935. In prewar Milan, Melotti was active among the artistic milieu, befriending the Through a selection of works spanning Melotti’s career – from the early circle of Rationalist architects of Gruppo 7 and joining the group of abstract terracotta Teatrini, to his signature, lithe brass sculptures – the booth traces artists who gravitated around Galleria del Milione. Influenced by his education the artist’s relationship with ‘the square’. Melotti studied music, mathematics in engineering and music, Melotti’s first abstract sculptures were geometrical, and engineering, disciplines that exerted clear influence upon his distinctive and echoed the young artist’s academic training in order, rhythm, proportions practice, however the square functioned as more than a geometric concept. and form. For Melotti, the shape was also a key structural device – it defined a space within which he could play-out his theatrical narratives and explore the The devastation brought by World War II resulted in a 20-year period of silence emotive possibilities of abstraction. and isolation in Melotti’s studio practice, which ultimately and profoundly altered his artistic vision. Much of his early work was destroyed by bombing In a brief poem, Melotti encapsulates his approach to line and space: during the war years, causing what would become a literal and symbolic rupture in the idealised abstraction of Melotti’s formative years. By the Linea dritta, infinito stabile. beginning of the 1960s, the artist had faithfully returned to sculpture, using a Linea curva, infinito instabile. new language of delicate threads and thin sheets of brass, iron, and gold to Dentro allo sposalizio-contrasto vive l’opera d’arte. express a more figurative, humanist style.

A straight, infinite and steady line. With the introduction of figures into his work, Melotti produced his Teatrini, a A curved, infinite and unsteady line. series of enchanting, exquisitely crafted works rendered in ceramic, depicting Within this marriage-contrast exists the work of art. fantastical characters and surrealist narratives both universal and highly personal. These enigmatic miniature stage sets are alive with emotional and The focused presentation at The Art Show will be followed in April 2016 by poetic tension, balancing between representation and abstraction. The Teatrini Hauser & Wirth’s first-ever Fausto Melotti solo exhibition, curated by Douglas series fully encapsulates the lyricism and whimsy of Melotti’s post-war practice. Fogle and accompanied by a new publication. Melotti’s work of the mid-1960s and 1970s is perhaps his best known and represents a transformational period for the artist. Delicately wrought, almost fragile constructions became enriched by a new narrative, dream-like and symbolic. These weightless works resemble aerial drawings incorporating space, air and transparency.

In later years, Melotti enjoyed critical success in Europe, with a first retrospective at Museum Ostwall Dortmund, Germany, in 1971. Melotti died in 1986, and was posthumously awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale that year.

4 5 Scultura n. 25 (Sculpture No. 25) 1935 (1976) Plexiglas 184 x 112 x 20 cm / 72 1/2 x 44 1/8 x 7 7/8 in

6 7 Executed in 1976, ‘Scultura n. 25’ was conceived in 1935, in the earliest years of Melotti’s sculptural practice, and belongs to a series of architectural sculptures executed in pure white. Segmented into three rectangular sections of varying dimensions, the upper right partition is divided by rippling vertical bands, evocative of the plucked strings of a musical instrument or the lines of a stave. Yet, the overall effect of the sculpture is the purity of absolute silence. In Germano Celant’s words, the sculptures of 1935 represent ‘a pause halfway between the seen and the unseen, the linear and the curved, the solid and the empty’. Unable to reconcile the purity of these first, dazzling works with the trauma of a world ravaged by human cruelty, in the years that followed their execution Melotti underwent a period of prolonged artistic silence that would last until his triumphant return to the art world in the 1960s.

Melotti had his first exhibition at the Galleria del Milione in Milan in 1935. Rejecting traditional sculptural parameters of volume and form, the works exhibited were abstract, made from neutral white plaster or fine metal. These first works gave way to a series of sculptures that would occupy Melotti throughout 1935. Dematerialised and penetrable, these works incorporate the empty space that passes through them.

Fusing the artist’s love of mathematics and music, they are both geometrically and rhythmically balanced; their rigorous proportions harmoniously combine straight and curved lines with concave and convex forms. Melotti observed, ‘We would consider these things not architectural elements, but as expressions of pure form, that is, as examples of the harmonious occupation of space’. Melotti’s catalogue essay from his first 1935 exhibition is crucial to an understanding of his artistic vision at this time. For him, abstract art, inherited from a long line of skilled architectural practitioners, was the purest of all formal problems. He wrote, ‘Form, harmony in space, doesn’t care about plaster, marble, or bronze. The way a Doric column fills space doesn’t change if we replace marble with disguised plaster. The love for material (sensuousness, naturalism) has nothing to do with art. Abstract art.’

Poised at the inception of his practice, balanced between geometry and poetry, silence and melody, ‘Scultura n. 25’ embodies the dualities that would come to define Melotti’s post-war oeuvre.

8 9 Le mani (The Hands) 1949 Painted terracotta, brass 35 x 29 x 9 cm / 13 3/4 x 11 3/8 x 3 1/2 in

10 11 A mature example of the Teatrini that occupied Fausto Melotti from as far back as the 1920s until the end of his career, ‘Le mani’ (1943) showcases the artist’s effortless synthesis of narrative abstraction and meticulous craftsmanship.

Described by Melotti as his ‘Lieder’ – expressive compositions in the manner of the German Romantic tradition – the Teatrini impart metaphysical dramas played out on an intimate scale and are deliberately left open to a variety of interpretations. Creating a mysterious and enigmatic theatrical space, the narrative power of these work rests on a subtle balance between representation and abstraction, emotional and poetic tension, all of which solicits the imagination of the viewer.

In ‘Le mani’, the open-front box modelled from mottled clay is painted in warm autumnal colours, evoking the sun-baked hues of a Mediterranean village. Inside is a scene in two acts: the hands in relief appear to be warming themselves over a fire, or perhaps they are enveloped in a soft, rich fabric; opposite, the hard metal face corrugates. The distance between the two parts that reverberates in the square vacuum, is expressed in a sensitive, balanced silence. Soliloquy as well as absorption are expressed in a metaphysical container, as in a page of Melotti’s poetry.

12 13 Con gli specchi (With Mirrors) 1979 Brass, clay, mirror 54 x 81 x 11.5 cm / 21 1/4 x 31 7/8 x 4 1/2 in

14 15 Segmented into eight panels arranged on two levels, ‘Con gli specchi (With Mirrors)’(1979), plays with a musical understanding of counterpoint. Melotti crafts a polyphonic narrative in which each chamber of the sculpture contains a different tableau corresponding to individual moments from a woman’s day. They are interspersed by intermissions indicated by diaphanous skeins of brass that hang in bands from the rungs of the sculpture.

The first tableau of the series shows the figure in repose, her hair flowing freely behind her. Moving along the upper row, beyond the ascending ladder, a woman’s face gazes ahead into an elliptical mirror, which, from certain angles, becomes a musical note. On the lower row, a configuration of twisted lines evoke figures in conversation; arms raised in animation, they are reflected in a long, rectangular mirror. In the final tableau of the sequence, two figures crafted from parallel bars intersect, as though a happy couple coming together at the end of a long day.

‘Con gli specchi (With Mirrors)’ expresses the gaiety with which Melotti created sculpture, drawing upon the theatrical genius first documented in the Teatrini. Melotti left the Teatrini deliberately open to a variety of interpretations, but ‘Con gli specchi (With the mirrors)’ unfolds like the narrative of a play, each act divided by an interval that allows the audience to gather their thoughts. Unlike in the early Teatrini, Melotti’s later works play on human emotions, crafting relationships from mere twists and turns of delicate brass, expressing joy and sadness, hope and fear, love and loneliness, with the purity of silence.

16 17 Contrappunto catenelle (Counterpoint Little Chains) 1973 Gold 40 x 40 x 15 cm / 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 5 7/8 in

18 19 Shaped from shimmering rods of fine gold, ‘Contrappunto catenelle’ (Counterpart Little Chains) (1973), encapsulates Melotti’s lyrical approach to sculpture. Perfectly poised between abstract and figurative, music and sculpture, the work occupies a dreamlike space. The curved and spiralling note-like forms appear to almost dance through the air, imbuing the structure with an ethereal beauty inflected with Surrealist mystery.

Behind the seemingly blithe and intuitive character of the composition, resides a deep conception of art as a rigorous exercise in order and harmony. As inferred by the title, ‘Contrappunto catanelle’ (Counterpart Little Chains) is rooted in combinatorial logic; within the adjacent square cages the rules of contrapuntal musical arrangement are realised in the sculptural density of voids and solids. Through his deft manipulation of fine metal, Melotti created a unique acoustic language and in ‘Contrappunto catanelle’ he brings-to- life two elegant melodies, two independent scores set in perfect harmony.

20 21 Canone fisso (Fixed Canon) 1971 Gold 22 x 22 x 22 cm / 8 5/8 x 8 5/8 x 8 5/8 in

22 23 Tre tempi (Three Movements) 1971 Brass 30.5 x 30.5 x 6 cm / 12 x 12 x 2 3/8 in

24 25 ‘Melotti was obsessed with putting things in boxes, with imprisonment of the complex form.’

– Walter Scelsi

26 27 Contrappunto XI (Counterpoint XI) 1974 Stainless steel 100 x 100 x 30 cm / 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 x 11 3/4 in

28 29 Senza titolo (Untitled) 1984 Plaster, mixed media 53 x 52 x 4 cm / 20 7/8 x 20 1/2 x 1 5/8 in

30 31 Coming of age during the first decades of the 20th Century, Melotti was intrigued by the wide range of media explored by the avant-garde movements blossoming at the time. This type of creative freedom marked Melotti’s own sculptural practice, and over his lifetime he moved without restraint among plaster, ceramics and metal.

Much of his work in the 1930s was devoted to modestly scaled, abstract bas- reliefs in plaster, which he first exhibited at Galleria del Milione in Milan in 1935. The very use of plaster as the end result amounted to a rejection of artistic convention, insofar as it had been traditionally used as a means to model work to be ultimately realised in marble or bronze.

Melotti’s investigation of planar volumes underlined his dismissal of the monumental in favour of an instant, intimate, even domestic, way of making art that continued throughout his career. Although Melotti gained renown for his elegant, spiritual works in metal in the 1960s and 1970s, he remained dedicated to examining the boundaries of two- and three-dimension in his plaster bas-reliefs.

Often faced with the criticism that his works in plaster and ceramic were merely decorative, Melotti opposed this term and staunchly ascribed to the label of sculptor. Despite the deep metaphysical rumination underlying much of his work, Melotti described his process for completing his bas-reliefs as, ‘the game of an adult with the ability to see things with the amazement and immediacy of a child.’

32 33 Senza titolo (Untitled) 1973 Plaster, mixed media, brass 50 x 70 x 4.5 cm / 19 5/8 x 27 1/2 x 1 3/4 in

34 35 ‘The adventure of the piece of ceramic that enters the oven amorphous and emerges in full party dress is the source of an exciting joy, an indefinite limit between sense and beauty. It’s like a holiday trip into a world that is more fairy-like [féerique] than magical, a world where expressions like joy in work find value and meaning.’

– Fausto Melotti

36 37 perfection of geometry, mathematics and – as ever in his work – music, with the EDUARDO GNEMMI & MARTA MELOTTI fundamentals of harmony and the rhythm of counterpoint. His contemporaries’ IN CONVERSATION reactions to his works were discordant: an artist like Carrà described them as intelligent but not sculpture. These works are now considered cornerstones of Edoardo Gnemmi, Director of the Fondazione Fausto Melotti and Marta Melotti, the artist’s European abstract art. The only regret is that not all of them have survived. daughter, contextualise Melotti in relation to his contemporaries, the creative landscape of post-war Europe and the critical perception of his work. HW: Musical reference points and mathematical processes are prevalent throughout Melotti’s work. How did his engineering background and musical Hauser & Wirth: Could you tell me about Melotti’s major bodies of work and, education influence his practice? above all, the abstract sculptures he made in 1934 – 1935? Marta Melotti: Melotti was a natural at mathematics, and he graduated Eduardo Gnemmi: Fausto Melotti’s oeuvre is impossible to summarise. in engineering from the Politecnico in Milan, but his passion was always Consciously and unconsciously, he always avoided labels and conventions. music. He played the piano, and many of his relatives, from cousins to sisters, If I had to find some categories or directions to ‘shoehorn’ his works into, I would dedicated themselves to music. After moving to Turin, where he assisted his look at his early figurative sculptures, his historic numbered abstract sculptures uncle who was a sculptor, he moved to Milan to study at the Accademia di from 1934 – 1935 (echoed in sculptures ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’, etc, around 1970), the Brera. His love of music and mathematics conditioned all his decisions about metaphysical figures of ‘Costante Uomo’ (Constant Man) (1936) and the ‘Sette his art. His sense of geometry and harmony, he said, enabled him not to make Savi’ (Seven Sages) (1960), the stylised terracottas from the 1940s, the ceramics mistakes and not to ‘deviate’ towards nature and, hence, into error. from the 1940s and especially the 1950s, the series of ‘Teatrini’, the sculptures ‘drawn in space’ made of brass, stainless steel, gold or other materials from HW: Melotti had some prominent contemporaries spanning key artists in the the late 1950s, the bas-reliefs, and the monumental sculptures from the European avant-garde. Who do you think were the most important influences 1970s presaged remarkably in the environmental work in the ‘Coerenza’ on his work? Can you talk a bit more about his friendships with other great (Coherence) room of 1936 or in the presentation of a 12-metre-high wall of 800 twentieth-century artists? ceramics for the Universal Exhibition of 1942. This is all extremely reductive and frustrating; a highly celebrated work like ‘Il Canal Grande’ (The Grand Canal) EG: In the extraordinary milieu of 1960s Milan, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni (1963), for example, does not fit into any of those categories. and Melotti were recognised as the three indisputably great masters. But Melotti is a particular character; he hated classifications, considering them reductive. As regards to the sculptures from 1934 to 1935, we should start by saying He always said that he was inspired by Piero della Francesca, classical Greece, that, between the wars, Italy – and hence Italian art – were going through Cézanne, Matisse, Kandinsky and, above all, his beloved Bach, Beethoven, a culturally dark, stagnant period. After Futurism, or the metaphysics of the Mozart, Stravinsky and Brahms. 1910s, it took until 1935 before Italian art regained an international dimension. That year, a text emerged that Wassily Kandinsky described as the bible of Additionally, from a young age, Melotti frequented a galaxy of important artists abstract art: ‘KN’, published by Galleria Il Milione in Milan through Melotti’s from different disciplines or movements, including some of his relatives, such as cousin and close friend Carlo Belli. Meanwhile, in the same gallery, Melotti his cousin Carlo Belli. He knew the Futurism of Fortunato Depero and architect presented a remarkable group of abstract sculptures identified with a number Luciano Baldessari, as well as the sculpture of Accademia di Brera teacher only, ‘Scultura n. 3’, ‘Scultura n. 4’ (Sculpture no. 3, Sculpture no. 4, etc.). Adolfo Wildt and Arturo Martini, who in the 1940s went to fire his terracottas in Melotti’s muffle kiln. He was exposed to the Spatialism of Lucio Fontana, a Their extreme purity and formal rigour demand a marked involvement of lifelong friend since their studies in Brera, the architectural rationalism of Gino the intellect, at the expense of the senses. Melotti eschews any naturalistic or Pollini (his brother-in-law), Giuseppe Terragni and Baldessari again, and the figurative reference, and the material used, be it plaster, bronze, iron or clay, music of Maurizio Pollini (his nephew). He was familiar with the design of his is afforded no importance. What counts for Melotti, what inspires him, is the friend Giò Ponti, the writings of Giovanni and Vanni Scheiwiller’s publishing

38 39 company that brought out Melotti’s first book of poetry back in 1944, and EG: The Teatrini are a series of just over 60 very special works that Melotti began he was certainly also close to the metaphysics of Giorgio De Chirico and his to produce as far back as the second half of the 1920s. Various drawings from brother Alberto Savinio’s poetic philosophy. All these stimuli and his insatiable that period exist that presaged terracotta works such as L’eco (The Echo) (1945) creativity generated bodies of work that are remarkably diverse yet consistent or Le Mani (The Hands) (1949) and especially the Teatrino, commonly dated with his multifaceted personality. 1931 – 1950. Its initial idea and structure were conceived in 1931, while the figures inside were modified over the next two decades. HW: Melotti is known for his prolific use of various materials. How did he choose them? The Teatrini are little stories. He described them as his ‘Lieder’, referring to the musical compositions typical of German romanticism encapsulating themes MM: Melotti used ceramics, terracotta, steel, iron, copper, brass, gold, silver, of love or dedications. They are actual metaphysical dwellings where tales or crystal, marble, stone, bronze, plaster and even textiles, cardboard, fabric, dramas full of sophisticated lyricism play out, such as ‘Meditazione Domestica’ glass, string, wood and most probably others as well. But for him the material (Domestic Meditation) (1959), and the heart-tugging ‘Buona Notte Bambini’ is misleading, and only rarely vital and irreplaceable. Once, he took as an (Goodnight Children) (1984) or ‘Preghiera per i Bambini Ebrei morti nei campi examplethe art of Bach’s Fugue composed as pure music, for a group of di sterminio’ (Prayer for Jewish Children Killed in Extermination Camps) (1973). instruments rather than for specific ones; he compared this choice to the self- sufficiency of art with respect to its material. HW: Marta, do you have a favourite piece by your father?

He chose his materials, such as thin metal and wire, because it enabled MM: Orpheus is certainly a theme that recurs several times and in very different him to work as if he was drawing – metal allowed him to draw in space. No ways, from his youthful drawings to ‘Ultimo Canto di Orfeo’ (Orpheus’ last material was more or less noble than the others. All that mattered was whether song) from 1979. In classical Greek culture, Orpheus is the artist par excellence, it enabled him in that context to meet the three requirements for a sculpture: who could enchant with his music and whose legend embraces fundamental an essential concept, musical sense, and sculptural invention. values for my father, such as love, art, music, death and rebirth.

HW: How did your father describe the impact of the World Wars on his life and HW: It seems that a critical reappraisal of Melotti’s work is beginning to happen, practice? would you say?

MM: The two World Wars were incurable, indelible wounds for him. His studio EG: In 2013, a couple of exhibitions considered Melotti alongside other artists. In was bombed and destroyed in 1943, but irrespective of that, he said that the Europe, the art museum in Lugano compared him with Paul Klee, while the wars gave him no peace, even at night, which is why there were gaps in his Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas dedicated an exhibition, ‘Return to Earth’, activity. Wars trap people inside themselves, filling their souls, even without to sculptures by Fontana, Melotti, Mirò, Noguchi and Picasso. Personally, I their realising. would even liken him connected to figures such as Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti and Joseph Cornell. In addition, a solo exhibition about him curated In his long career, he named works after concentration camps, dead heroes, by Eva Fabbris and Cristiano Raimondi is on view at the NMNM Nouveau people condemned to death, Jewish children killed in extermination camps, musée national in Monaco, focusing on Melotti’s specific relationship with Giò the persecuted, dictators, Apartheid and even simply wickedness. And then Ponti and DOMUS magazine. his next sculpture would be about joy or tenderness. He was like that. He always said that he was in love with freedom and that he believed in goodness, in HW: There is something intrinsically Italian, or at least European, about Melotti’s charity and in tenderness. practice. Do you see this as key to the perception of his oeuvre? Has this affected a perception or understanding of Melotti in the US? HW: Is there a grand narrative behind his Teatrini? What inspired his figurative work? EG: I think that on the other side of the Atlantic there is still some confusion

40 41 or inability to understand the various directions that Melotti took, which I mentioned earlier. That is the destiny of someone who constantly reinvents CURRICULUM VITAE himself. His genius was clear then to anyone who came across him or his work, Born in Rovereto, Trento, Italy, 1901 but Melotti was against the critics’ habit of labelling or classifying, and his art could certainly not be compartmentalised into fixed rules or ‘isms’. Even after Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Pisa, Italy, 1918 - 1919 his death, America has not had the chance to illuminate the various aspects of Degree in Electrotechnical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy, 1924 his art, to explore in depth a 60-year journey of continual evolution. Studied sculpture, as a student of sculptor Adolfo Wildt alongside Lucio Fontana, and graduated from the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, Italy, 1928 - 1929 Have any unknown sculptures recently been uncovered? First solo exhibition at Galleria del Milione in Milan, joined the Paris-based movement Abstraction-Création, 1935

MM: In the last 20 years, in other words, since the general catalogue was Lived in Rome, Italy, 1941 - 1942 completed, around 100 sculptures have come to light, some of which are Died in Milan, Italy, 1986 absolute masterpieces. Some works have been acquired by museums. I believe that this body of work needs to be publicised and that my father’s works should Solo Exhibitions be made easily accessible to larger and larger audiences. Therefore, the first 2016 step will be to develop the Fausto Melotti Foundation website and then to make Hauser & Wirth New York, 69 th Street, New York NY his whole artistic oeuvre visible online. 2015 Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Villa Paloma, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Monaco, Monaco

2014 Galleria d’Arte RoccaTre, ‘Fausto Melotti. Works on Paper’, Turin, Italy Galería Elvira González, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Madrid, Spain Austin / Desmon Fine Art, ‘Fausto Melotti & Giulio Paolini. Sculpture and Collage’, London, England Barbara Mathes Gallery, ‘Fausto Melotti. Sculpture & Ceramics’, New York NY Galerie Karsten Greve, ‘Il Mondo di Fausto Melotti’, Paris, France Monica de Cardenas Galleria, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Milano, Italy Peggy Guggenheim Collection, ‘Homage to Fausto Melotti’, Venice Italy

2013 Marino Marini Museum, ‘Melotti Guarda Melotti. Melotti Looks at Melotti’, Florence, Italy Waddington Custot Galleries, ‘Fausto Melotti. Theatre of Life’, London, England Ronchini Gallery, ‘Calder & Melotti. Children of the Sky’, Ronchini Gallery, London, England Museo d’Arte, ‘Klee – Melotti’, Lugano, Switzerland Malpensa Airport, ‘Fausto Melotti. I Sette Savi’, Milan, Italy Barbara Mathes Gallery, ‘Fausto Melotti. Works on Paper and Plaster’, New York NY

2012 Galleria Repetto, ‘Dei Misteri Eleusini. Fausto Melotti’, Milan, Italy MART - Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, ‘Angelico geometrico’, Rovereto, Italy Il Chiostro Arte Contemporanea, ‘Fausto Melotti. Ritmi d’ottone e fragili terre’, Saronno, Italy MUSMA - Museo della Scultura Contemporanea, ‘Fausto Melotti nel ritratto degli amici’, Matera, Italy MUSMA - Museo della Scultura Contemporanea, ‘Via Crucis di Fausto Melotti’, Matera, Italy

2011 Barbara Mathes Gallery, ‘Fausto Melotti. Sculpture & Ceramics’, New York NY Madre - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, ‘Melotti’, Napoli, Italy Kunstmuseum Winterthur, ‘Fausto Melotti – Akrobat der Moderne’, Winterthur, Switzerland Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, ‘Paul Klee, Fausto Melotti – Eine Blume tritt auf’, Dusseldorf, Germany

2010 Kunsthalle Mannheim, ‘Fausto Melotti Akrobat der Moderne’, Mannheim, Germay Galleria d’Arte Roccatre, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Turin, Italy Galleria Repetto, ‘Fausto Melotti – L’angelo necessario’, Acqui Terme, Italy

42 43 Gladstone Gallery, ‘I magnifici sette’, New York NY Musée Nicolas Sursock, ‘Fausto Melotti Sculptures – Peintures – Plâtres – Céramiques – Incisions’, Beirut, Lebanon Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, ‘Fausto Melotti graphikós’, Florence, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)

2009 2000 Ankamall Shopping Center, ‘Fausto Melotti. Un grande artista dell’astrattismo italiano. Sculture, tecniche miste, Museo della Permanente, ‘Scultura 17’, Milan, Italy acqueforti, acquetinta, grafiche’, Ankara, Turkey Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, ‘Fausto Melotti. Ratio und Strenge – Spiel und Poesie. Retrospektive 1928–1986’, Galleria Il Segno, ‘Fausto Melotti. Disegni e ceramiche Opere 1927 – 1985. Matite, Tempere, Ceramiche, Gessi e Duisburg, Germany (Travelling Exhibition) Terracotte’, Rome, Italy Turkish and Islamic Art Museum, ‘Fausto Melotti. Opere 1950–1984 Sculture–Dipinti–Gessi–Ceramiche–Incisioni’, Galleria dell’Incisione, ‘Fausto Melotti. Carte uniche e rare’, Brescia, Italy Istanbul, Turkey Galleria La Scaletta, ‘Fausto Melotti Disegni e ceramiche 100 Opere 1927 – 1985. Matite, Tempere, Ceramiche, Gessi e Institut Mathildenhöhe, ‘Fausto Melotti. Ratio und Strenge – Spiel und Poesie. Retrospektive 1928–1986’, Darmstadt, Terracotte’, San Polo di Reggio Emilia, Italy Germany (Travelling Exhibition) Santuario della Beata Vergine Maria di Loreto, ‘Fausto Melotti e Presepi’, Osnago, Italy Fondazione Bandera per l’Arte, ‘Fausto Melotti. Segno, musica e poesia’, Busto Arsizio, Italy Galleria Transarte, ‘Fausto Melotti, lo spazio inquieto. Incisioni, disegni, ceramiche, sculture’, Rovereto, Italy Le Case d’Arte, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Milan, Italy

2008 1999 Gladstone Gallery, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Brussels, Belgium Museo del Centro Arredo Cantù, Melotti e la scuola di Cantù’, Cantù, Italy Italian Cultural Institute, ‘Fausto Melotti I Viaggi: la Fantasia non ha confini’, New York NY Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, ‘Fausto Melotti Sculptures’, New York NY Acquavella Galleries, ‘Fausto Melotti’, New York NY Galleria d’Arte Maggiore, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Bologna, Italy Galleria Christian Stein, ‘Melotti – La Decorazione La Pittura L’Architettura’, Milan, Italy Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, ‘Fausto Melotti 1901–1986’, Nagoya, Japan

2007 1998 Barbara Mathes Gallery, ‘Calder – Melotti. Lyrical Constructions’, New York NY Galleria La Scaletta, ‘Fausto Melotti. Disegni e Ceramiche Opere 1952 – 1985. Matite, Acquerelli, Tempere, Bassorilievi, Ceramiche, Gessi, Multipli, Acqueforti’, S. Polo di Reggio Emilia, Italy 2006 Galleria d’Arte Il Sipario, ‘Fausto Melotti. Opere su carta 1955–1985’, Parma, Italy 1997 Museo Pericle Fazzini, Palazzo del Capitano del Perdono, Fausto Melotti – Disegni 1978 – 1985’, Assisi, Italy Galleria Bottega d’Arte, ‘Fausto Melotti Opere su carta’, Acqui Terme, Italy CAMeC - Centro di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, ‘Melotti. Consonanze con Castellani Fabro Paolini’, La Spezia, Galleria San Fedele, ‘Fausto Melotti, opere dalle collezioni milanesi’, Milan, Italy Italy Studio Casoli, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Rome, Italy Galerie Karsten Greve, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Paris, France Pinacoteca Civica, ‘Fausto Melotti. Teatrini 1931–1985’, Como, Italy Waddington Galleries, ‘Fausto Melotti Sculptures and Works on Paper from 1955 to 1983’, London, England Galleria d’Arte Cristina Busi, ‘Fausto Melotti. Opere su carta’, Chiavari, Italy 1996 Galleria Dello Scudo, ‘Fausto Melotti. Teatrini 1931–1985’, Verona, Italy 2005 Castello di Sartirana, ‘Omaggio a Fausto Melotti’, Sartirana Lomellina, Italy Galleria Daniela Rallo, ‘Fausto Melotti. Alchimie musicali nello spazio’, Cremona, Italy La Marrana, ‘Il gioco di Melotti’, Montemarcello, Italy Galerie Karsten Greve, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Cologne, Germany Archivio del ‘900, ‘Melotti nella collezione del Mart’, Rovereto, Italy Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, ‘Fausto Melotti, Madrid, Spain Galleria dell’Artistico, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Treviso, Italy Museo Fondazione Luciana Matalon, ‘Fausto Melotti – Opere della maturità. Sculture e incisioni’, Milan, Italy Galerie Lawrence Rubin, ‘Fausto Melotti und Lucio Fontana’, Zurich, Switzerland

2004 1995 Palazzo Binelli, ‘Melotti. Opere su carta’, Carrara, Italy Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, ‘L’amore a Celle – I Melotti di casa Gori’, Prato, Italy MAC - Musée des Arts Contemporains Grand–Hornu, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Hornu, Belgium Whanki Museum/Nine Gallery, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Seoul, Japan Galleria Arte Centro, ‘Fausto Melotti Ingegneria per sognare’, Milan, Italy Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, ‘Fausto Melotti. Pensiero inciso’, Bra, Italy Forni Scultura, ‘Fausto Melotti. Opere 1944 – 1986. Sculture, bassorilievi e carte’, Bologna, Italy 2003 Galleria Anna D’Ascanio, ‘Giacometti disegni – Melotti sculture’, Rome, Italy Amedeo Porro Arte Moderna and Contemporanea, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Milan, Italy Galleria Arte Centro, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Milan, Italy Galleria Bottega d’Arte, ‘Melotti. Opere dipinte’, Acqui Terme, Italy Mart, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, ‘Fausto Melotti. L’opera in ceramica’, Rovereto, 1994 Italy IVAM Centro Julio Gonzàles, ‘Melotti’, Valencia, Sain Liceo Artistico Statale Umberto Boccioni, ‘Fausto Melotti. Segno’, Milan, Italy Paolo Baldacci Gallery, ‘Fausto Melotti Anti–sculpture’, New York NY Galleria Fioretto, ‘Melotti’, Padua, Italy 2002 Leo Castelli Gallery, ‘Fausto Melotti’, New York NY 1993 Musée Picasso, ‘Fausto Melotti. L’art du contrepoint’, Antibes, France Istituto d’Arte Fortunato Depero, ‘Fausto Melotti. L’opera incisa’, Rovereto, Italy Il Segno, ‘Omaggio a Fausto Melotti. Acquarelli, disegni, sculture e ceramiche’, Rome, Italy 1992 2001 Galleria Arte Bersani, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Finale Ligure, Italy Compagnia di Belle Arti, ‘Fausto Melotti…ma l’arte è un viaggio’, Milan, Italy Spazia studio d’arte, ‘Fausto Melotti. Sculture e ceramiche’, Bologna, Italy Museo Virgiliano di Pietole, ‘Omaggio a Fausto Melotti Disegni. 1980–1985’, Virgilio-Mantua, Italy Palazzo Libera, ‘Fausto Melotti. La descrizione dell’invisibile’, Villa Lagarina, Italy 1991 Institut Jozef Stefan, ‘Fausto Melotti Sculture–Dipinti–Gessi–Ceramiche–Incisioni’, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Travelling Galleria Eva Menzio, ‘Fausto Melotti. Sculture e disegni’, Turin, Italy Exhibition) Villa Arconati, ‘Fausto Melotti. Sequenze d’amore’, Bollate, Italy Carlina Galleria d’Arte, ‘Fausto Melotti. Le carte e la scultura’, Turin, Italy Galleria dello Scudo, ‘Fausto Melotti. Sculture 1967 – 1985’, Verona, Italy

44 45 Galleria Bottega d’arte, Acqui Terme, Italy 1983 Galleria Tega, ‘Melotti’, Milan, Italy Galerie Carla Fuehr, ‘Melotti’, Munich, Germany Galleria L’Eroica, ‘Fausto Melotti. Opere in ceramica anni ’50’, Milan, Italy Galleria Ellequadro, ‘Melotti’, Genoa, Italy Galleria Peccolo, ‘Fausto Melotti. Acquarelli e sculture’, Livorno, Italy 1990 Galleria Improvvisazione Prima, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Trento, Italy Museo Cantonale d’Arte, ‘Fausto Melotti. Opere 1934–1984’, Lugano, Switzerland Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Rome, Italy Kodama Gallery, ‘Melotti’, Osaka, Japan Galleria San Luca, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Bologna, Italy Palazzo Fortuny, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Venice, Italy Galleria Pantha Arte, Como, Italy Galleria Di Meo, ‘Melotti’, Paris, France Galleria Spatia, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Bolzano, Italy Galleria Graphica Club, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Milan, Italy 1989 Galleria Pancheri, ‘Fausto Melotti. Sculture gessi dipinti tecniche miste’, Rovereto, Italy Galleria Civica Palazzo Todeschini, ‘Melotti. Sculture e disegni’, Desenzano del Garda, Italy Galleria Il Punto Sette, ‘Melotti –Veronesi’, Busto Arsizio, Italy Montrasio Arte, ‘Soloe di Fausto Melotti’, Monza, Italy 1988 Centro d’Arte Santelmo, Fausto Melotti’, Salò, Italy Vismara Arte, ‘Lucio Fontana, Fausto Melotti’, Milan, Italy Galleria d’Arte L’Incontro, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Imola, Italy Galleria d’arte Il Cenacolo, ‘Fausto Melotti. Disegni e tecniche miste 1976 – 1985’, Trento, Italy Pinacoteca Comunale Galleria d’Arte Moderna Marco Moretti and Chiesa di Sant’Agostino, ‘Fausto Melotti alla 1982 stamperia Sciardelli’, Civitanova Marche, Italy Galleria Corsini, ‘“…un’opera d’arte è un’oasi” Fausto Melotti. Sculture e Acquarelli’, Intra, Italy Galleria Il Punto Sette, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Busto Arsizio, Italy Galleria Planetario, ‘Melotti’, Trieste, Italy L’Arco, Studio Internazionale d’Arte Grafica, ‘Un anno di Fausto Melotti’, Rome, Italy 1987 Galleria Spatia, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Bolzano, Italy Galleria Editalia Qui arte contemporanea, ‘Melotti. Dipinti e sculture’, Rome, Italy Stevens–Arte Contemporanea, ‘Fausto Melotti. Sculture, tecniche miste e incisioni’, Padua, Italy Elisabeth Franck Gallery, ‘Melotti’, Knokke–Le Zoute, Belgium Galleria d’Arte Martano, ‘Fausto Melotti. Sculture, tecniche miste, disegni, grafica’, Turin, Italy Chiese rupestri Madonna delle Virtù e San Nicola dei Greci. Palazzo Lanfranchi, ‘Melotti. 1901–1986’, Matera, Italy Galerie Lopes, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Zurich, Switzerland Centro Congressi La Serra, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Ivrea, Italy Galleria d’Arte Il Millennio, ‘Fausto Melotti Trentatré disegni, sei sculture’, Rome, Italy Politecnico di Milan, Dipartimento di elettrotecnica, ‘L’ingegner Fausto Melotti scultore e poeta’, Milan, Italy Associazione Culturale l’Uomo e l’Arte, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Biella, Italy 1981 Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, ‘Fausto Melotti. L’acrobata invisibile’, Milan, Italy Museo Civico Enrico Butti, ‘Fausto Melotti. La dimensione del disegno’, Viggiu, Italy Pero arte contemporanea, ‘Fausto Melotti. Pitture’, Milan, Italy Galerie Lopes AG, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Zurich, Switzerland Galleria Seno, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Milan, Italy Forte di Belvedere, ‘Melotti’, Florence, Italy Studio Bonifacio, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Genoa, Italy Musée des Beaux–Arts, ‘Fausto Melotti’, La Chaux-de-Fonds, France Galleria Duchamp, ‘Fausto Melotti. Joan Miró’, Cagliari, Switzerland (Travelling Exhibition) 1986 Il Mercante di Stampe, ‘Fausto Melotti–Grafica’, Milan, Italy Galleria San Luca, ‘Melotti’, Genua, Italy Vismara Arte Contemporanea, ‘Fontana–Melotti. Pitture sculture disegni’, Milan, Italy Marie–Louise Janneret Art Moderne, ‘Hommage a Fausto Melotti’, Geneve, Switzerland Galleria Morone 6, ‘Fausto Melotti. Joan Miró’, Milan, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Galleria Bottega d’Arte, ‘Fausto Melotti. Sculture acquarelli disegni’, Acqui Terme, Italy Lo Spazio, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Verona, Italy 1980 Galleria Pero, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Milan, Italy Galerie Wintersberger, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Cologne, Germany Galleria Narciso, ‘Arp e Melotti. Poesia come gioco’, Turin, Italy Frankfurter Westend Galerie, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Galleria Pancheri, ‘Melotti’, Rovereto, Italy Villa Cicogna, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Bologna, Italy Castello di Sartirana, ‘Melotti. Opere 1954–1986’, Sartirana Lomellina, Italy La Sanseverina Galleria d’Arte, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Parma, Italy 1979 Galleria San Luca, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Bologna, Italy Il Centro, Galleria d’arte contemporanea, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Napoli, Italy Galleria d’Arte, Il Millennio, ‘Tridente 10. Aspetti dell’arte italiana degli anni ’50 e 1960’, Rome, Italy Pero arte contemporanea, ‘Miracoli di Fausto Melotti’, Milan, Italy Palazzo Reale, ‘Melotti’, Milan, Italy 1985 Galleria Anna d’Ascanio A2, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Rome, Italy Stamperia della Bezuga, ‘Variazioni cromatiche dello scultore Fausto Melotti’, Florence, Italy Galleria Il Nome, ‘Fausto Melotti’. Vigevano, Italy Frankfurter Westend Galerie, ‘Fausto Melotti. Metallplastiken, Bilder’, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Galleria Martano, ‘Fausto Melotti e Lucio Fontana’, Turin, Italy 1978 Gallerie dell’Accademia, ‘Melotti’, Venice, Italy Galleria d’Arte Niccoli, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Parma, Italy Stamperia di Marco Noire, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Turin, Italy Galleria San Luca, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Bologna, Italy Galleria dello Scudo, ‘Fausto Melotti–Sculture 1967–1985’, Verona, Italy Galleria Forum, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Trieste, Italy Galleria d’Arte Martano, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Turin, Italy Galleria Duchamp, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Cagliari, Italy Galleria Morone 6, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Milan, Italy 1984 Galleria Il Punto Sette, Fausto Melotti’, Busto Arsizio, Italy 1977 Studio d’arte contemporanea Dabbeni, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Lugano, Switzerland Castello del Buonconsiglio, ‘Fausto Melotti. Opere 1935–1967’, Trento, Italy Studio Pao, ‘Fausto Melotti. Disegni e tecniche miste’, Milan, Italy Galleria Il Gabbiano, La Spezia, Italy L’Angolo Arte Contemporanea, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Bra, Italy Graphica Club d’Arte Contemporanea, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Milan, Italy Castello Caetani, ‘20 Festival Pontino di Musica 1984 Fausto Melotti’, Sermoneta, Italy Area Studio, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Rovereto, Italy 1976 3/A Galleria d’Arte, ‘Melotti’, Turin, Italy

46 47 Galleria Rotta, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Genoa, Italy 1958 Università di Parma, Sala delle Scuderie della Pilotta, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Parma, Italy Saletta, ‘Melotti’, Milan, Italy Galleria Editalia Qui arte contemporanea, ‘Melotti. Sculture e grafica’, Rome, Italy 1957 1975 Galeria de Arte Contemporaneo, ‘Ceramicas de Melotti’, Caracas, Venezuela Galleria Beniamino, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Sanremo, Italy Galleria dell’Oca,’Fausto Melotti’, Rome, Italy 1956 Centro Rizzoli, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Milan, Italy Galleria L’Annunciata, ‘Le pitture di Melotti’, Milan, Italy Martini Ronchetti Galleria d’arte contemporanea, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Genua, Italy Galleria La Piramide, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Firence, Italy 1950 Galleria La Parisina, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Turin, Italy Studio La Ruota, ‘Umberto Lilloni – Fausto Melotti’, Como, Italy Galerie Schmela, ‘Melotti’, Dusseldorf, Germany Galleria La Colonna, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Como, Italy 1947 Galleria Genoa e L’Isola, ‘Angelo Del Bon – Fausto Melotti’, Genoa, Italy 1974 Galleria San Luca, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Bologna, Italy 1935 Galleria d’Arte Il Sole, ‘Melotti’, Bolzano, Italy Galleria del Milione, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Milan, Italy 3/A Galleria d’Arte Moderna, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Turin, Italy Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, ‘Fausto Melotti. Alfabeto di Lina’, Rome, Italy Galleria dei Bibliofili di Milan, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Milan, Italy Group Exhibitions Atena Galleria d’Arte Moderna, ‘Lucio Fontana. Fausto Melotti’, Meda, Italy Galleria Morone 6, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Milan, Italy 2015 Galleria dell’Ariete, ‘Melotti’, Milan, Italy Palazzo Fortuny, ‘Proportio’, Venice, Italy Ariete Grafica, ‘Melotti’, Milan, Italy Dominique Lévy, ‘Sotto Voce. Arp, Camargo, Castellani, Fontana, Manzoni, Melotti, Nicholson, Schendel, Uecker’, London, England 1973 Galleria Il Segno, ‘Melotti. Sculture tempere incisioni’, Rome, Italy 2014 Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Rome, Italy Waddington Custot Galleries, ‘European and International Group Exhibition’, London, England Marlborough Galerie AG, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Zurich, Switzerland 2013 1972 National Academy Museum, ‘On the Relativity of Distance and some of its Consequences. American and Italian Art. Galleria Salgallery, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Merate, Italy 1963-2013’, New York NY Galleria Galatea, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Turin, Italy Palazzo delle Esposizioni, ‘Gli anni settanta. Arte a Roma’, Rome, Italy Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Turin, Italy Robert Miller Gallery, ‘Suddennes + Certrainty’, New York NY Nasher Sculpture Center, ‘Return to Earth. Ceramic Sculpture of Fontana, Melotti, Miró, Noguchi, and Picasso. 1943- 1971 1963’, Dallas TX Galleria dell’Ariete, ‘Melotti’, Milan, Italy Museum am Ostwall, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Dortmund, Germany 2012 Galleria Galatea, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Turin, Italy Ben Brown Fine Arts Ltd, ‘From de Chirico to Cattelan. A Survey of 20th Century Italian Art’, London, England Galleria d’Arte Martano, ‘Fausto Melotti. Progetti di sculture’, Turin, Italy Palazzo Strozzi, ‘The Thirties. The Arts in Italy Beyond Facism’, Florence, Italy Musei San Domenico, ‘Adolfo Wildt. L’anima e la forma tra Michelangelo e Klimt’, Forlì, Italy 1969 Galleria dell’Ariete, ‘Melotti’, Milan, Italy 2011 Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Arte Povera International’, Rivoli, Italy 1968 2000&Novecento Galleria d’Arte, ‘Collisioni – Un gruppo di artisti tra scultura e architettura’, Parma, Italy Galleria Notizie, ‘Melotti: profezia della scultura’, Turin, Italy Studio La Città, ‘Ad Lucem – Arte Contemporanea per Arvo Pert’, Verona, Italy Palazzo dei Diamanti, Centro Attivita’Visive, ‘Fausto Melotti. Sculture, disegni e pitture 1935 ad oggi’, Ferrara, Italy Palazzo Reale, ‘Gli irripetibili anni ’60. Un dialogo tra Roma e Milano’, Milan, Italy Sala Comunale delle Esposizioni, ‘Fausto Melotti. Sculture, Disegni e Pitture. 1933-1958’, Reggio Emilia, Italy Palazzo Durini, ‘Melotti, Licini e Ferroni. Equilibri di luce’, Milan, Italy Galleria Il Segno, ‘Fausto Melotti. Sculture e disegni. 1962-1967’, Rome, Italy Palazzo Fortuny, ‘TRA – Edge of becoming’, Venice, Italy Fondazione Rome Museo, Palazzo Cipolla, ‘Gi irripetibili anni ’60. Un dialogo tra Rome e Milan’, Rome, Italy 1967 Complesso Monumentale del Vittoriano, ‘Regioni e Testimonianze d’Italia, 1861– 2011. L’Unità dell’Arte Italiana nella Toninelli Arte Moderna, ‘Sculture recenti di Fausto Melotti’, Milan, Italy Diversità delle Regioni’, Rome, Italy Museo Cantonale d’Arte, ‘Collezione Christian Stein. Una storia dell’arte italiana’, Lugano, Switzerland (Travelling 1966 Exhibition) ‘Fausto Melotti’, Basel Switzerland Galleria Christian Stein, ‘Viaggiando’, Milan, Italy Palazzo Valle, ‘Segni come sogni. Licini, Melotti e Novelli fra astrazione e poesia’, Catania, Italy 1965 Werkform-Ausstellung, ‘Keramische Fussböden und Wände von Fausto Melotti’, Munich, Germany 2010 Museo del Novecento, ‘Novecento’, Milan, Italy 1960 Palazzo della Permanente, ‘L’artista, il poeta’, Milan, Italy Galleria Apollinaire, ‘Fausto Melotti’, Milan, Italy IVAM - Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, ‘Collecciò Christian Stein. Una historia del arte italiano’, Valencia, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)

48 49 Waddington Galleries, ‘Sculpture’, London, England 2006 Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori – Ex granai di Villa Mimbelli, ‘Oltre il grande retile. Finestre sull’arte contemporanea a Palazzo Martinengo, ‘Tra astrazioni e iconografie: da Sironi a Licini, da Melotti a Fontana’, Brescia, Italy Livorno’, Livorno, Italy Royal Ontario Museum, ‘Il modo italiano. Italian Design and Avant–garde in the 20th Century’, Toronto, Canada Teatro degli Animosi, ‘Postmoment. XIV Biennale Internationale de Carrara’, Carrara, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Palazzo Saracco, ‘Da Balla a Sutherland’, Acqui Terme, Italy ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, ‘Faster! Bigger! Better!’, Karslruhe, Germany Galleria Repetto, ‘Da Mirò a Paolini. 50 anni di collage’, Acqui Terme, Italy Museo della Scultura, ‘La contemporaneità dell’arte XII Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara’, Carrara, Italy Parrocchia dei Santi Gervasio e Protaso and Biblioteca Comunale, ‘L’Oriente e l’Occidente cantano il Risorto. Musica, Estorick Collection, ‘Italian Abstraction 1910 – 1960’, London, England immagini e parole della spiritualità bizantina ed europea’, San Gervasio Bresciano, Italy Chiesa del Suffragio, ‘Arte Italiana dalla Pop a oggi. Allegra con brio’, Carrara, Italy Galleria Civica di Modena – Palazzo Santa Margherita, ‘Pagine da un bestiario fantastico. Disegno italiano nel XX e Musée des Beaux–Arts de Montréal, ‘Il modo italiano. Italian Design and Avant–garde in the 20th Century’, XXI secolo’, Modena, Italy Montréal, Canada (Travelling Exhibition) Fukui City Art Museum,’Visual Art and Music’, Fukui, Japan Palazzo Cavour, ‘Metropolitanscape. Paesaggi urbani nell’arte contemporanea’, Turin, Italy Rotonda di via Besana, ‘Il grande gioco. Forme d’arte in Italia1947–1989’, Milan, Italy Galleria Martano, ‘Scultura Italiana Contemporanea’, Turin, Italy 2005 Palazzo del Governatore, ‘Nove100’, Parma, Italy Claudia Gian Ferrari, ‘Italiano Arte Contemporanea, Keramicos. Un percorso sulla ceramica da Arturo Martini a Luigi Ontani’, Milan, Italy 2009 IVAM - Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, ‘La mar de arte. Art Galore’, Valencia, Spain Galleria Massucco, ‘Collettiva di Natale 2009’, Acqui Terme, Italy Galleria Civica di Palazzo Loffredo, ‘Visionari primitivi eccentrici. Da Alberto Martini a Licini, Ligabue, Ontani’, Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, ‘Argilla come pane’, Milan, Italy Potenza, Italy Università degli Orefici, ‘Gioielli d’autore. Padova e la Scuola dell’oro’, Rome, Italy Palazzo delle Stelline, ‘In viaggio con Fontana, Gio Ponti, Boetti…Il mondo di Lisa Ponti’, Milan, Italy Triennale di Milan, ‘Milan Gallerie’, Milan, Italy Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, ‘La scultura italiana del XX secolo’, Milan, Italy Estorick Collection of modern Italian Art, ‘The Hockmeyer Collection. 20th Century Italian Ceramic Art’, London, MART - Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea, ‘Un secolo di Arte Italiana. Lo sguardo del collezionista. Opere England dalla Fondazione VAF’, Rovereto, Italy Galleria Tega, ‘Incontri d’Arte’, Pietrasanta, Italy Palazzo Binelli, ‘Il disegno della scultura contemporanea. Da Fontana a Paladino’, Carrara, Italy Musée des Arts Contemporains, ‘Mise à l’échelle’, Grand-Hornu, Belgium Castello Scaligero, ‘Una collezione internazionale di piccole sculture del secondo novecento’, Malcensine, Italy Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, ‘Passaggi in Sicilia’, Palermo, Italy Basilica Palladiana, ‘Da Martini a Mitoraj. La scultura moderna in Italia 1950/2000’, Vicenza, Italy Musée du Temps – Palais Granvelle, ‘Bijoux d’artistes’, Besançon, France Palazzo Fortuny, ‘In–Finitum’, Venice, Italy 2004 Vittoriale Antichità and Design, ‘Terre del Novecento’, Piacenza, Italy Spazio Oberdan, ‘Milano anni Trenta – l’arte e la città’, Milan, Italy La Castiglia, ‘Energie sottili della materia’, Saluzzo, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) La Triennale di Milano, ‘Il design della gioia. Il gioiello fra progetto e ornamento’, Milan, Italy Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino – Palazzo Valle, ‘Costanti del classico nell’arte del XX e XXI secolo’, Catania, Italy Museo Cantonale d’Arte, ‘Les enfants terribles. Il linguaggio dell’infanzia nell’arte 1909–2004’, Lugano, Switzerland Galleria Martano, ‘Play and Pause’, Turin, Italy Museo Vittoria Colonna, ‘Forme e suoni dallo spazio–tempo estremo: Melotti, Fontana, Pierelli, Pistoletto, Eliasson, Kunsthaus Zürich, ‘Hot Spots: Rio de Janeiro-Milan-Turin-Los Angeles’, Zurich, Switzerland Patella, Palmieri, Piscitelli’, Pescara, Italy Palazzo Te, ‘Bambini nel tempo’, Mantova, Italy 2008 Museo del Corso, ‘Ori d’artista. Il gioiello nell’Arte Italiana. 1900–2004’, Rome, Italy Museo Attilio and Cleofe Gaffoglio, ‘La scultura italiana nel gioiello d’artista della seconda metà del Novecento’, Studio La Città, ‘Calzolari – Melotti – Pistoletto’, Verona, Italy Rapallo, Italy Galleria Martini & Ronchetti, ‘Su carta’, Genoa, Italy 2003 Museum of Art Seoul National University, ‘Energie sottili della materia’, Seoul, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) MART - Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea, Scultura lingua morta Scultura nell’Italia fascista’, Rovereto, Italy Ex Convento del Carmine, ‘Mediterraneo. Mitologie della figura nell’arte italiana tra le due guerre’, Marsala, Italy Henry Moore Institute, ‘Scultura lingua morta’, Leeds, England MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, ‘La raccolta Talamoni – centro dell’informale IVAM - Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, ‘La Collecciòn Gori – The Gori Collection’, Valencia, Spain europeo’, Rovereto, Italy He Xiangning Art Museum, ‘Energie sottili della materia’, Shenzhen, China (Travelling Exhibition) 2002 Galleria Carlo Orsi, ‘Canova e Lisippo – Amorino alato e l’Eros senza volto’, Milan, Italy Museo Archeologico Regionale, ‘L’arte del gioco. Da Klee a Boetti’, Aosta, Italy Moderna Museet, ‘Time & Place: Milan – Turin 1958 – 1968’, Stockholm, Sweden Museo del Corso, ‘Kéramos ceramica nell’arte italiana 1910 – 2002’, Rome, Italy Palazzo Bossi Bocchi, ‘Allo! Paris! – Il libro d’artista da Manet a Picasso nella collezione Mingardi’, Parma, Italy MART - Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea, ‘Le Stanze dell’Arte’, Rovereto, Italy China National Academy of Painting, ‘Energie sottili della materia’, Beijing, China (Travelling Exhibition) Museo del Corso, ‘La famiglia nell’arte – Storia e immagini nell’Italia del XX secolo’, Rome, Italy Urban Planning Exhibition Center, ‘Energie sottili della materia’, Shanghai, China (Travelling Exhibition) Galleria Roberta Lietti Arte Contemporanea, ‘Ico Parisi e gli amici storici’, Como, Italy Fonte D’Abisso Arte, ‘Eventualità’, Milan, Italy 2007 Palazzo Spinola Gambaro, ‘Vaghe stelle dell’Orsa …gli infiniti di Giacomo Leopardi’, Genoa, Italy Galleria Repetto, ‘XXS extrasmall’, Acqui Terme, Italy Marlborough Monaco, ‘Art Italien. Moderne et Contemporain’, Monaco, Monaco Fonte d’Abisso Arte, ‘Arte Come Architettura – una lettura futurista’, Milan, Italy Musée des Arts Contemporains de la Communauté Française de Belgique, Mac’s Grand–Hornu, ‘L’Herbier & le Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, ‘Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro – La Collezione permanente’, Milan, Italy Nuage’, Hornu, Belgium Tel Aviv Museum of Art, ‘Mental Grafie’, Tel Aviv, Israel Spazio Espositivo ex Kaimano, ‘La scultura lingua viva’, Acqui Terme, Italy Villa d’Este, ‘’50 – ’60. La scultura in Italia’, Tivoli, Italy Groninger Museum, ‘Biciclette’, Groningen, The Netherlands Palazzo Reale, ‘Camera con vista. Arte e interni in Italia. 1900 – 2000’, Milan, Italy Carlina Galleria d’arte, ‘Sculture e gioielli d’artista’, Turin, Italy Palazzo della Ragione – Galleria d’Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti, ‘Il settimo splendore – La modernità della malinconia’, Spazio Oberdan, ‘La seduzione della materia. Scultori italiani da Medardo Rosso alle generazioni recenti’, Milan, Italy Verona, Italy Shimane Art Museum, ‘La Scultura Italiana del XX secolo’, Shimane, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) Galerìa Elvira Gonzàles, ‘Arte italiano’, Madrid, Spain Palazzo Reale, ‘Kandinsky e l’astrattismo in Italia. 1930–1950’, Milan, Italy 2001 Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, ‘Il modo italiano. Italian design and Avant–garde in the 20th Basilica Palladiana, ‘La Scultura Moderna in Italia Prima parte. 1900 – 1965’, Vicenza, Italy Century’, Rovereto, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Studio Amedeo Porro, ‘Scultura moderna italiana’, Vicenza, Italy Vivian Horan Fine Art, ‘Italian Visions: 40 years of art’, New York NY

50 51 Studio 53 Arte, ‘Melotti, Depero, Baldessari’, Rovereto, Italy Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art Aichi Arts Center, ‘Arte Italiana. 1945–1995. Il visibile e l’invisibile’, Nagoya, Japan Galleria Anna D’Ascanio, ‘Natale 2001’, Rome, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Sant’Agostino, ‘Chagall – Licini e il sopra–naturale’, Ascoli Piceno, Italy Museion – Museo d’Arte Moderna, ‘Abstracta. Austria, Germania, Italia 1919 – 1939. L’arte degenerata. Die andere Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘La Scultura Italiana del XX secolo’, Sapporo, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) “entartete Kunst”’, Bolzano, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) The Museum of Modern Art, ‘La Scultura Italiana del xx secolo’, Ibaraki, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) Palazzo dei Diamanti, ‘Milan 1950–59. Il rinnovamento della pittura in Italia’, Ferarra, Italy Kagoshima City museum of art, ‘La Scultura Italiana del XX secolo’, Kagoshima, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) Castello Visconteo, ‘Scultura & Colore’, Pavia, Italy Villa Menafoglio Litta Panza, ‘L’arte della bicicletta’, Varese, Italy Palazzo Querini Dubois, ‘Minimalia Da Giacomo Balla a…’, Venice, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Mole Antonelliana, ‘Immaginazione aurea’, Ancona, Italy Palazzo Verbania, ‘Materia ispirata’, Luino, Italy Yokohama museum of Art, ‘La Scultura italiana del XX secolo’, Yokohama, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) Netta Vespignani Galleria d’arte, ‘La ceramica degli artisti (1910–1997)’, Rome, Italy Palazzo Pitti – Museo degli argenti, ‘L’arte del gioiello – Il gioiello d’artista ‘900 ad oggi’, Florence, Italy Triennale, ‘Luigi Figini, Gino Pollini. Architettura 1927–1991’, Milan, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Kunstforum in der Grundkredit Bank, ‘L’avventura della materia – Der Italienische Weg vom Futurismus zum Laser’, Mantero Seta, ’97 Miniartexil Como’, Como, Italy Berlin, Germany (Travelling Exhibition) Mazzoleni Sambonet arte, ‘antico moderno’, Milan, Italy Studio Casoli, ‘Tocco ferro’, Rome, Italy 2000 Palazzo Sertoli, Galleria del Credito Valtellinese, ‘Arte a Milan. 1946 – 1959. Reale, Concreto, Astratto Postcubismo Scuderie Papali – Quirinale, Mercati di Traiano, ‘Novecento. Arte e Storia in Italia’, Rome, Italy all’ultimo Naturalismo’, Sondrio, Italy Palau de la Virreina, ‘Futurismo – laser – L’avventura italiana de la materia’, Barcelona, Spain (Travelling Exhibition) Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, ‘Années 30 en Europe. Le temps menaçant 1929–1939’, Paris, France Galleria Clio Calvi Rudy Volpi, ‘Il libro come opera d’arte’, Milan, Italy Arte Centro, ‘Licini, Melotti, Lazzari’, Milan, Italy Palais des Beaux Arts, ‘Voici, 100 ans d’art contemporain’, Brussels, Belgium Palazzo delle Albere, ‘Luigi Figini, Gino Pollini. Architettura 1927–1991’, Trento, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna, ‘Il 1950 – Premi ed Esposizioni nell’Italia del dopoguerra’, Gallarate, Italy Complesso conventuale di San Francesco, ‘Lo sguardo indiscreto – Arte del XX secolo dalle collezioni alessandrine’, 1996 Alessandria, Italy Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘Face à l’Histoire 1933–1996. L’artiste moderne devant l’événement historique’, Paris, Museo del Corso, ‘Il ‘900 scolpito. Da Rodin a Picasso’, Rome, Italy France Accademia, Palazzo Caselli, Parco della Pedula, ‘Il primato della scultura – Il Novecento a Carrara e dintorni’, Galleria Giulia arte contemporanea, ‘Carte di scultori italiani’, Rome, Italy Carrara, Italy Castello di Sartirana, Sartirana Lomellina, Italy Galleria Museo dell’Arte della Stampa, Palazzo Libera, ‘Inciso tra memoria e presente’, Villa Lagarina, Italy Museo Archeologico di Aosta, ‘La Valle della Scultura. Da Rodin a Calder, i maestri del nostro secolo’, Aosta, Italy Istituto d’Arte F.A. Grue, ‘Il fascino della ceramica’, Castelli, Italy Deutsches Historisches Museum, ‘Art and Power: Europe under the dictators. 1930–1945’, Berlin, Germany (traveling Castello di Vigevano, ‘Scultura italiana del dopoguerra. Un percorso’, Vigevano, Italy exhibtion) Chiese rupestri Madonna delle Virtù e San Nicola dei Greci, ‘Vanni Scheiwiller e la scultura’, Matera, Italy Museo di Arte Turca ed Islamica, ‘Mostra di gioielli italiani d’artista’, Istanbul, Turkey Santuario di Oropa, ‘La Spiritualità nell’arte. Da Boccioni a Serrano’, Biella, Italy Mazzoleni Sambonet Arte, ‘Antico Moderno’, Milan, Italy Galleria Seno, ‘Visioni dall’informale’, Milan, Italy Galleria Civica, ‘Le Metamorfosi del Corpo’, Modena, Italy Palazzo Martinengo, ‘Adolfo Wildt e i suoi allievi’, Brescia, Italy Palazzo delle Albere, ‘Capolavori della Raccolta d’Arte Contemporanea del Mart’, Trento, Italy Ateliers de la Monnaie, ‘L’Opéra, un chant d’étoiles’, Brussels, Belgium Centre de Cultura Contemporània, ‘Art and Power: Europe under the dictators. 1930–1945’, Barcelona, Spain (Travelling Exhibition) 1999 Museo Civico, ‘Exempla’, Teramo, Italy 1995 Galleria Blu, ‘La scultura, lingua morta?’, Milan, Italy Galleria Fioretto, ‘Scultura’, Padua, Italy Fondazione Biblioteca Morcelli – Pinacoteca Repossi, ‘Un segno lungo un secolo’, Chiari, Italy Hayward Gallery, ‘Art and Power: Europe under the dictators 1930–1945’, London, England (Travelling Exhibition) Fonte d’Abisso Arte, ‘Scultura in Europa negli anni ’50’, Milan, Italy Provinciaal Diamantmuseum, ‘Gioielli d’artista’, Antwerp, Belgium P.S.1, ‘Minimalia: An Italian Vision in 20th Century Art’, New York NY (travel exhibition) Accademia di Brera, Sala Napoleonica and Biblioteca Museo della Permanente, ‘La città di Brera. Due secoli di Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, ‘Opere in forma di libro’, Prato, Italy scultura’, Milan, Italy Museo Civico G. Fattori, ‘Il grande rettile e gli altri’, Livorno, Italy Palazzo Ducale, ‘Venezia e la Biennale: percorsi del gusto’, Venice, Italy Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea PAC, ‘Lucio Fontana. Idee e capolavori’, Milan, Italy Museo Correr, ‘Identità e Alterità. XLVI Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte’, Venice, Italy Festival Garonne, ‘Festival Garonne’, Tolosa, Spain San Pietro in Atrio, ‘I taglieri del ‘900 ContemporaneaComo 1’, Como, Italy Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, ‘La Collezione’, Rivoli, Italy Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, ‘Italienische Metamorphose. 1943–1968’, Wolfsburg, Germany (Travelling Exhibition) Civica Raccolta del Disegno, ‘Collezione Pozzi d’Arte Contemporanea. Opere su carta’, Salò, Italy 1998 Torre Colombera di Gorla Mayre, ‘Fra Terra e Cielo Fontana, Melotti, Leoncillo’, Gorla Maggiore, Italy Palazzo Ducale, ‘Scultura Lingua Viva; presenze internazionali a Carrara e Pietrasanta nel secondo dopoguerra’, Massa, Italy 1994 Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Arte Italiana. 1945–1995. Il visibile e l’invisibile’, Hiroshima, Japan Guggenheim Museum, ‘The Italian Metamorphosis. 1943–1968’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition) (Travelling Exhibition) Frankfurter Westend Galerie, ‘Italienische Kunst der Moderne in Frankfurter Privatbesitz’, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Padiglione di Arte Contemporanea, ‘Edoardo Persico e gli artisti. 1929–1936’, Milan, Italy Sala dell’Abbondanza, Loggetta di San Francesco, Piazza Ginevri, ‘Le Stagioni della Scultura’, Pergola, Italy Galleria Milano, ‘Milano Anni Sessanta Incontri di Idee’, Milan, Italy Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, ‘Di carta e d’altro. Libri d’artista’, Prato, Italy Palazzo delle Esposizioni, ‘Carlo Belli e Rome’, Rome, Italy Künstlerhaus, ‘Kunst und Diktatur’, Vienna, Austria Yonago City Museum of Art, ‘Arte Italiana. 1945–1995. Il visibile e l’invisibile’, Tottori, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) Museo della Permanente, ‘Disegno e scultura nell’arte italiana del XX secolo’, Milan, Italy Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Arte Italiana. 1945–1995. Il visibile e l’invisibile’, Tokyo, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) Palazzo delle Esposizioni, ‘Minimalia. Da Giacomo Balla a…’, Rome, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) 1993 Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Palazzo delle Albere, ‘Abstracta. Austria, Germania, Palazzina dei Giardini, ‘Il disegno nelle raccolte private modenesi’, Modena, Italy Italia 1919 – 1939. L’arte degenerata. Die andere “entartete Kunst”’, Trento, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Villa Domenica, Terre d’artista a Villa Domenica’, Villorba, Italy Galleria Traghetto, ‘Segno, spazialità, colore, material. Gli anni ’50 e ’60 di Afro, Corpora, Fontana, Melotti, Nigro, 1997 Novelli, Perilli, Reggiani, Scialoja, Vedova’, Venice, Italy Tiroler Landesmuseum, Ferdinandeum, ‘Abstracta. Austria, Germania, Italia 1919 – 1939. L’arte degenerata. Die Galleria del Leone, ‘Le carte parlanti’, Venice, Italy andere “entartete Kunst”’, Innsbruck, Austria (Travelling Exhibition) Fondazione Magnani Rocca, ‘La collezione Barilla di Arte Moderna’, Corte di Mamiano, Italy Fortezza del Priamàr, ‘Scultura italiana del primo Novecento’, Savona, Italy

52 53 Castello di Rivoli Museo di Arte Contemporanea, ‘Un’avventura Internazionale. Torino e le arti 1950–1970’, Rivoli, Italy Galleria Martano, ‘Licini, Melotti, Tancredi. Opere su carta’, Turin, Italy Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Midi– Pyrénées, ‘La Collection Mme Christian Stein’, Toulouse, France Museum Fridericianum, ‘Italiens Moderne. Futurismus und Rationalismus’, Kassel, Germany Museum of Modern Art, ‘The artist and the book in twentieth–century Italy’, New York NY Palazzo delle Albere, ‘Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto’, Trento, Italy

1992 1989 Studio La Ruota, ‘Bestiario Fantastico’, Como, Italy Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, ‘Il Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea di Milan. PAC 1979 – 1989’, Milan, Italy Galleria Pieter Coray, ‘Accrochage’, Lugano, Switzerland Galleria Ippolito Simonis, ‘Accardi, Castellani, Fontana, Melotti, Nigro, Paolini, Scarpitta, Uncini, Zorio’, Turin, Italy Galleria dell’Oca, ‘22 opere dal 1960 al 1992’, Rome, Italy Museum of Modern Art, ‘Mostra di scultori italiani dopoguerra ad oggi’, Seoul, Japan Shigaraki, Toki, Kiushu Ceramic Museum, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Tokyo, Tokyo Center for Industry and Calcografia Nazionale, ‘La linea astratta dell’incisione italiana Stamperia Romero. 1960–1986’, Rome, Italy Culture, ‘1950-1990 Ceramiche Italiane Contemporanee’, Tokyo, Japan Galleria d’Arte Moderna Giorgio Morandi, ‘Scultura e ceramica in Italia nel Novecento’, Bologna, Italy Institut d’Art Contemporain, ‘La collection Christian Stein. Un regard sur l’art italien’, Villeurbanne, France Palazzo delle Esposizioni, ‘Omaggio a Picasso. Dall’artista – museo’, Faenza, Italy Holderlinsaal der Schwabenlandhalle, ‘5. Triennale Kleinplastik’, Fellbach, Germany Villa Fiocco and Loggia di Fra Giocondo, Palazzo Miniscalchi–Erizzo, ‘Idiomi della scultura contemporanea 2’, Castello di Belgioioso, ‘Ornamenta’, Belgioioso, Italy Sommacampagna, Verona, Ca’Zenobia, Italy The Murray and Isabella Rayburn Foundation, ‘A Short History of Modern Italian Sculpture’, New York NY Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, ‘Arte contemporanea per un museo. 10 anni di acquisizioni delle Civiche Castello Estense, ‘Scultura italiana del primo novecento’, Mesola, Italy Raccolte d’Arte di Milan’, Milan, Italy Palazzo Volpi, ‘L’Europa dei razionalisti. Pittura scultura architettura negli anni trenta’, Como, Italy 1991 Palazzo Grassi, ‘Arte Italiana Presenze. 1900 – 1945’, Venice, Italy Palazzo Gotico, ‘Il colore del lavoro Il lavoro come oggetto e come soggetto nella pittura italiana fra Ottocento e Museo Pablo Gargallo, ‘Dibujos de escultores’, Zaragoza, Spain Novecento’, Piacenza, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’arte contemporanea, ‘Piano Nobile’, Rivoli, Italy Galleria Editalia Qui arte contemporanea, ‘Qui Arte Contemporanea. Venticinque anni’, Rome, Italy Palazzo Rondanini alla Rotonda, ‘Milano Anni Trenta – Il primo astrattismo italiano’, Rome, Italy Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, ‘Nuove acquisizioni’, Rivoli, Italy Galleria Forni, ‘Aspetti della scultura contemporanea. 1900 – 1989’, Bologna, Italy Archivio del ‘900, ‘Il mondo di Carlo Belli. Italia anni Trenta: la cultura artistica’, Rovereto, Switzerland Galleria Ippolito Simonis, ‘Arp, Fontana, Melotti’, Turin, Italy Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, ‘Collezione privata. Bergamo Arte italiana del XX secolo’, Bergamo, Italy Panicali Fine Art, ‘Italian Master Sculptors of the XX Century’, New York NY Palazzo Reale, Sala delle Cariatidi, ‘Il colore del lavoro. Il lavoro come oggetto e come soggetto nella pittura italiana Royal Academy of Arts, ‘Italian Art in the 20th Century’, London, England fra Ottocento e Novecento’, Milan, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Galerije Grada Zagreba, ‘Italia Anni Trenta’, Zagreb, Croatia Galleria d’Arte Il Millennio, ‘Fuochi Terracotte e ceramiche di Arturo Martini, Fontana, Melotti, Leoncillo, Nanni Valentini, Spagnulo, Castagno’, Rome, Italy 1988 Mole Antonelliana, ‘Il colore del lavoro Il lavoro come oggetto e come soggetto nella pittura italiana fra Ottocento e Palazzo delle Albere, Museo Provinciale d’Arte, ‘Situazioni – Arte nel Trentino ’45’, Trento, Italy Novecento’, Turin, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Galleria Pieter Coray, ‘Il segno degli scultori’, Lugano, Switzerland Galleria La Scaletta, ‘Itinerari’, S. Polo di Reggio, Italy Fortezza da Basso, ‘Le collezioni difficili’, Florence, Italy Palazzo delle Esposizioni, ‘La ceramica del ‘900’, Faenza, Italy Galleria Giulia, ‘Collezione privata’, Rome, Italy Accademia degli Euteleti, ‘Un’idea di leggerezza’, San Miniato – Tedesco, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Centro Studi Osvaldo Licini, ‘Il Milione e l’Astrattismo. 1932–1938. La galleria, Licini, i suoi amici’, Monte Vidon Archivio del ‘900 Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, ‘Artisti del ‘900. Protagonisti di Corrado, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Rovereto’, Rovereto, Italy Palazzo dei Priori, ‘Il Milione e l’Astrattismo. 1932–1938. La galleria, Licini, i suoi amici’, Fermo, Italy (Travelling Museo d’Arte Moderna, ‘Beauty is difficult. Homage to Ezra Pound’, Bolzano, Italy Exhibition) Spazia studio d’arte, ‘L’ironia della scena’, Bologna, Italy Centro di Cultura Ausoni, ‘Galleristi a Palazzo’, Rome, Italy Galleria d’Arte Niccoli, ‘Un’idea di leggerezza’, Parma, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Galerie Di Meo, ‘Accardi, Castellani, Fontana, Manzoni, Melotti, Nigro, Paolini, Twombly’, Paris, France Galleria Ruggerini & Zonca, ‘Astrazione Informale Segno’, Milan, Italy Palazzina dei Giardini Pubblici, ‘Disegno contemporaneo. Acquisizioni per la Raccolta Civica’, Modena, Italy Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, ‘Letteratura artistica. Documenti del Novecento in Italia’, Rivoli, Italy Castel dell’Ovo, Biennale Internazionale del Mare, ‘Mare & Mare. Il mare nelle arti visuali’, Napoli, Italy Palazzo Sternberg, ‘Arte italiana 1895–1952 dai Musei Triveneti’, Prague, Czech Republic Eva Menzio, ‘Liaisons’, Turin, Italy Galleria Arte e Altro, ‘Fuochi. Terrecotte e ceramiche di Arturo Martini, Fontana, Melotti, Leoncillo, Nanni Valentini, Fondazione Centro Artisti per la Solidarietà Umana, ‘Opere in esclusiva di insigni Maestri dell’Arte Pittorica’, Rome, Spagnulo, Castagno’, Milan, Italy Italy Galleria Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, ‘Mischiare le carte -immagine speculare’, Milan, Italy Saletta Comunale d’Esposizione, Castel San Pietro, Switzerland Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Genova, Villa Croce, ‘Museo d’arte Contemporanea di Genova. Collezione Centre d’Art Contemporain, ‘Sculptures de chambre’, Geneve, Switzerland Cernuschi Ghiringhelli’, Genoa, Italy Galleria Mazzoleni Arte, ‘Scultura e dintorni’, Milan, Italy Kodama Gallery, ‘Un’idea di leggerezza’, Osaka, Japan Galleria Martini and Ronchetti, ‘Disegno’, Genoa, Italy

1990 1987 Centro Tornabuoni, ‘Maestri contemporanei, antologia scelta 1990/1991’, Florence, Italy Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’arte contemporanea, ‘Standing Sculpture’, Rivoli, Italy Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, ‘Memoria del futuro. Arte Italiano desde las primeras vanguardias a la posguerra’, Galleria Bottega d’Arte, ‘Disegni’, Acqui Terme, Italy Madrid, Spain Fondazione Antonio Ratti, ‘Arte Svelata. Collezionismo privato a Como dall’Ottocento a oggi’, Como, Italy Galleria Delle Arti, ‘Scultura italiana del XX secolo’, Citta’ di Castello, Italy Galleria Civica, ‘Disegno italiano del dopoguerra’, Modena, Italy Museo Marini, ‘Scultura a Milano. 1945–1990’, Florence, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Galleria Giulia, ‘Collezione privata’, Rome, Italy Villa Malpensata, ‘Disegno Italiano del Novecento’, Lugano, Switzerland Galleria Studio G7, ‘Voluti inganni. Disegno degli scultori italiani. 1945 – 1987’, Bologna, Italy IVAM Centre Julio Gonzàlez, ‘Paris. Arte Abstracto Arte Concreto. Cercle et Carré’, Valencia, Spain Frankfurter Kunstverein, ‘Italienische Zeichnungen’, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Palazzo Kinsky, ‘Civiltà delle macchine e la linea astratta dell’incisione italiana’, Prague, Czech Republic Galleria La Scaletta c/o Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea, ‘Astrattismi Italiano e Disegni Italiani del ‘900’, Milan, Centro d’Arte e Cultura, ‘La Madonna nell’arte italiana del Novecento’, Benevento, Italy Italy Palazzo della Permanente, ‘Scultura a Milano. 1945 – 1990’, Milan, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Galleria Gian Ferrari, ‘Voglia di scultura’, Milan, Italy Galleria Eva Menzio, ‘Tramontata è la luna…’, Turin, Italy EUR Archivio Centrale dello Stato, ‘E 42. L’Esposizione Universale di Rome: utopia e scenario del regime’, Rome, Italy Chiesa Monumentale di San Giuliano, ‘La Madonna nell’arte italiana del Novecento’, Castrovillari, Italy Loggetta Lombardesca, ‘Disegnata. Percorsi del disegno italiano 1945 ad oggi’, Ravenna, Italy IVAM Centre Julio Gonzàlez, ‘Vanguardia Italiana de Entreguerras. Futurismo bulletin Racionalismo’, Valencia, Palazzo Venice, Appartamento Barbo, ‘Italics 1925 – 1985. Sessant’anni di vita culturale in Italia’, Rome, Italy Spain (Travelling Exhibition) Chiesa dei Cavalieri di Malta, ‘Omaggio a Paolo Orsi’, Siracusa, Italy Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint–Étienne, ‘L’Art en Europe. Les années décisives. 1945 –1953’, Saint–Étienne, France

54 55 1986 sechziger und siebziger Jahre’, Krefeld, Germany Centro Tornabuoni, ‘Maestri della pittura moderna. Opere scelte 1986’, Florence, Italy Frankfurter Kunstverein, ‘Kunst nach 45. Aus Frankfurter Privatbesitz’, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Palazzo ex Dante Alighieri, ‘XXIV Biennale d’Arti Visive. Astrazione italiana contemporanea’, Alatri, Italy Palazzo della Permanente, ‘Il segno della pittura e della scultura’, Milan, Italy Columbia University, Casa Italiana, Center for Italian Studies, ‘Italics 1925 – 1985. Sessant’anni di vita culturale in ‘3.Biennale der Europaischen Grafik’, Baden-Baden, Germany Italia’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition) Galleria Civica, ‘Disegno italiano fra le due guerre’, Modena, Italy Galleria Martano, ‘Terra come materia’, Turin, Italy Palazzo Lanfranchi, ‘Critica ad arte’, Pisa, Switzerland Galleria Editalia Qui arte contemporanea, ‘Qui arte contemporanea. Venti anni’, Rome, Italy Galleria La Scaletta, ‘Il disegno italiano 3/83–84’, Reggio Emilia, Italy Vismara Arte, ‘Vismara arte 21 anni 1965–1986’, Milan, Italy Biblioteca Comunale and Museo di Milano, ‘Scheiwiller a Milan 1925 – 1983. Immagini e documenti’, Milan, Italy Pinacoteca Civica, ‘Premio Campigna. XXX Edizione. Tempo e identità. Presenze, precezioni, partecipazion’, Forlì, Galleria De’ Foscherari, ‘L’idea dell’oro. Da Fontana a Melotti’, Bologna, Italy Italy Forte di Belvedere, ‘Florence per l’Arte Contemporanea’, Florence, Italy 1982 Palazzo Giorgi and other venues, ‘Premio Campigna. XXX Edizione. Tempo e identità 2 – Presenze, percezioni, Galleria Eva Menzio, Turin, Italy partecipazioni’, Santa Sofia di Romegna, Italy Museum Moderner Kunst, ‘La sovrana inattualità. Ricerche plastiche in Italia negli anni Settanta’, Vienna, Austria Locali Torrigiani, ‘Prima Biennale Internazionale di GraficaTono Zancanaro’, Vico d’Elsa, Italy Villa Manzoni – Galleria Comunale d’Arte, ‘30 anni d’arte italiana. 1950–1980. Oggetti espressivi e concetti Museo Civico, ‘Il tempo degli astratti. Immagini di arte italiana negli anni Trenta’, Riva del Garda, Italy percepibili’, Lecco, Italy Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, ‘Qu’est–ce que la sculpture moderne?’, Paris, France Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, ‘Fragile Skulpturen’, Marl, Germany Castello Svevo, ‘Sculture da camera’, Bari, Italy Galleria Spatia, ‘L’astrattismo in Italia. 1930–1940’, Bolzano, Italy Giardini della Biennale, ‘XLII Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte. La Biennale di Venezia. Arte e Scienza’, Venice, Italy Galleria Arco d’Alibert, ‘13 pezzi d’oro’, Rome, Italy Loggetta Lombardesca, ‘Arte Santa’, Ravenna, Italy Galleria Pieroni, ‘Fausto Melotti, Enrico Castellani, Luciano Fabro’, Rome, Italy Palazzo Magnani, ‘Arcana Scheiwiller. Gli archivi di un editore’, Reggio Emilia, Italy Palazzo Venezia, Sala Barbo, ‘Creatività e tecnica nell’incisione. Tradizione e ricerca a Rome. 1960–1982’, Rome, Italy Galleria d’Arte Narciso, ‘Il segno ostentato. Disegni del Novecento Italiano’, Turin, Italy Palazzo Lanfranchi, ‘Forma senza forma’, Pisa, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Galleria Sprovieri, ‘Arte Astratta Italiana. Futurismo agli anni Trenta’, Rome, Italy Galleria Civica, ‘Forma senza forma’, Modena, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Frankfurter Westend Galerie, ‘Zur italienischen Kunst nach 1945. Deutsche Künstler und Italien. II. Band’, Frankfurt/ Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, ‘La sovrana inattualità Ricerche plastiche in Italia negli anni settanta’, Milan, Main, Germany Italy Palazzo Reale, ‘Galleria del Sagrato, ex Arengario, gli Anni Trenta Arte e Cultura in Italia’, Milan, Italy 1985 Galleria Lopes AG, ‘Aquarelle’, Zurich, Switzerland Chiesa di San Domenico, ‘L’oro della ricerca plastica’, Fano, Italy Museo progressivo d’arte contemporanea, ‘Il Castelletto di Villa Maria, segno/tra coerenza e trasgressione’, Livorno, Meeting Consagra Gibellina, ‘Per una storia del libro d’arte’, Gibellina, Italy Italy Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, ‘Vom Klang der Bilder. Die Musik in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts’, Stuttgart, Germany Palazzo delle Esposizioni, ‘43° Concorso Internazionale della Ceramica d’Arte Maestri della Ceramica’, Faenza, Italy 1981 Galleria Arte Centro, Studio 2 Arte Centro, Galleria Vismara, ‘Sogno, armonia e segni. Ipotesi per una collezione’, Centro Annunciata-Galleria Annunciata, ‘40 anni di mostre in due manifestazioni. Seconda parte’, Milan, Milan, Italy Switzerland Galleria Spazia, ‘Sentieri della scultura’, Bologna, Italy Galleria Martano, ‘Astrattismo italiano tra le due guerre’, Turin, Italy Sotterranei dello Spedale degli Innocenti, ‘Fortuna degli Etruschi’, Florence, Italy Galerie Lopes AG, ‘Contemporary and XX Century Masters’, Zurich, Switzerland Palazzo Vescovile and Palazzo dell’Ente Provinciale Turismo, ‘3 Biennale Nazionale d’Arte Contemporanea. Ex Chiesa di Sant’Agostino, ‘Deserto. Aspetti della condizione umana attraverso l’arte’, Bergamo, Italy Generazione primo decennio’, Rieti, Italy Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, ‘Materiali. Arte italiana. 1920 – 1940. Nelle collezioni della Galleria Civica d’Arte Centro de Arte Moderna, Fondazione Calouste Gulbekian, ‘Primeira Exposicao. Dialgo sobra a Arte Contemporanea Moderna di Turin’, Turin, Italy en Europa’, Lisboa, Portugal Toninelli Arte Moderna, ‘Sculture di Marino Marini, Medardo Rosso, e di Giacomo Manzù, Floriano Bodini, Pericle Frankfurter Kunstverein, ‘Italienische Kunst 1900 – 1980’, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Fazzini, Lucio Fontana, Fausto Melotti, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Giuliano Vang’, Rome, Italy Ente Fiera, ‘Expo ’85’, Tsukuba, Japan Museo di Castelvecchio, Sala Boggian, ‘Strutture virtuali’, Verona, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Loggetta Lombardesca, ‘Il fantasma della qualità’, Ravenna, Italy Biblioteca Civica di Saronno, Sala della Pretura, ‘Strutture virtuali’, Saronno, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Castello di Baia, ‘Sapere–Sapore. Arte in Italia 1958 – 1985’, Bacoli, Italy Frankfurter Westend Galerie, ‘Zur italienischen Kunst nach 1945. Deutsche Künstler und Italien’, Frankfurt/Main, Villa Croce, Centro per le Arti Visive and Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, ‘1930–1980. Astrattismo in Italia nella raccolta Germany Cernuschi – Ghiringhelli’, Genoa, Italy Gabinetto Disegni and Stampe degli Uffizi, ‘Dieci Anni di Acquisizioni. 1974 – 1984’, Florence, Italy 1980 Galerie Lopes AG, ‘Grafik’, Zurich, Switzerland 1984 Palazzo della Permanente, ‘IV Triennale dell’incisione’, Milan, Italy Museum Wolfsburg, ‘Creatività e tecnica dell’incisione’, Wolfsburg, Germany Galleria Morone 6, ‘Emblema Freiles Madella Melotti e altri’, Milan, Italy Rotonda della Besana, ‘Artisti e scrittori’, Milan, Italy Galleria Incontro d’Arte, ‘Itinerario all’interno della scultura italiana contemporanea’, Rome, Italy Castello di Sartirana, ‘Disegnare l’oro. Immagini per un gioiello’, Sartirana Lomellina, Italy Museo di arte moderna, ‘Grafica italiana astratta’, Haifa, Israel Rocca Paolina, Palazzo dei Priori, Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo, ‘Attraversamenti. Linee della nuova arte Palazzo Novellucci, ‘Anni creativi – Milione 1932-1939’, Prato, Italy contemporanea italiana’, Perugia, Italy Officine San Giorgio, ‘Artisti e Cultura Visiva del Novecento’, Pistoia, Italy Ca’ Zenobia, Villa Fiocco, ‘Idiomi della scultura contemporanea’, Sommacampagna, Italy Galleria Stendhal, ‘Cascella Consagra Melotti’, Milan, Italy Galleria d’Arte Il Millennio, ‘La chiave della scultura italiana’, Rome, Italy Associazione Culturale,’ L’Uomo e l’Arte’, Biella, Italy Palazzo dell’Istruzione, ‘Fausto Melotti, Luigi Figini, Gino Pollini, Renata Melotti’. Rovereto, Italy Palazzo della Permanente, ‘XXIX Biennale Nazionale d’Arte Città di Milano’, Milan, Italy 1979 Vivai del Sud, ‘Scultura Spazi e Percorsi’, Rome, Italy 1983 The National Museum of Art, ‘Italy and Japan. Art in last ten decades’, Osaka, Japan Galleria Il Mercante di Stampe, ‘Catalogue 1983. Incisioni – Litografie e Disegni Originali Ottocento – Novecento’, Artisti Italiani, ‘XV Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di San Paolo del Brasile’, Sao Paulo, Brazil Milan, Italy Arte Fiera, ‘Sistina Società per arte’, Bologna, Italy Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, ‘Sammlung Helga und Walter Lauffs – Amerikanische und europaeische Kunst der Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, ‘Letteratura–Arte. Miti del ‘900’, Milan, Italy

56 57 1978 1971 Galleria Milan, ‘Ceramiche italiane. 1900–1950’, Milan, Italy Galleria Milano, ‘Il mondo della Non–Oggettività’, Milan, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Palazzo Strozzi, ‘VI Biennale Internazionale della Grafica d’Arte’, Florence, Italy Haus Deutscher Ring, ‘Arte Concreta Der italienische Konstruktivismus’, Hamburg, Germany (Travelling Exhibition) Deutschen Museum, Glashalle, ‘Europäisches Patentamt München. Bildhauerwettbewerb’, Munich, Germany Westfälischer Kunstverein, ‘Arte concreta Der italienische Konstruktivismus’, Münster, Germany (Travelling Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, ‘Abstraction Création. 1931–1936’, Paris, France (Travelling Exhibition) Exhibition) Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, ‘Abstraction Création. 1931–1936’, Münster, Germany Walker Art Gallery, ‘New Italian Art 1953 – 1971’, Liverpool, England (Travelling Exhibition) Annely Juda Fine Art, ‘The Non–Objective World 1924 –1939’, London, England (Travelling Exhibition) Galleria Arte Centro, ‘Lazzari, Licini, Melotti’, Milan, Italy Galerie Jean Chauvelin, ‘La peinture Non–Objective 1924–1939’, Paris, France (Travelling Exhibition) Museo Poldi Pezzoli, ‘Milan 70/70 Un secolo d’arte, 2. 1915 – 1945’, Milan, Italy 1977 Galleria Editalia, Rome, Italy 1970 Musée des Arts Decoratifs, ‘Brera e gli artisti contemporanei’, Paris, France Palazzo Strozzi, ‘II Biennale Internazionale della grafica’. Florence, Italy The Museum of Modern Art, ‘Abstraction Creation. Art non figurative’, New York NY Château de Ratilly, ‘Espace – Lumière dans des sculptures du cubisme à aujourd’hui’, Treigny, France 1969 Palazzo Magistrale, ‘Scultori Italiani Contemporanei’, Valletta, Malta ‘Nuovi materiali nuove tecniche’, Caorle, Italy Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, ‘1960 – 1977. Arte in Italia’, Turin, Italy Vecchie Fornaci di Cunardo, ‘IV Rassegna Artisti Contemporanei 45 scultori di oggi’, Curnado, Italy Muzej Savremene Umetnosti, ‘Suvremena Talijanska Skulptura’, Belgrade, Serbia (Travelling Exhibition) Galleria Notizie, ‘Balla, Kandinsky, Leger, Soto, Magritte, Picabia, Ernst, Tanguy, Picasso, Fontana, Herbin, Manzoni, Pavilion Novaka, ‘Suvremena Talijanska Skulptura’, Murska Sobota, Slovenia (Travelling Exhibition) Melotti. Vasarely,Soldati, Mathieu, Tapies, Klein, Rauschenberg, Nigro, Twombly’, Turin, Italy Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France Galleria Civicia d’Arte Moderna, ‘Incrementi 1969’, Turin, Italy Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, ‘Aspetti del primo astrattismo italiano. 1930 – 1940’, Monza, Italy 1976 Moderna Galerija, ‘Suvremena Talijanska Skulptura’, Rijeka, Croatia (Travelling Exhibition) 1968 Galleria dell’Oca, ‘Scatola’, Rome, Italy Galleria Notizie, ‘…Leger, Tanguy, Picabia, Herbin, Mirò, Soldati, Fontana, Burri, De Chirico, Kandinsky, Magritte, Galleria Editalia Qui arte contemporanea, ‘Qui arte contemporanea. Dieci anni’, Rome, Italy Melotti, Balla, Brauner, Ernst’, Turin, Italy Pinacoteca Nazionale di Brera, ‘Brera e gli artisti contemporanei’, Milan, Italy Vismara arte contemporanea, ‘Dall’astratto alle nuove strutture’, Milan, Italy Galleria Blu, ‘L’Arte e il suo doppio’, Milan, Italy Vismara arte contemporanea, ‘15 maestri dell’astrattismo’, Milan, Italy Museo del Paesaggio, ‘Biennale internazionale di scultura contemporanea Aptico. Il senso della scultura’, Verbania- Galleria Notizie, ‘Esperienze dell’astrattismo italiano. 1930–1940’, Turin, Italy Pallanza, Italy Galleria dell’Ariete, ‘Revisione 3. Scultura’, Milan, Italy 1967 Galleria Rondanini, ‘Estate ’76. Collettiva di documentazione’, Rome, Italy Galéries Lafayettes, ‘Domus Formes Italiennes’, Paris, France Taidehalli, Helsingfors Konsthall, ‘Bronzetto Italialaisa pienoispronsseja. Italienska bronsstatyetter’, Helsinki, Finland Palazzo Strozzi, ‘Arte Moderna in Italia. 1915–1935’, Florence, Italy

1975 1966 Grand Palais des Champs–Elysées, ‘Salon d’Automne 1975. Hommage a Michel–Ange’, Paris, France Giardini della Biennale, ‘XXXIII Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte’, Venice, Italy Castello Trecentesco, ‘VIII Mostra d’Arte Sacra Prima Triennale Europea’, Celano, Italy Pinacoteca Nazionale, ‘Scultori Italiani Contemporanei’, Athens, Greece 1963 Studio Marconi, ‘Arte per i Diritti Civili’, Milan, Italy Castello Cinquecentesco, ‘Aspetti dell’Arte Contemporanea’, L’Aquila, Italy Galleria Galatea, ‘Selezione 12’, Turin, Italy Pinacoteca Civica, ‘1 Biennale d’Arte Città di Imperia’, Imperia, Italy 1961 Villa Malpensata, ‘Scultori Italiani Contemporanei’, Lugano, Switzerland Sede Lissone, XII premio Città di Lissone’, Lissone, Italy Palazzo del Lavoro, ‘Esposizione Internazionale del Lavoro. Italia ’61’, Turin, Italy 1974 Museo Progressivo d’Arte Contemporanea, ‘In Progress. I Biennale Immagini e visualità – Modelli e progetti per un 1959 museo progressivo’, Livorno, Italy Musée des Beaux–Arts, ‘La céramique contemporaine’, Ostend, Belgium Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Palazzo dei Diamanti, ‘Omaggio all’Ariosto’, Ferrara, Italy Palazzo della Permanente, ‘50 Anni d’Arte a Milano. Dal Divisionismo ad oggi’, Milan, Italy Galleria Galatea, ‘Selezione 11’, Turin, Italy Galerie Depot 15, ‘Abstraction Création. Art non figurative. 1932 – 1936’, Paris, France 1958 Società per le Belle Arti ed Esposizione Permanente, ‘LXII Mostra Annuale’, Milan, Italy 1973 Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, ‘Sculptures italiennes contemporaines’, Brussels, Belgium 1957 Musée de sculpture en plein air Middelheim, ‘12 Biennale’, Antwerp, Belgium Palazzo dell’Arte al Parco, ‘XI Triennale di Milan’, Milan, Italy Galleria Galatea, ‘Selezione 10’, Turin, Italy Galérie Christofle, ‘Formes idées d’Italie’, Paris, France Palazzo delle Esposizioni, ‘X Quadriennale Nazionale d’Arte Situazione dell’arte non figurativa Vol. 2’, Rome, Italy Palazzo Serbelloni, ‘Circolo della Stampa, Cinquanta ceramisti italiani. 1952 – 1957’, Milan, Italy

1972 1956 Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, ‘Maestri del XIX e XX secolo’, Rome, Italy Giardini della Biennale, ‘XXVIII Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte’, Venice, Italy Giardini della Biennale, ‘XXXVI Biennale di Venezia Esposizione internazionale d’arte’, Venice, Italy Museo Poldi Pezzoli, ‘Milan 70/70 Un secolo d’arte, 3. 1946 – 1970’, Milan, Italy 1955 Palais de l’Athénée, ‘4 Artistes Italiens’, Geneve, Switzerland Palazzo delle Esposizioni, ‘VII Quadriennale Nazionale d’Arte di Rome’, Rome, Italy Accademia di Belle Arti, ‘Immagine per la città’, Genoa, Italy Palazzo delle Esposizioni, ‘Mostra Internazionale di Arte Contemporanea’, Rome, Italy

58 59 1954 Rue La Boétie, ‘Premier Salon de l’Art Mural’, Paris, France Palazzo dell’Arte al Parco, ‘X Triennale di Milan’, Milan, Italy Studio di Casorati e Paulucci, ‘Prima mostra collettiva di arte astratta italiana’, Turin, Italy Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche di Faenza, ‘XII Concorso Nazionale della Ceramica’, Faenza, Italy Palazzo dell’Arte – Parco, ‘Mostra dello Sport’, Milan, Italy Hetjens – Museum, ‘Moderne Italienische Keramik’, Dusseldorf, Germany (Travelling Exhibition) 1934 1953 ‘35 Artistes Italiens’, Lausanne, Switzerland Orangerie, ‘Moderne Italienische Keramik’, Karlsruhe, Germany (Travelling Exhibition) Palais de l’Athénée, ‘Exposition d’Art Italien’, Geneva, Switzerland Landesgewerbemuseum, Moderne Italienische Keramik’, Stuttgart, Germany (Travelling Exhibition) Neuen Sammlung, ‘Moderne Italienische Keramik’, Munich, Germany (Travelling Exhibition) 1933 Liljevalchs Konsthall, ‘Nutida italiensk konst’, Stockholm, Sweden Palazzo dell’Arte al Parco, ‘V Triennale di Milan’, Milan, Italy Palazzo del Parterre di S. Gallo, ‘Prima Mostra del Sindacato Nazionale Fascista di Belle Arti’, Florence, Italy 1952 Palazzo della Permanente, ‘IV Mostra d’Arte del Sindacato Regionale Fascista delle Belle Arti di Lombardia, Biennale Galérie de l’Orfèvrerie Christofle, ‘Art décoratif italien’, Paris, France di Brera’, Milan, Italy Giardini della Biennale, ‘XXVI Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte’, Venice, Italy Dopolavoro Cotonificio Fratelli dell’Acqua, ‘Mostra d’Arte Moderna’, Legnano, Italy

1951 1932 Galleria Bergamini, ‘Raccolta Bernasconi’, Milan, Italy Palazzo della Permanente, ‘III Mostra d’Arte del Sindacato Regionale Fascista Belle Arti di Lombardia, Biennale di Palazzo dell’Arte al Parco, ‘IX Triennale di Milan’, Milan, Italy Brera’, Milan, Italy Galleria Bompiani, ‘Arte astratta italiana 1. I primi astrattisti italiani. 1913 – 1940’, Milan, Italy Amici della Francia, ‘Mostra delle ceramiche italo–francesi’, Milan, Italy 1930 Villa Reale, ‘IV Esposizione Triennale Internazionale d’Arte Decorativa e Industriale Moderna’, Monza, Italy 1950 Brooklyn Museum, ‘Italy at work. Her Renaissance in design today’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition) Giardini di Castello, ‘XXV Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte’, Venice, Italy Awards & Grants The Art Institute of Chicago, ‘Italy at work. Her Renaissance in design today’, Chicago IL (Travelling Exhibition) 1986 1949 Golden Lion, awarded posthumously, XLII Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Galleria dell’Annunciata, ‘14 Ceramisti’, Milan, Italy 1978 1948 Premio Antonio Feltrinelli for Sculpture, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy Giardini di Castello, ‘XXIV Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte’, Venice, Italy House of Italian Handicraft, ‘Handicraft as a fine art in Italy’, New York NY 1977 15th Premio Europeo Umberto Biancamano 1947 Palazzo dell’Arte al Parco, ‘Ottava Triennale di Milano. Esposizione internazionale delle arti decorative e industriali 1974 moderne e dell’architettura moderna’, Milan, Italy Rembrandt Prize, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Foundation, Basel, Switzerland

1943 1964 Palazzo delle Esposizioni, ‘IV Quadriennale d’Arte Nazionale’, Rome, Italy Gold Medal, International Exhibition, Munich, Germany

1941 1962 Palazzo dell’Arte al Parco, ‘III Mostra del Sindacato Nazionale Fascista Belle Arti’, Milan, Italy Gold Medal, International Exhibition, Prague, Czech Republic

1940 1958 Palazzo dell’Arte al Parco, ‘VII Triennale di Milano’, Milan, Italy Grand Gold Metal for Italian Craftmanship, Milan, Italy

1939 1951 Dopolavoro Sindacato Belle Arti, ‘Loggiato di Piazza Giovinezza, Presepio degli artisti’, Milan, Italy Grand Prize, IX Triennale di Mlian, Milan, Italy

1937 1938 Galleria d’Arte Genova, ‘Venti firme in una mostra collettiva’, Genoa, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Premio La Sarraz, Switzerland Galleria del Milione, ‘Venti firme in una mostra collettiva’, Milan, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Padiglione dell’Italia, ‘Esposizione Internazionale’, Paris, France

1936 Galeria Moody, ‘Primera Exposicion de dibujos bulletin grabados abstractos’, Buenos Aires, Argentina Villa Olmo, ‘Mostra di pittura moderna italiana’, Como, Italy Palazzo dell’Arte al Parco, ‘VI Triennale di Milan’, Milan, Italy

1935 Galleria del Milione, ‘Collettiva di bianco e nero’, Milan, Italy

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