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THIS EVENT IS BY INVITATION ONLY and jointly hosted with The Club di Londra. If you are not a member and you wish to attend, please contact us to be added on our guest list (subject to availability).
An exclusive view of the first solo exhibition in the UK of Emilio Vedova (1919-2006), one of the most influential abstract Italian artists of his time.
The exhibition will reunite his five monumental canvases from the landmark documenta 7 exhibition in 1982, curated by Rudi Fuchs. These paintings will be shown alongside a selection of important works from the 1980s, a period considered the pinnacle of the artist’s career. Presented in association with the Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, this exhibition marks the fourth decade since his participation in documenta 7 in Kassel and the 40th Venice Biennale, held in the same year.
Founded in 1983, Thaddaeus Ropac has galleries across Europe and Asia, located in London, Paris, Salzburg and Seoul. Specialising in contemporary art and representing over 60 artists, the gallery supports and showcases the careers of some of the most influential artists today with a wide-ranging programme of over 40 exhibitions curated at the six extensive and historic gallery spaces each year.
The view includes a talk by a gallery representative followed by a drinks reception
Please Note:
To participate to this event we do require a minimum donation of £5, however we strongly encourage all those attending to consider making a donation of £15. Thank you.
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Royal Holloway College’s stunning Founder’s Building was unveiled by Queen Victoria in 1886. iT IS still the focal point of the campus. In 1900, the colleges became part of the University of London and in 1985 they merged to form what is now known as Royal Holloway. Today’s Royal Holloway is formed from two colleges, founded by two social pioneers, Elizabeth Jesser Reid and Thomas Holloway. They were among the first places in Britain where women could access higher education.
The visit includes:
3:30 – 4:30 pm
Tour of Founder’s Building, such as Chapel (maybe limited due to repair works) , North Quad, Founder’s Dining Hall, South Quad, Founder’s Reading Room, Victorian corridor.
4:30 -5.00 pm
Talk on the paintings by the Curator
5:00-5:30 pm
Talk by Professor Giuliana Pieri
5:30-6:00pm
Reception with drinks and canapés
The private collectors museum is a phenomenon of the 21st century, and Italy has an important place in the ranking. It is fifth on the line-up globally, and has the second highest number of private exhibition spaces in Europe following Germany. In this talk, Georgina Adam, author of The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museum (Italian edition, L’Ascesa Inarrestabile dei Musei Privati) will explain what are the motivations of private collectors to set up their own spaces, why luxury brands are major players – in Italy and elsewhere. She looks at the delicate balance between public and private museums and finally asks what will be the future of these spaces when the founders pass on.
Georgina Adam is a journalist and author. She has spent many decades writing about the art market and the arts in general. She is editor-at-large for The Art Newspaper and a contributor to the Financial Times. She initially studied Islamic Art at the Ecole du Louvre and also lived for five years in Japan. She has written two books about the art market – Big Bucks (Lund Humphries, 2014) and Dark Side (Lund Humphries, 2018) and a third book, The Rise and Rise of Private Museums (2021). She is membership chair of Cromwell Place in London, and a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and The International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA).
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A DRINKS RECEPTION WILL FOLLOW THE TALK
Please note: at the end pf the talk it will be possible to buy the author’s book from The Italian Bookshop
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“For us, art in Milan had sold its soul to upholstery. No one cared about art…even though none of the designers’ lights would ever reach the spiritual intensity of a single neon by Flavin.” With this statement the art critic Tommaso Trini sums up the perceived rivalry between postwar Italian art and contemporary industrial design. Taking as a starting point the display of trendy inflatable couches, designer lights and sleek vacuum cleaners, this lecture highlights the work of well-known industrial designers such as Ettore Sottsass and Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, which will be considered alongside that of contemporary artists and filmmakers, including Pino Pascali and Michelangelo Antonioni.
Dr Flavia Frigeri is an art historian and ‘Chanel Curator for the Collection’ at the National Portrait Gallery, London. From 2016 to 2020 she was a Teaching Fellow in the History of Art Department UCL and continues to be a longstanding member of faculty on Sotheby’s Institute’s MA in Contemporary Art. Previously she was ‘Curator, International Art’ at Tate Modern, where she co-curated The World Goes Pop (2015), and was responsible for Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs (2014), Paul Klee: Making Visible (2013) and Ruins in Reverse (2013). She is the author of “Pop Artand Women Artists” both in Thames & Hudson’s Art Essentials series and the co-editor of a volume of collected essays, “New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era: Multiple Modernisms” (Routledge, 2021). As an independent curator, her recent curatorial work includes: Carol Rama: Eye of Eyes (Lévy Gorvy, New York, 2019), Boom: Art and Industry in 1960s Italy (Tornabuoni, London, 2018) Invisible Cities (Waddington Custot, London, 2018) and Evolutionary Travels, the inaugural show of Fundación Arte in Buenos Aires in 2016.
A DRINKS RECEPTION WILL FOLLOW THE TALK
If you wish to buy the latest books by Flavia Frigeri, please click the folling links:
https://thamesandhudson.com/women-artists-art-essentials-9780500294352
https://thamesandhudson.com/pop-art-art-essentials-9780500293584
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Since it was founded in 1941, the British-Italian Society has worked to promote knowledge and understanding in the UK of Italian culture, including Italy’s history, institutions, way of life, language and wider contribution to civilisation.
The British-Italian Society
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