Studio d’Arte Raffaelli is pleased to present its new exhibition, Works on Paper.
As the title suggests, the exhibition consists of a collection of works on paper that offers the public numerous works by Italian and international artists.
The first room hosts the likes of Marlene Dumas, Gilberto Zorio, Robert Longo, Donald Baechler, Malcolm Morley, Ross Bleckner and Mark Joshua Epstein, whose work appears in Hyperallergic, Chronogram, Whitewall, New American Paintings, Art Maze Magazine, Dovetail and Two Coats of Paint.
Epstein is currently an artist-in-residence for 2024/2025 at the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program in Brooklyn, NY.
The entrance to the second room is preceded by a work by American Brian Belott, featured in the 2021 exhibition The Reassembler, hosted by Cellar Contemporary.
Sandro Chia, Tano Festa, Peter Schuyff, Ronnie Cutrone, James Brown, and Philip Taaffe, along with Belott himself, set up this second wing of the gallery, dedicated to the theme of “red”.
In Tano Festa’s work, in particular, the chromatic element plays a central role, marking a specific phase of his artistic activity: in fact, starting in the 1960s, the artist favored the color red in his monochrome paintings, evoking both the organic matter of blood and the light employed in the darkroom.
Instead, in the atrium that anticipates the basement, we find Angelo Maisto, a refined watercolorist and skilled bricoleur, engaged for years in the creation of what art critic Valerio Dehò has christened Codex Maisti.
Continuing in the last room, Gianmarco Montesano and Jenny Watson – that pays homage to the city of Trento with a direct quotation – are flanked by Jan Knap‘s watercolor, Nanni Balestrini‘s mixed media and Jiri Georg Dokoupil‘s delicate drawing on paper.
In this new exhibition with a heterogeneous aesthetics, which can be visited through September, Studio d’Arte Raffaelli offers a wide-ranging look at the diverse sensibilities of nineteen artists who have made their mark on the history of contemporary art.