Untitled 1999

Mixed media on wood. Signed and dated on the back. Born in Magenta, Giovanni Sesia does not define himself as a painter or even a sculptor or photographer, but an "artist". He attended the Brera Academy in Milan and approached painting with paintings with a strong sign and bright colors. After an initial artistic research in abstractionism and the discovery of photography as a technical means to combine with pictorial expressiveness, at the end of the nineties Giovanni Sesia discovers an entire photographic archive of an abandoned psychiatric hospital: fascinated by old photographs, which portray faces and forgotten places, the artist enlarges and re-elaborates them by superimposing backgrounds, pictorial retouches and calligraphic inserts, investigating the theme of madness and bringing to light existences marked by pain and disease, to subtract them from the passage of time and oblivion. The sense of tradition, the warm colors of the earth, browns, ocher and rust, like the writings made with an almost illegible handwriting, become the personal and unmistakable traits even in the works that represent different themes, such as domestic objects, the landscapes, the city, all with a common matrix, the human being and the value of memory. The work is framed.

Flight to Egypt 1991

Acrylics on board. Accompanied by authentication on autographed photo of the author, with stamp of the Verlato Gallery in Milan. The work presented here is part of the rich series of works called by the artist Cristalli, due to the reference to the geometries of these minerals, which he considers containers of energy and light. On a three-dimensionally shaped board with asymmetrical protruding points, recalling the structure of a crystal, Jori paints elements that emerge from the background, with chromatic choices that all refer to the same range but with different shades, to emulate the reflections of light. This work is made up of three elements, of different sizes and shapes, which are proposed horizontally juxtaposed, albeit without touching each other: on the black background, the shapes of some geometric shapes emerge, in increasingly lighter shades of gray up to white, architectural structures, evoking houses along a road, the path made by the Holy Family in the flight to Egypt to seek salvation from Herod. The work comes from an important Milanese private collection.

Female Face 2001

Oil painting on canvas. Dated and signed on the back. Born in Seregno, Danilo Martinis was trained with Osvaldo Minotti. Painter and designer, he has furnished prestigious residences all over the world, his works are particularly appreciated in the United Arab Emirates and in Russia. He loves to express his thoughts through graphic-figurative images rendered through geometric effects and chromatic games, using mainly female figures as interpreters. In this work he proposes a close-up of a female face, enhancing its expressiveness through the play of colors in the ranges of yellow.

Eyes 1995

Oil painting on canvas. Dated and signed on the back. Born in Seregno, Danilo Martinis was trained with Osvaldo Minotti. Painter and designer, he has furnished prestigious residences all over the world, his works are particularly appreciated in the United Arab Emirates and in Russia. He loves to express his thoughts through graphic-figurative images rendered through geometric effects and chromatic games, using mainly female figures as interpreters. In this work he proposes a very close-up of a female face, in particular framing the eyes.

An hour ago 2000

Oil on the table. On the back there is a label of the Galleria Marescalchi in Bologna with the title, the date, the technical data of the work and the catalog number (cat. 91). Born in Viareggio, Alessandro Tofanelli first graduated from the Lucca art institute, and then moved from 1977 to 1980 in Milan to attend the Brera Academy in Milan, collaborating in those years as an illustrator for several magazines published by Rizzoli and Mondadori. It immediately began to establish itself, winning national awards; his pictorial works are exhibited in important Italian and foreign art galleries and are part of important private and public, national and international collections. Tofanelli has always combined his pictorial activity as a professional photographer and video documentary maker. Numerous are in fact his video works broadcast by the RAI networks, as well as his photographic services have been hosted in specialized publications. In all his artistic forms, Tofanelli expresses the strong bond with nature: immersed in it, a friendly nature, he lives it, breathes it, makes it his, interprets it giving it voice and paints it, transforming it into poetry and representing it in a a world that seems imaginary, but is rather a world that was, a world in itself, a reality bordering on dreams, an Eden in which life is simple and marked by the slow rhythm of daily gestures, and is identified in objects of everyday life in which the presence of Man can be perceived, telling his life and history without ever depicting him. The work is presented in a frame.

Square of Painting, 1990

Acrylics on board. Signed and dated on the back. Accompanied by authentication on autographed photo of the author, with stamp of the Verlato Gallery in Milan. The work presented here is part of the rich series of works called by the artist Cristalli, due to the reference to the geometries of these minerals, which he considers containers of energy and light. On a three-dimensionally shaped board with asymmetrical protruding points, recalling the structure of a crystal, Jori paints elements that emerge from the background, with chromatic choices that all refer to the same range but with different shades, to emulate the reflections of light. The work comes from an important Milanese private collection.

L.O.V.E.", 2014

Multiple in concrete. Seletti limited edition, dated 2014, presented in original wooden box. It is a 1:28 scale reproduction of the famous installation by Maurizio Cattelan in Piazza Affari in Milan. The original installation, created in 2010, which seems to depict an obscene gesture, has a precise meaning: the acronym that entitles it means Freedom, Hate, Revenge, Eternity and actually depicts a hand stretched out in the fascist salute with four severed fingers, therefore understood as a gesture of irreverence towards the fascist symbol. Maurizio Cattelan is currently the most highly rated living Italian artist; his works are shown in all the museums of the world. Starting from twentieth-century avant-gardism, with a critical approach, Cattelan in his works blends life and art, reality and fantasy together; with the passage of time, his actions become more and more sensationalistic and mass-media, aiming to "say" the avant-garde, but "show" the impossibility of it, making the avant-garde meet with nihilism. His works arouse a smile at first glance, but at the same time disturb the viewer, prompting him to reflect. The themes hidden in the artist's works are serious and profound: death, love, the meaning of life, failure. In several works he uses stuffed or fake animals, mannequins and wax plastic statues. The artist has also represented himself in some of his works. L

Still Life 1987

Natural wood inlay. Signed lower right. on the back this certificate of authenticity of the work signed by the artist, with the data of the work (technique, title and date of realization). It is a work carried out with the "knife" technique by the well-known master of Anagni (FR) Carlo Turri: combining the Renaissance style with the taste and creativity of high contemporary craftsmanship, he has created his works entirely by hand, using techniques of the fifteenth century and paying particular attention to chromatic research and three-dimensionality. Its tradition has been continued by his daughter Rita who, in the Anagni laboratory, applies classical and modern ornamental motifs not only on paintings but also on boiserie, furnishing and design elements. The work is inserted in the frame.

The Fall of St. Paul 2003

Acrylic on canvas. Signed and dated lower right. On the back: further signature of the artist with the technical data of the work, certificate of authenticity of the work signed by the artist, his autograph dedication to a friend priest and autograph description of the work data. Also attached is a brochure of the painter's personal exhibition, with several "Homages" to painters of antiquity, including this work. The recurring motif of these works is the horse, which in the production of the Parmesan artist Roberta Musi is a recurring theme in a sweetly obsessive way, which has led her to retrace the historical / artistic iconography linked to this animal backwards: he has taken up the works of Vitale da Bologna and Paolo Uccello, Cosmé Tura and Delacroix, or of the Parmigianino proposed here, reinterpreting them with wide margins of freedom and introducing deep breaths of vitality into them. In particular, this work pays homage to the homonymous painting by Parmigianino, made in 1527 and kept in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The work is presented in a frame.

Bas-relief

Bas-relief in wood, fabric and white tempera, evoking a stylized Crucifix. Mounted on a panel and presented in a display case.

Panel in copper and brass, worked with irregular geometric figures. Mounted on a white lacquered wooden panel. Inspired by the works of the sculptor and painter Lino Bersani (Genoa 1935).

Burnished and worked copper plate, with decorations in lighter spots, overhangs and holes, mounted on a red-stained plywood panel.

Sculpture - volume

Volume sculpture in bas-relief, consisting of rings and other metal shapes mounted on a metal panel. In frame.

Bas-relief sculpture, with metal wires, aluminum globe and lamp holder mounted in the shape of a butterfly on a glossy black plastic panel. On the back label of Studio EF, TOp model, Made in Italy.

Mixed technique bas-relief on chipboard. Abstract composition, with the date 1975 in the lower left. On the back the title, the date, and the declaration of revision of the same, with dedication and signature of the artist Stefano Colombo.

Enamel on rounded metal plate. On the back cataloging label, of the Smalti De Poli of Padua, which refers to the artist Paolo De Poli (1905-1996): this is a tribute to the Paduan artist who distinguished himself for his works in fired enamel on metal. In frame.

Untitled 1977

Acrylic on canvas. On the back the signature of the author, the date 12-5-1977 and the place of realization Milan. Keizo Morishita born in Kitakyushu in Japan, at the age of nineteen he moved to Italy thanks to a scholarship, he attended the Brera Academy in Milan under the guidance of Marino Marini and in 1968 he graduated in sculpture. Later, however, he chose to express himself pictorially, developing a personal style that was born from a meditated and highly cultivated encounter between Eastern culture and European artistic expression. From the Archipelagos of the seventies - of which the work presented here belongs - to the more recent Landscapes of memory, his paintings present ideal landscapes of absolute formal purity and great chromatic intensity, ordered according to a perfect geometry of forms and immersed in a crystalline light. He was the protagonist of an intense exhibition activity in both Italian and foreign public and private galleries.

The Red Fan 1973

Oil on sand applied to canvas. Signed and dated lower right. On the back label of the artist with the data of the work (title, technique, measures, date) and stamp of the Gallery of origin. Vittorio Maria di Carlo was born in San Marco in Lamis, in the Gargano. He was recognized as a young emerging artist at the time of the "New Figuration" and has enjoyed considerable success in numerous collective and personal exhibitions. Later, he settled in Milan, alternating his Lombard residence with periods spent in Manila. The work proposes a female figure that flies on a red fan, in the characteristic style of the artist, which proposes figures made with geometric lines and bright colors. In frame.

Foldable poster, printed in eight colors, of the exhibition \"Vanitas: Skulls and self-portraits 1976-1986\", held at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery of London from November 1985 to January 1996. On the front a composition of eight \"skulls is presented. by Warhol, symbol of the transience of life; on the back, in black and white, the title of the exhibition, a critical review and the catalog of Andy Warhol's works, on the two themes of skulls and self-portraits. Dimensions of the open leaflet: 83, 8 X 53.2 cm.

'Si fanno in 4 per Paolo' 2010

Thin aluminum laminate sprayed with acrylic colors. On the back there is the self-certification form of the work, with the signature and all the data (title, size, technique, date and dedication). The title is also expressed on the reverse, by punching in the center. "Eugenio Sgaravatti was born in Rome. He attended schools in Italy, Switzerland, Holland and England. The passion for traveling led him to a hundred different countries, deepening his humanistic knowledge. The large amount of messages received in his travels stimulate his vocation and push the artist to devote himself exclusively to painting. He works in his studio in the capital at Villa Iris in Via Appia Antica 107. He paints abstract compositions and landscapes with some figurative jolts. His works contain elements of repetitiveness, which reflect the obsessive and serial character of contemporary life. He paints in oils but also experiments with acrylic paints, polyurethane resins and powder pigments. Given his versatility, the supports vary: canvas, cardboard, wood and metal laminates. " (biography taken from the artist's website). Work presented in frame.