1986 OfficinOttanta – Una situazione ferrarese, Castello Estense, Ferrara

1987 Per Schifanoja , Castello Estense, Ferrara

1987 Come fossi una bambola, Palazzo Gulinelli, Portomaggiore, Ferrara

1989 Pinocchio. La scena, lo schermo, il libro, Palazzo Massari, Ferrara

1989 Sogni d’oro – Quindici artisti per Salvador Dalì, Rocca Possente, Stellata, Ferrara

1989 Per Isabella, Rocca Possente, Stellata

1989 Per Isabella, Casa di Stella dell’Assassino, Ferrara

1990 Per Isabella, Palazzo Ducale, Mantova

1991 I sogni nel cassetto, Casa dell’Ariosto, Ferrara

1994 Scuola Rudolf Steiner, Milano

1994 Galleria Bonzano, Milano

1996 Le sorelle Grimm, Galleria Art Directors, Milano

1997 Portofranco, Living Art Gallery, Milano; Portofranco, Galleria Alter, Torino

1998 Candele senza vento, Fabbrica Eos, Milano

1999 Galleria Ciovasso, Milano

1999 Galleria Victor Saavedra, Barcellona; Galleria Col, Tokyo; Galleria Col, Osaka;  Galleria Betta    Frigeri, Sassuolo, Modena; Galleria Centro Steccata, Parma

2001 Galleria Studio Ippolito Simonis, Parigi

2001 Lisa Ponti, Enzo Forese, Gabriele Turola, Galleria Franco Toselli, Milano

2002 Col Sale, Galleria in Arco, Torino

2002 A tutto tondo, Museo della Permanente, Milano

2004 Cacao. L’arte comunica il cioccolato, Gli Antichi Chiostri, Torino

2005 Affinités, Le pavé dans la mare, Besançon(F)

2005 Il mondo di Lisa Ponti, Palazzo delle Stelline, Milano

2011 Saluzzo Arte, Fondazione Amleto Bertoni, Antiche Scuderie, Saluzzo

2018 Soft Revolution. Franco Toselli e gli artisti di Portofranco, Triennale, Palazzo dell’Arte, Milano

2022 Antologia, Biasutti & Biasutti, Torino

Andrea Nisbet was born in Torre Pellice (Turin) in 1960. He graduated from Turin's Art High School in 1978 and then studied restoration at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome with Professor Pagliani.

From the end of the 1980's Nisbet began to establish and personalise his own artistic identity, launching a fortunate portfolio which led to numerous personal and collective exhibitions in public and private locations, both in Italy and abroad. His early, predominantly pictorial, works concentrate on the depiction of places linked to the history and the life of humankind (charnel houses, abandoned huts and obsolete factories): desolate landscapes bare of human beings, the very existence of these images inexorably reveals humankind's presence and determination. They provoke a reflection on destiny and on the presumed possibility or liberty of intervention in the course of events.

This is perceptible in the paintings Nisbet produced in the mid 1900s: scenes of roadways, in a suspended atmosphere, over which the possibility of a tragic event hovers. These images seem to leave no space in which to choose or decide the course of events. Since then Andrea Nisbet has created a collection of drawings, videos and environmental installations with the intention of overthrowing spatial coordinates in favour of unsettling locations. This motivates his choice to highlight contradictions and to upset more reassuring visions. His aim is to "affirm the right of Art to follow routes outside of consolidated logic, to choose its own destiny, to create a universe of signs which are both independent and dependent on the apparent horizon". (Mario Bertoni)

1989 Gabriele Turola, Centro Culturale Einaudi di Quacchio, Ferrara

1988 Gabriele Turola, Artstudio, Portomaggiore

1989 Gabriele Turola, Galleria del Candelaio, Firenze

1989 Gabriele Turola, Circolo Casablanca, Revere, Mantova

1989 Gabriele Turola, Circolo La Lepre di Marzo, Milano

1991 Gabriele Turola, Casa dell’Ariosto, Ferrara

1993 Gabriele Turola, Casa Museo Remo Brindisi, Lido di Spina, Ferrara

1998 Gabriele Turola, Galleria Cà di Frà, Milano

2002 Gabriele Turola, Galleria Toselli, Milano

2006 Gabriele Turola. Fantasie del mondo naturale, Biasutti & Biasutti, Torino

2006 Gabriele Turola, Spazio Juliet, Trieste

2007 Gabriele Turola. Il volto segreto delle cose, Galleria Toselli

2008 Giardino, Galleria Atlantica, Vicenza

2009 Gabriele Turola. Filastrocche, storie e racconti, Biasutti & Biasutti, Torino

2009 I misteri del mestiere, Circolo degli Artisti, Torino

2019 La fantasia è la vera realtà, Casa Turese, Vitulano

2022 Le parole e i colori di Gabriele Turola, Biasutti & Biasutti, Torino

Works of special interest:

2002 He created a greeting card for the New Year for Unesco, printed in 11.000 copies, taken from his painting “l’ Arca di Noé”

2007 He created the cover of the book Schegge di utopia. Ferrara città di scrittori, La Carmelina Edizioni, also taking part as an author with the story Il diario delle stelle

2020 The book “Nei sogni di una cometa” by Monica Taddia, Edizioni Faust, Ferrara, includes two never before seen illustrations by the artist, one of which used by the cover

ESSENTIAL BIBLIOGRPHY

By Gabriele Turola

Gabriele Turola, La voce delle cose, Liberty house Casa Editrice, Ferrara, 1992

Gabriele Turola, Nel magico mondo della gatta Sofia. Poesie, filastrocche, disegni dedicati al mondo felino, illustrazioni di Franca Camisotti Felloni ; prefazione di Gianfranco Rossi,  Industrie grafiche, Ferrara, 1994

Gabriele Turola, Il diario delle stelle in AA. VV., Schegge di utopia. Ferrara città di scrittori, La Carmelina Edizioni, Ferrara, 2007

Gabriele Turola, Misteri di arte e magi. Pittori, alchimisti, medium, Faust Edizioni, Ferrara, 2013

Gabriele Turola ha collaborato a riviste quali “La Pianura”, “Libero” ed al quotidiano “Il Resto del Carlino”

On Gabriele Turola

R. Vidali, Gabriele Turola. Fiori, dolcetti e raggi di sole, in NTWK, rivista mensile, Trieste, n° 96, marzo 2006, p. 14

F. Agostinelli, Gabriele Turola, in Juliet, rivista mensile, Trieste, n° 125, dicembre 2005 –gennaio 2006, p. 65

R. Vidali, Gabriele Turola, in Juliet, rivista mensile, Trieste, n° 129, ottobre – novembre 2006, pp. 52, 53

R. Vidali, La medicina dei colori, in Zeno, settimanale, Trieste, n° 65, novembre 2006, pp. 34, 35, 36

N. De Maria, Il pittore Gabriele Turola, in “Fantasie del mondo naturale”, catalogo della mostra, Biasutti & Biasutti, Torino, 2006

E. Pontiggia, I mirtilli di Gabriele Turola, in “Fantasie del mondo naturale”, catalogo della mostra, Biasutti & Biasutti, Torino, 2006

L. Ponti, Nel cielo di Gabriele, in “Il volto segreto delle cose”, catalogo della mostra, Galleria Toselli, Milano, 2007

Francesco Tabusso* (b. 1930), Turin by ancestry and for all his life, was born on the outskirts of Milan, in Sesto San Giovanni, where the family moved for a short time following his father, an engineer.

Having manifested early his passion for painting, he graduated from classical high school before embarking on a rigorous apprenticeship under the guidance of Felice Casorati. Far from being an epigone, Tabusso cultivates a love for the profession and reasoning on ancient masters at the school of the famous teacher, inheriting from Casorati the ability to transfigure reality, to restore its enchanted dimension, out of time, in a sort of "magical realism" with the tones of a fairy tale, completely personal.

By electing a rural world of even popular inspiration as a subject, Tabusso manifested from the beginning an authentic "vocation to the story", which led him to collaborate with some of the best-known names in Italian literature of the twentieth century, such as Piero Chiara, Dino Buzzati, Mario Soldati, Mario Rigoni Stern.

1954 is the year of the exhibition debut and the first participation in the Venice Biennale. In short, the artist is invited to the main national and international exhibitions, winning numerous awards. From 1963 to 1984, he combined teaching activities with painting: he taught ornate art at the Bergamo Art School, then figure at the Albertina Academy of Turin.

Also since 1963 Tabusso collaborates with Gian Ferrari Gallery in Milan, which will take care of the exclusive business for about thirty years, organizing in those years more than sixty personal exhibitions of the author in Italy and abroad.

By virtue of an art that has always celebrated creation and all its creatures with the simplicity and communicative power of a modern "primitive", he was called to create in 1975, for the Church of San Francesco al Fopponino in Milan designed by Gio Ponti, the monumental altarpiece Il Cantico delle Creature (96 square meters of painting), and subsequently the eight triptychs with the stories of the Saint.

Tabusso died in Turin in 2012 after about sixty years of tireless artistic activity.

* biographical information by the Francesco Tabusso Archive