Giovanni Anselmo (b. 1934, Borgofranco, Ivrea – d. 2023, Turin) is one of the legendary artists, who first emerged as part of the Arte Povera group during the second half of the 1960s while engaged in research aimed at highlighting the constant dialogue between the visible and the invisible. “Most of the reality is invisible and the visible things give us the possibility of deducing the invisible” said the artist. His visible materials are natural elements and industrial products, often seemingly modest – light projectors, magnetic needles, granite stone, photographs, dirt, and portions of ultramarine blue – while invisible materials include magnetic fields, gravitational force, and the surrounding space in which we happen to be. In 1967, he participated in the group exhibition “Arte Povera –Im Spazio” at La Bertesca gallery, in Genoa. His first solo show was in 1968 at Sperone gallery, Turin. That same year, he participated in “Prospect ‘68”, Dusseldorf and “9 at Leo Castelli”, New York. In 1972 he exhibited at Documenta 5, Kassel. A retrospective exhibition of his work was held at Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela (1995), and at the Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice (1996). In 2004 he exhibited at Museum Kurhaus, Kleve and in 2015 in Saint-Étienne at Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain. In 2016 at Castello di Rivoli, Turin and in 2019 at Accademia Nazionale San Luca in Rome. In 2024, the exhibition “Giovanni Anselmo. Beyond the horizon” first at Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and then at Maxxi in Rome was a homage to the artist after he passed away.

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

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)