Giorgio Ramella: CV
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Giorgio Ramella (Turin, 1939) is an Italian painter and printmaker, a significant figure in the artistic landscape of the second half of the twentieth century. After completing classical studies, he trained at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin, where he studied painting under Enrico Paulucci and printmaking techniques under Mario Calandri.
He made his debut in the 1960s with a group exhibition at Galleria La Bussola in Turin, where he exhibited alongside Ruggeri, Saroni, Soffiantino, and Gastini. In 1964, he held his first solo show at the same gallery. His early works, grouped under the title Incidenti (“Incidents”), were characterized by formal and material tension: deformed structures, metal, shadows—all within a dramatic and rigorously expressive context.
In the following years, Ramella pursued a more abstract approach, focused on the phenomena of light, and then returned in the 1980s to a form of figuration rich in symbolic and chromatic tension. One of his most important works from this period is the large Crucifixion from 1994, now part of the collection of the GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Turin. A trip to New York exposed him to urban graffiti, which influenced a new phase in his work inspired by primitive and cave art languages, featuring textured surfaces and evocative signs. His art has consistently sought a balance between compositional rigor, emotional depth, and historical layering.
Ramella developed and worked within a vibrant and complex artistic environment, influenced by international trends but also deeply rooted in Turin’s tradition of printmaking and formal experimentation. In the 1960s and 1970s, the city was a hub of intellectual ferment—from Arte Povera to new figuration—in a constant dialogue between memory and innovation. Within this context, Ramella maintained an independent stance: close to contemporary movements but never fully aligned, he was capable of forging a personal language that reflected both the tensions of his time and a deep internal need for meaning and structure.
He has exhibited in prestigious Italian and international venues, including the Rome Quadriennale, the Venice Biennale of Printmaking, the Castello di Rivoli, the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo, and the Complesso del Vittoriano in Rome. In addition to painting, Ramella created several mural works, including one in 2003 for the MAU – Museo d’ Arte Urbana in Turin. In 2017, two of his works were featured in the exhibition on Italian Pop Art at the GAM in Turin.
He currently lives and works in Turin, continuing his artistic practice with renewed creative energy.
Giovanni Anselmo: CV
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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.
Sergio Ragalzi: CV
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SERGIO RAGALZI (Turin, 1951 – 2024). He made his début on the contemporary Italian art scene in the early 1980s, with solo and group exhibitions including those at the Galleria L’ Attico in Rome, with which he would have a special relationship over the years. In 1985 he participated in the exhibition “Anniottanta” at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Bologna. In the same year, in addition to being invited to the Museo de Arte in San Paolo in Brazil, he was present with some works at the Centre National d’Art Contemporain in Nice on the occasion of the exhibition “L’Italie Aujour’dui”, curated by A.B. Oliva, Maurizio Calvesi, Antonio Del Guercio and Filiberto Menna. In 1986 he participated in the travelling exhibition between Frankfurt, Hannover and Vienna, entitled “Aspekte der italienischen Kunst 1960 – 1985”, curated by Renato Barilli. Ten years later, he participated in the XII Quadriennale d’Arte at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. In 1997 he won the Prize of the Chamber of Deputies, which for the occasion acquired one of his works. In 2001, his sculptures were shown at the exhibition “Italian sculpture of the 20th century, Italy in Japan 2001 – 2002” in the three Japanese modern art museums of Ibaraki, Yokohama and Kagoshima. In 2007 an anthological exhibition of his work was organized in the spaces of the Pagliero factory in Castellamonte. In 2010, the installation Genetica 2093 was presented at the Auditorium in Rome, at SuperstudioPiù in Milan, at the Lucas Carrieri Art Gallery in Berlin on the occasion of the sixth Berlin Art Biennial, then in Turin in via Palazzo di Città and at the Castello di Rivara. The same installation was ehibited in Rome, at the MACRO. Since 2010 there have been numerous exhibitions in private galleries and public institutions both in Italy and abroad.
GABRIELE TUROLA: GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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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