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OPENING: Thursday 23 April 2025 6 p.m. From 15 May to 28 June 2025 Biasutti & Biasutti Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition dedicated to the Italian artist Giorgio Ramella (b. 1939, Turin). The exhibition presents a curated selection of twenty-three works that span the last decades of the artist’s career, offering a compelling journey through his deeply symbolic and lyrical visual language. Following classical studies, Ramella trained at the Accademia Albertina in Turin, where he studied painting under Enrico Paulucci and printmaking with Mario Calandri. His debut exhibition took place in May 1964 at Galleria La Bussola. Since then, Ramella has exhibited extensively in both national and international galleries and museums. A central theme of the exhibition is the idea of the “journey”—not just geographic, but mental and emotional. Ramella's works are reflections of inner landscapes, rich with cultural references and mythological echoes. Particularly prominent is his homage to Ancient Greece, with a powerful cycle inspired by The Odyssey and the character of Ulysses, a figure who embodies intelligence as a means of survival and triumph. These works depict deities rendered with human features, blurring the boundaries between myth and humanity. The exhibition also includes Ramella’s recent series on Africa, created between 2020 and 2025. These paintings convey the vastness and mystery of the African continent through a vibrant interplay of color and contrast—bright hues evoke the intensity of daylight, while deep, dark tones capture the allure of night. As the late writer Nico Orengo once noted, Ramella is "a painter who swims in color"—a phrase that perfectly captures the sensuous depth and movement within his work. Highlights of the exhibition include: Orizzonte blu (Blue Horizon, 2008), Penelope sogna (Penelope Dreams, 2012), Ancella II (Handmaiden I, 2014), Ancella III (Handmaiden II, 2014), Canto I (Song I, 2014). Works from the Afriche (Africas) series, (2020–2025).
Galleria Biasutti & Biasutti, Via Bonafous, 7/L – 10123 Torino
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