Banquet Gallery opens in Milan's Lambrate district with Mario Silva solo show

Banquet, a new contemporary art gallery, opens on February 20, 2024, at Via Gozzano 4 in Milan, near the Buenos Aires-Lambrate axis. Founded by Giangiacomo Cirla, who previously directed OPR gallery, along with two other experienced dealers, the 160-square-meter space spans two floors and targets mid-career and established artists, with few emerging ones. The inaugural exhibition, UNALINE, is a solo show by Mario Silva, the youngest artist in the roster. The gallery emphasizes research-based practice over commercial sales, with artists like Giuseppe De Mattia, Carlo Zanni, and Matteo Cremonesi, most over 40. The space combines a formal street-level area with an industrial basement, designed to present one artist at a time in an organic narrative. Banquet aims to foster long-term research projects and destructure the purely commercial gallery-artist relationship, positioning itself in a growing artistic district between established galleries around Buenos Aires (Gio Marconi, Renata Fabbri, Raffaella Cortese) and younger spaces in Lambrate.