Clara Bonfiglio and Maurizio Arcangeli in Dialogue at Mangano Galleria d’Arte, Cremona

Mangano Galleria d’Arte in Cremona opens its exhibition season with 'RiSorridimi', a two-person show pairing Clara Bonfiglio and Maurizio Arcangeli. Curated by Gianluca Mangano, the exhibition runs from February 14 to May 9, 2026. Both artists were born in 1959 and emerged in the Italian art scene of the 1980s, renewing visual languages through a synthesis of memory, concept, and image. Arcangeli is associated with Medialismo Analitico, Bonfiglio with Nuovo Futurismo. The show highlights their complementary approaches: Arcangeli focuses on punctuation marks as physical presences, exemplified by 'Piatto unico?', while Bonfiglio presents urban objects like 'Ti sorrido' and installations such as 'Solisstatio' that critique mass media, fashion, and spectacle. The exhibition traces their careers through historical and recent works, emphasizing a shared tension toward contemporaneity. Critic Renato Barilli contextualizes their practice within a moment when Arte Povera's environmentalism and revivalist citation movements converged. The gallery positions itself as a reference for contemporary art in Cremona, valorizing Italian artists who shaped recent decades.