Pittori d'Italia: 12 Italian Painters at Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan

The exhibition 'Pittori d'Italia' at Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea in Milan, curated by Ivan Quaroni, runs until July 19, 2024. It features 12 Italian artists working across figuration and abstraction: 108 (Guido Bisagni, 1978), Nicola Caredda (1981), El Gato Chimney (1981), Jacopo Ginanneschi (1987), Agnese Guido (1982), Dario Maglionico (1986), Fulvia Mendini (1966), Riccardo Nannini (1980), Silvia Negrini (1982), Silvia Paci (1990), Paolo Pibi (1987), and Melania Toma (1996). The show aims to present a diverse range of contemporary Italian painting styles, reflecting the medium's renewed relevance in galleries and institutional surveys. Quaroni notes that the selected artists come from various Italian regions, with some having lived abroad, emphasizing that an 'Italian genome' in painting is hybrid and contaminated rather than tied to a specific genius loci. The exhibition title references Ennio Flaiano's paradox about the blurred line between truth and falsehood.