Exhibitions

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  Sissi

  Trasguardi 7 Oct 2022 - 5 Feb 2023 Trasguardi is the title of Sissi's latest production, exhibited at Maggiore g.a.m. historical venue in Bologna, where a series of works made in mixed materials and crossed by cotton and polyester threads weaving and knotting are displayed. A white matt ceramic shell supports the weft, and framing the work it... Read more

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  Sissi | Blooming Tongue

  Around the globe at Maggiore g.a.m. in limited edition 10 Mar - 30 Sep 2022 "Blooming Tongue" (2020), the wearable sculpture made by Sissi, available in limited edition at Maggiore g.a.m. Read more

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  Bertozzi & Casoni and Giorgio Morandi

  Less is more 12 Feb - 31 May 2022 The main theme of the exhibition is the homage to Giorgio Morandi, presented both with a selection of "Flowers" and "Landscapes" by the Master, and with real "d'aprés Morandi" that the duo Bertozzi & Casoni have created, interpreting and filtering Morandi's lesson through ceramics. Read more

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  Antoni Clavé

  19 Sep 2020 - 15 Oct 2021 Antoni Clavé exhibits again at Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m. in Bologna. The Catalan artist's most significant works will guide the visitors through a generous and overflowing production. Read more

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  Vasco Bendini

  Historic works 16 Jan - 15 Apr 2020 Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m. offers to the public an occasion to rediscover the multiform production of Vasco Bendini. Starting with a selection of works from the Fifties of the Informalism movement, passing through the Sixties of Arte Povera, the exhibition follows the evolution of Bendini's research arriving to embrace Performance Art and keeping on the polimateric challenges of the following decades. Read more

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  Giorgio Morandi

  A family history 20 Dec 2018 - 16 Feb 2019 A considerable Giorgio Morandi retrospective celebrates the first forty years of Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m. founded by Franco and Roberta Calarota in 1978. The Morandi's exhibition features a selection of oils, watercolors, drawings and etchings from the famous still lives to the refined vases of flowers and the solitary landscapes. Read more

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  From Magritte to Warhol, from De Chirico to Sissi

  Le fil rouge of the contemporary art 13 Oct - 24 Dec 2018 Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m. presents in its historical venue in Bologna an exhibition of the greatest artists of XX and XXI centuries: Giorgio de Chirico, René Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Joan Mirò, Pablo Picasso, Arman, Andy Warhol, Georges Mathieu, Leoncillo Leonardi, Roberto Sebastian Matta, Sissi, Mattia Moreni, Antoni Clavè, Pablo Echaurren and Pirro Cuniberti. A particular attention will be given to Giorgio Morandi. Read more

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  Roberto Sebastian Matta

  Forms of dream 5 May - 29 Sep 2018 Roberto Sebastian Matta returns to Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m. with a new show in its venue in Bologna. The paintings, the mixed media and the sculptures made in bronze selected by Franco and Roberta Calarota give a complete portrait of an artist who influenced the Surrealism and the American Abstract Expressionism. Read more

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  Zoran Mušič

  18 Nov 2017 - 15 Jan 2018 The exhibition traces Zoran Music's research through a rich and considerable group of forty works. These pieces are significant examples of the variety of painting cycles that have made Music an internationally recognized artist Read more

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  Tong Yanrunan and Giorgio Morandi

  Forms of time 4 Jun - 2 Sep 2017 The exhibition represents a new and important stage in the project that Tong Yanrunan has been dedicating to the tradition of portrait for 19 years. Read more

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  Robert Motherwell

  26 Jan - 29 Apr 2017 The exhibition offers the rare opportunity in Italy to admire the work of Robert Motherwell, a cultured and refined artist who gave one of the most original interpretations of the great season of the American Abstract Expressionism. Read more

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  Sissi

  Bone motifs 19 Nov 2016 - 29 Jan 2017 Galleria d'Arte Maggiore G.A.M. offers for the first time a solo exhibition by Sissi: a great installation, a landscape of osseous germinations including new ceramic works, never exhibited before and especially created for this occasion but originated during her last performance: "L'imbandita", presented in Bologna during the last edition of Artefiera. Read more

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  Mattia Moreni

  Ah! quel Freud... 8 Oct - 12 Nov 2016 G.A.M. Archivio Mattia Moreni presents an exhibition of Mattia Moreni who lived as a protagonist some of the most important turning points of the last century, from the Informal Art, to the Neo-expressionism to reach, at last, a completely personal style in a surprising and continuous expressive reinvention. Read more

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  Robert Indiana

  One through Zero 23 Jan - 31 Mar 2016 The exhibition about Robert Indiana includes the famous sculpture LOVE, presented in different variations, together with other important pieces such as AMOR and ONE THROUGH ZERO, the artistic series of numbers. Read more

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  Andy Warhol

  24 Oct - 31 Dec 2015 The Andy Warhol exhibition - curated by Franco and Roberta Calarota and strongly promoted by their daughter Alessia, current director of the Gallery - is a tribute to the rich artistic path of a great master from American Pop Art, who was able to have a permanent impact not only on art but also on contemporary music, cinema and fashion. Read more

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  Ettore Spalletti and Giorgio Morandi

  A dialogue of light 25 Oct 2014 - 31 Jan 2015 The works by the XX Century italian master Giorgio Morandi are source of study and inspiration for the most important contemporary artists, like Ettore Spalletti, protagonist today of three important solo exhibitions at MAXXI in Rome, at GAM in Turin and at MADRE in Naples. Read more

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  Italian Earth

  Paladino, Leoncillo, Chia, Matta 18 Jan - 1 Apr 2014 The exhibition explores in a diverse but organized way the theme of "Earth". The artists selected to illustrate this intriguing play of cross-references are: Mimmo Paladino, Leoncillo, Sandro Chia, Roberto Sebastian Matta Read more

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  Sam Francis

  Freedom of color 2 Feb - 31 May 2013 Born in California in 1923, the real beginning of Sam Francis' career can be placed in Paris in the Fifties. The light colors of Monet and Matisse are the sparks that make his style develop from his early monochromatic works to paintings with striking colors dominated by abstract, airy forms... Read more

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  Giorgio Morandi and Giorgio de Chirico

  Poetry and mystery meet each other 3 Oct 2009 - 15 Feb 2010 Giorgio Morandi and Giorgio de Chirico, Poetry and mystery meet each other. Read more

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  Graham Sutherland

  Oils, watercolors and graphics 19 Jan - 31 Mar 2008 Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m. displays a selection of works by Graham Sutherland, in order to present the activity of the artist as engraver and graphic artist, focusing on oil and watercolor production and on the famous series of etchings dedicated to bees. Read more

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  Metafisico primo Il Grande Giorgio de Chirico and some painter friends

  Soffici, De Pisis, Carrà, Morandi, Rosai 8 Jan - 15 May 2004 In this exhibition, the personality of Giorgio de Chirico is examined including the pictorial views of Soffici, De Pisis, Carrà, Morandi, Rosai - some colleagues that he estimated and about whom he wrote. Read more

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  Allen Jones

  Believe it or not 1 Nov 2002 - 31 Jan 2003 The second solo show at Maggiore g.a.m. in the historical venue of the gallery in Bologna. In the same time the gallery has produced and organized another exhibition of Allen Jones at Palazzo dei Sette in Orvieto. Read more

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  Leoncillo

  31 Oct 2001 - 30 Dec 2002 Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m. displays an accurate selection of sculptures and works on paper that illustrate Leoncillo's artistic activity from 1938 until the second half of the 1960s. Read more

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  Mel Ramos

  1 Apr - 30 Jun 2001 Pop Art artist from California. Ramos most famous artworks are surely from the pin-ups series, provocative feminine nudes painted by the artist following the advertising's and illustration's graphic ways of the newspapers during the Fifties and Sixties. Ramos celebrates a feminine ideal intertwining mythological figures and beauties of our time. They are figures in between parody and the desacralization of the collective imaginary, and they use classical quotation to analyze with critical clarity the history of feminine myth, of ideal beauty and of the perfection of form. Read more

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  Fausto Melotti

  4 - 30 Jun 1999 Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m. presents sculptures and works on paper by Fausto Melotti, a master of abstraction and of harmonic organization of space. Read more

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  Reality between objectivity, metaphysics and abstraction: a journey through art between Modern and Contemporary

  18 Sep - 20 Nov 1998 A group show focused on the reflection over matter and reality with selected paintings and sculptures by Lucio Fontana, Leoncillo Leonardi, Franz Kline, Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, Giacomo Balla, Allen Jones, Arnaldo Pomodoro. Read more

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  Arman

  3 - 30 Nov 1995 A personal exhibition of a series of ceramic works that the master of Nouveau Réalisme has created for the occasion. Through its "accumulation" Arman investigates the mythology of seriality and the trivialization of taste. Read more

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  Gino Severini

  The rule, the mask, the sacred 1 Sep - 28 Nov 1993 Gino Severini, Futurism, Cubism, Surrealism, modern art, contemporary art, history of art, novecento, Montegufoni, castle, Giotto, Botticelli, Commedia dell'arte, Italian art, art, exhibition, Bologna, primavera, spring, painting, Uffizi Read more