Exhibitions

By Year

Antoni Clavé
19 Sep 2020 - 30 Jan 2021 A man constantly looking for lost values, without loosing connection with the memories of his mother country, Spain, Antoni Clavé returns to Franco and Roberta Calarota's Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m., now directed by their daughter Alessia, with a great anthological exhibition that reveals him, once again, as one of the... Read more

Vasco Bendini
Historic works 16 Jan - 15 Apr 2020 Vasco Bendini (Bologna 1922 - Rome 2015) is the protagonist of an artistic journey that sees him as a precursor. It's a non-linear itinerary, hiding its own secret consistency underneath the level of an immediate perceptiveness, frequently going to investigate the presence of images that reveal themselves throughout an insatiable... Read more

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

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

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

Leoncillo
27 Jan - 30 Apr 2018 Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m. shows some unquestionable masterpieces by Leoncillo, such as the extraordinary sculpture "Amanti Antichi / Ancient Lovers" from 1965. The Gallery is also the headquarter of the Leoncillo Archive. Read more

Zoran Music
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pablo Echaurren
Volo Solo 5 Nov 2004 - 5 Feb 2005 «Riempire la superficie senza lasciare un frammento di spazio libero è la mia cifra distintiva; impulsiva, compulsiva, automatica», con queste parole Echaurren ci introduce alla propria opera, caratterizzata sin dagli esordi da un impulso catalogatore, che nei suoi primi lavori si manifesta nella resa minuscola, nell'incasellare in griglie di piccoli... Read more

Metafisico primo Il Grande Giorgio de Chirico and some painter friends
Soffici, De Pisis, Carrà, Morandi, Rosai 8 Jan - 15 May 2004 Read more

Allen Jones
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

Leoncillo
31 Oct 2001 Born in Spoleto in 1915, Leoncillo's artistic career has already started to achieve success from the Forties,when he takes part to the VII Triennale in Milan, invited by Gio Ponti, and when, in 1947, he signed the manifesto of the Nuova Secessione Artistica Italiana (New Italian Artistic Secession), then turned... Read more

Mel Ramos
1 Apr - 30 Jun 2001 «In Bologna, at Galleria d'Arte Maggiore, until June 30th twenty-five works by Mel Ramos are being exhibited (catalogue realized by the Gallery) by the 65-years-old, world wide famous, Pop Art artist from California. Ramos most famous artworks are surely from the pin-ups series, provocative feminine nudes painted by the artist... Read more

Gino Severini. The rule, the mask, the sacred | La regola, la maschera, il sacro
1 Sep 1993 - 31 Jan 1994 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