Studio d 'Arte Raffaelli is pleased to present the new group exhibition "Works on Paper" set up in the spaces of the gallery located in Via Livio Marchetti in Trento from May to September 2025. With a total of 19 artists, Italian and international, the exhibition offers a wide-ranging look at interpreters who have made the history of contemporary art.
As the title suggests, the exhibition consists of a collection of works on paper that offers the public numerous works by Italian and international interpreters.
The first room houses artists such as Marlene Dumas, Gilberto Zorio, Robert Longo, Donald Baechler, Malcolm Morley and Ross Bleckner.
The entrance to the second room is anticipated by a work by the American Brian Belott, protagonist in 2021 of the exhibition The Reassembler, hosted by Cellar Contemporary.
Sandro Chia, Tano Festa, Peter Schuyff, Ronnie Cutrone, James Brown and Philip Taaffe, together with Belott himself, set up this second wing of the gallery, dedicated to the theme of "red".
In Tano Festa's work, in particular, the chromatic element plays a central role, marking a specific phase of his artistic activity: since the 1960s, in fact, the artist has preferred the colour red in his monochrome paintings, evoking both the organic matter of blood and the light used in the darkroom.
In the atrium that anticipates the basement we find Angelo Maisto, a refined watercolorist and skilled bricoleur, engaged for years in the creation of what the art critic Valerio Dehò has baptized as Codex Maisti.
Continuing in the latter setting, Gianmarco Montesano and Jenny Watson — the latter pays homage to the city of Trento with a direct quote — are joined by Jan Knap's watercolour, Nanni Balestrini's mixed technique and Jiri Georg Dokoupil's delicate drawing on paper.
In this new exhibition with a heterogeneous taste, which can be visited until September, Studio d 'Arte Raffaelli offers a wide-ranging look at the different sensibilities of nineteen artists who have marked the history of contemporary art.
