Tomorrow, Saturday 18 September, the packaging of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris will be inaugurated. Project that Christo and Jeanne-Claude caressed since the end of the 50s and that materializes in these days due to permits denied for a long time and last the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately neither Christo nor Jeanne-Claude will see the realization as they are both deceased.

On our website www.galleriaincontro.it/en/artisti-opere/christo are visible the works for sale of Christo

Christo's works are in the gallery for their direct vision

In the Corriere Economia of 6 September 2021 an interesting article focuses on the economic implications of Christo'sworks. The article is inspired by the imminent packaging of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, a project that was one of the first that Christo conceived together with his wife Jeanne Claude just met. It was 1958 and Christo's packaging projects appeared lunar even to insiders. The project therefore did not have the necessary permits to be realized. Finally after 60 years the project goes through but neither Christo,nor Jeanne Clau...

We have recently published some works by Mario Raciti. These works belong to the cycle of the"Gesti d'ignoto",which in fact cannot be defined as a "cycle" but rather of Raciti's attempts to find the way to his definitive philosophy of painting. These are all works dated back to the late 50s, when Raciti put aside his law degree to start his career as a painter.  In the brushstrokes, some marked, others rarefied, you can guess what will then be the natural outlet of Raciti's art.

These works by Mario Raciti are also for sale and can be seen ...

Recently we have published two remarkable works by Christo, one Mariani and one Simeti. Christo's two works are one the project of a wall of bins that was intended to block the road in front of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the other the project of the trees cover in the Beyeler Foundation in Switzerland. The first project was not carried out due to the opposition of the city authorities; the work is remarkable because it is a project of 1968 and as complete because it includes photos, map and colored enamel drawing of the bins. T...

On the insert "La Lettura" of this Sunday's Corriere della Sera is reproduced on full page a work by Alberto Biasi of the optical-dynamic cycle. Inside the insert there is a brief history of the artist. We want to dwell on the fact that sometimes there is confusion in defining the Biaisi technique by defining it kinetics. Biasi's works have nothing kinetic as they have no moving parts, but all the research is based on the perception that the viewer has of the work. Biasi defines some cycles as optical-dynamic. In truth of dynamic, in the phy...

In these days the fortieth anniversary of the "Orestiadi of Gibellina" occurs. The cultural fact was the rewriting of Eschilo's "Orestea", linking the ancient drama with the everyday life of the town of Gibellina razed to the ground by the earthquake of 1968. To this task was called Emilio Isgrò who invented a trilogy in three years kneading Italian with the Sicilian dialect. Thus were born the Agamènnuni of 1982, the Cuèfuri and Villa Eumènidi in the following two years.  It was therefore the origin of the theater festival that still takes ...

Visit to maestro Angelo Cagnone while working on his latest work.  This work finished will be white and bears some inscriptions. You notice a tile where Cagnone will apply an image that he has not yet chosen. In the photos you can see small-format works and another large-format one.

Works for sale by Angelo Cagnone can be seen on the site at the address www.galleriaincontro.it/en/artisti-opere/angelo-cagnone

In addition, the works of Angelo Cagnone are visible in the gallery during opening hours to the public

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Visit to the studio of Kazumasa Mizokami,an artist who represents a fantastic nature made of imaginary flowers with bright colors. Kazumasa hails from Arita in Japan which is a famous location in that country because of the pottery processing. Kazumasa's family is a family of potters, but Kazumasa stopped at a stage before pottery using terracotta as a plastic material. Terracotta is baked and then painted. Compared to ceramics, terracotta is a warm material that makes you feel the soul and breath of mother earth. The very intense bright col...

The Galleria d'Arte L'Incontro presents eleven leading artists from the Italian art scene, placing the attention on the diversity of the materials used. "Inerti" materials that take shape, life, acquire their own soul and personality in the hands of the great Masters, while conveying messages, sensations and emotions. So it is also interesting to read a work by the material of which it is composed, to think about the primary function of this material and the destination it has been given. They are very different materials but united by the c...

It is precisely the case to say "All crazys for Boetti and Griffa". In fact, the latest Italian and international auctions have confirmed the continuous growth of the quotations of these two artists. For Boetti, the unstoppable race of tapestrie prices continues, papers prices are still suffering with mixed results since the "calendars" have reached incredible prices, above 50,000 euros. The reflection is that the papers are to be bought given the really low awards and in light of the continuous growth in the prices of tapestries. When the p...

After the restrictions imposed by the measures to combat the spread of Covid 19, the great personal exhibition "Merveilles de l'inconnu" (Wonders of the Unknown) that the Lille Métropole Musée(LAM)dedicates to Giorgio Griffa is finally open to the public. The museum is located in the park of Villeneuve d'Ascq near the town of Lille, basically on the border with Belgium. This is a museum donated to this town by a wealthy local entrepreneur who in addition to building the building has transferred his rich art collection there.  Later the museu...

On our website we recently published three new works, one by Agostino Bonalumi, one by Roberto Crippa and another by Giorgio Griffa. They are three captivating works for their constructive solutions. Bonalumi's is a purple silk and the value of this solution, the coverage of the shaped paper with purple silk, is of great visual impact as silk enhances the protrusions, the"extroflexions",of the paper below accentuating the difference between the lights and shadows and also the shine of the silk generates glows that change color and position d...

Visit to the studio of Umberto Mariani to view his latest works and wish you a Happy Easter. Mariani has luded us with the latest productions, from small works of 30x20 cm to larger ones of 100x70 cm. The works are performed with lead foil, which the artist shapes in the way of folds of a dress or drapery, on which he then spreads several coats of color. Colors are generally primary colors with small variations created by Mariani himself.

On our website at the addresse  www.galleriaincontro.it/en/artisti-opere/umberto-mariani you can view t...

Turi Simeti died the day before yesterday, March 16, at the age of 91. With him goes one of the last protagonists of that fruitful period of Italian art that was that of the 60s; period that includes artists such as Castellani, Bonalumi,Manzoni, Fontana,Schifano, Boetti, Isgrò just to name a few. Sicilian of Alcamo, he emigrated to Rome in 1959 and then finally to Milan in 1965. In that year he participated in a memorable exhibition in Fontana's studio, called "Zero Avantgarde", with Manzoni, Dadamaino, Kusama, Haake, Bonalumi and others. Hi...

The National Gallery in Washington announces that it has acquired a tapestry by Alighiero Boetti, an untitled of 1988 measuring 112.5x104 cm. Remember that Boetti tapestries are the most looked for by the market, for this reason their prices are constantly growing. Our gallery has been dealing with Boetti for a long time and we are usually able to propose several works at the same time. But lately Boetti's tapestries have become rarefied, there is only one left that you can view on our site at www.galleriaincontro.it/en/artisti-opere/alighie...