The Redemption of Historical Vanguards

Culture, exchange of opinions, meetings and training activities. These are the ingredients that inspired work on the reopening of the Galleria Milano Foundation, a private nonprofit organization. "A double purpose," comments a note, "the protection and enhancement of the artistic and cultural heritage of the historic Galleria Milano and the promotion of contemporary research, national and international, through exhibitions, moments of meeting and in-depth analysis, as well as educational and training activities".
Inaugural exhibition Alexander and Sasha Brodsky. Opening Monday, March 18, 2024, from 6 to 9 p.m. Via Arcivescovo Romilli 7, Milan.  Duration of the exhibition: Thursday, March 21 to Saturday, June 8, 2024. Opening hours: Thursday through Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. or by appointment.
Almost two years after its closure, the Galleria Milano Foundation, thanks to the will of Nicola Pellegrini together with Bianca Trevisan and Giovanni Oberti, collects this extensive legacy, proposing itself as a point of reference for cultural production and research. The link with the city of Milan and its territory remains strong, engaging in a constructive dialogue with institutions, thanks to the comparison with museums, other cultural realities, universities and Academies of Fine Arts.
"The Foundation has its roots in the Galleria Milano, among the longest-standing modern and contemporary art galleries in the country.   A first opening took place at the behest of Enrico Somarè in 1928, an experience that ended, after troubled events, within a decade due to the outbreak of the war. In 1964 it was reopened in Via della Spiga and was the beginning of a long adventure under the direction, from 1965 to 2019, of Carla Pellegrini Rocca. The gallerist made courageous and far-sighted choices, being among the first to exhibit in Italy English Pop Art, Viennese Actionism, the Japanese Gutai group, then-emerging German artists including Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys and Blinky Palermo, but also little-known U.S. authors at the time such as Ed Ruscha, Fred Sandback, Bob Graham, Kenneth Price, Joe Goode," they explain from the Foundation. Through the more than three hundred and fifty exhibitions held first in via della Spiga, then in the aristocratic palace on via Manin/via Turati, the gallery's headquarters from 1973 to 2022, exhibitions were dedicated to the lesser-known aspects of the Historic Avant-Garde and Abstraction, and decades-long partnerships were forged with Vincenzo Agnetti, Gianfranco Baruchello, Valentina Berardinone, Antonio Calderara, Vincenzo Ferrari, Enzo Mari, Davide Mosconi, Grazia Varisco, and Luigi Veronesi, among others.