Carlo Maria Mariani. The Eternity of Painting

The exhibition is the first major posthumous retrospective of the artist and traces the full arc of his output, from his earliest works of the 1940s to pieces made in 2019.
 

Curated by Eike Schmidt, Clayton Calvert

The exhibition brings together around seventy works – paintings and large-scale cartoons – making it possible to follow the evolution of a singular path that moves across conceptual neoclassicism, hyperrealism, abstraction and metaphysical painting, always guided by intellectual consistency and profound cultural depth.

Carlo Maria Mariani occupies a place of extraordinary significance in the artistic and cultural landscape of his time. His practice, deeply rooted in the study of theoretical, literary and philosophical texts, finds expression in a painting in which memory, beauty and perception interweave through an approach at once rigorous and conceptually innovative. The exhibition brings together works from major Italian and international collections, offering the rare opportunity for a direct encounter between pieces held in different museum institutions.