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Giuseppe Bergomi
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Giuseppe Bergomi:

Sculptures 1982 / 2024

From 12 July to 1 December 2024

Museum of the Risorgimento Lioness of Italy

Museum of the Risorgimento Lioness of Italy

Via del Castello, 9, Brescia

Closed today: open tomorrow at 10:00

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The exhibition spread between the Museum of Santa Giulia and the Castle pays tribute to one of the greatest exponents of contemporary figurative sculpture, through 84 works that trace the entire career of the artist from Brescia. The path, ordered chronologically, starts from 1978, the year in which Bergomi made his debut at the Galleria dell'Incisione in Brescia with an exhibition of only paintings, one of which, Family Portrait, also opens the current exhibition. The event, fundamental for his career, convinced him to leave painting for the third dimension. In 1982, still at the Galleria dell'Incisione, Bergomi held a solo exhibition with the first polychrome terracottas, from which, given the presence of his wife Alma as a model, the importance of the biographical in the artist's production is already evident. The exhibition continues with sculptures such as Sleeping Bather (1991) and Large Nude of an Adolescent (1991), emblematic works of the phase in which, between the late eighties and the early nineties of the last century, Bergomi's terracottas abandoned color, rather recalling ancient sculptural tradition, especially Etruscan. From the 2000s, Bergomi moved from terracotta to bronze, giving life to a new phase of his work in which color, although on a new material support, returns to be a defining element. Among the exemplary works are Interior of a Bathroom with a Female Figure (2001), Self-Portrait (2004). Among the creations stands out the grandiose Ellipse, set up in the outdoor spaces of the Museum of Santa Giulia, in a suggestive dialogue between the volumes and architectures of the monastery. The exhibition continues with the most recent sculptures, when Bergomi accepts the challenge of confronting public statuary through works such as Men, Dolphins, Parallelepipeds created in 2000 for the Nagoya aquarium in Japan or the monument dedicated to Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso, the first public sculpture ever dedicated to a woman in Milan. The exhibition is ideally closed by the magnificent Africa with Cello, exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2011, and the unpublished work Breakfast in Bed (2024) which, through the depiction of his wife, daughters, and granddaughters, pays tribute to three generations of his family.
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Via del Castello, 9, Brescia, Italy

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monday Closed now
tuesday 10:00 - 18:00
wednesday 10:00 - 18:00
thursday 10:00 - 18:00
friday 10:00 - 18:00
saturday 10:00 - 18:00
sunday 10:00 - 18:00

Last entry 5.15pm

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