From October 7, 2025 to January 11, 2026, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, in collaboration with Banca Ifis, presents the exhibition CEROLI TOTAL, a monographic exhibition dedicated to Mario Ceroli (Castel Frentano, 1938). Curated by Renata Cristina Mazzantini, director of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, the exhibition retraces seventy years of the sculptor's research through a selection of twenty works including sculptures and installations from the collections of GNAMC, Banca Ifis, and the artist.

As part of the Artist at GNAMC initiative, Ceroli will be the protagonist of 2025. The program of "artists in residence", or visiting artists, conceived with the formula "one year, one artist, one room", will involve the master in a series of encounters with the public, scholars, as well as students from the Academies and faculties of Valle Giulia, allowing especially young people to directly delve into the artist's work. For the Artist at GNAMC initiative, Ceroli has created two site-specific works titled The Great Oak and The Ashes.

The exhibition presents, in 10 rooms of the museum, a selection of the artist's masterpieces such as La Cina (1966), Primavera (1968), Balcone (1966), Progetto per la pace (1969), La battaglia (1978), alongside works never exhibited before, including Sesto senso (1999), Le chiacchiere (1989), Tela di Penelope (1992), and Arpa birmana (1992).

The exhibition is designed to offer a staging of Ceroli's theater, where each work is cast by the artist as a character summoned to "interpret" a new role, in a constant search for contemporaneity. Many of the complex sculptures occupy the assigned space so that the viewer can immerse themselves and participate, as if transported to an artificial elsewhere.