ANNEMARIE
VERNA
GALLERY

CONTRASTES

October 9 to December 19, 2025
Antonio Calderara, Giorgio Griffa, Sol LeWitt, Giulio Paolini, Verena Loewensberg, Alighiero Boetti

CONTRASTES

The gallery's connection to Italy and avant-garde artists from Milan, Turin and Rome was extremely important, particularly during its early years in the 1960s and -70s. During this period, a new understanding of art emerged in Europe and America, breaking with existing artistic concepts and aesthetic conventions. While conceptual art was often criticised for being reduced, cold and cerebral, it found a poetic, sensual and life-affirming expression in Italy. The current exhibition, CONTRASTES, demonstrates this in a compelling way. It brings together three artists: Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994), Giorgio Griffa (born 1936), and Giulio Paolini (born 1940).

The gallery has a long and intense history with these artists. Regular visits to galleries and studios in Milan and Turin shaped the 1970s, as did the intense summer days spent in Spoleto with many Italian avant-garde artists. The gallery exhibited Alighiero Boetti (later Alighiero e Boetti) and Giorgio Griffa in the group exhibition "Objects, Projects, Plans – Conceptual Art from Italy" in 1972. This was followed by solo exhibitions with Alighiero Boetti in 1974, 1977 and 1982, and with Giorgio Griffa in 1973, 1975, 1978, 1981 and 2017. The gallery's collaboration with Giulio Paolini continues to this day, and it has shown his works in nine solo exhibitions since 1973.

Throughout the exhibition, the three Italian artists are joined by friends and guests connected to them in life or in spirit. It opens with works by:
Antonio Calderara (1903–1978),
Sol LeWitt (1928–2007), and
Verena Loewensberg (1912–1986).

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Installation views

Antonio Calderara, Giorgio Griffa, Sol LeWitt, Giulio Paolini, Verena Loewensberg, Alighiero Boetti, CONTRASTES

Installation view room 4

Showcase office room

Installation view room 1

Installation view room 2

Installation view room 3

Installation view room 4

Works

Antonio Calderara
Senza titolo
1973
27 x 27 cm
oil on wood panel

Giorgio Griffa
o.T.
1975
150 x 260 cm
acrylic on linen

Giorgio Griffa
o.T.
1979
60 x 61 cm
acrylic on canvas

Giorgio Griffa
o.T.
1974
70 x 53.5 cm
acrylic on canvas

Sol LeWitt
Irregular lines vertically superimposed
1993
76 x 56.5 cm
gouache on paper

Giulio Paolini
Les herbes folles
2010
100 x 60 cm
pencil and collage on paper, Plexiglas, collage on wall

Giulio Paolini
Ni le soleil ni la mort
1993
64 x 48 cm
collage on paper

Giulio Paolini
Studie zu „Cariatide“
1979
50 x 70 cm
Collage on paper

Giulio Paolini
Senza Titolo
1979
38 x 76 cm
pencil and collage on paper

Giulio Paolini
Il modello del tempio / Il tempio del modello
1986
49.5 x 104.5 cm
lithograph on paper

Verena Loewensberg
ohne Titel
1976
70 x 100 cm
oil on canvas

Alighiero Boetti
Da uno a dieci
1980
37.6 x 56 cm
ink and pecil on paper
10 parts

Alighiero Boetti
Insicuro Noncurante
1966 1975
55 x 44.7 cm
portfolio of 81 numbered mix media works
ed. HC III

New

Gallerynote 3/2025

Exhibition

CONTRASTES
October 9 to December 19, 2025

New publications

Richard Tuttle
Complete Interviews 1970–2022
Edited and with a Preface Interview by Dieter Schwarz

Glen Rubsamen
The Petrified Forest
Publisher: Glen Rubsamen

Exhibitions | Insight

INSIGHT #3 spotlights the graphic work of Fred Sandback through three examples from 1974 and 1982.

Antonio Calderara Riti di passaggio. Dalla figurazione all'arte concreta, Fondazione Marcello Morandini, Varese, through April 26, 2026

Dan Flavin | Donald Judd | Sol LeWitt | Agnes Martin
Minimal, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris
October 8, 2025 to January 18, 2026

Robert Wilson | Mother, MAXXI, Rome, through January 18, 2026

Jerry Zeniuk | Il colore, Museo Mirad'Or and Chiesa di Santa Maria della Neve , Pisogne, through February 15, 2026

Marisa Merz & Mario Merz | Eccoci qui ancora una volta, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Praga, Prague, through February 21, 2026

Fred Sandback Cuts into Spaces (group show), Hall Art Foundation, Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, ongoing
Sculpture, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, October 12, 2025 to July 2026

Giulio Paolini
A.R.S. Scaenica, permanent installation, Teatro Franco Parenti, Milan
Roma nel mondo (group show), MAXXI, Rome, December 17, 2025 to April 6, 2026

Richard Tuttle | Giulio Paolini | Marisa Merz | Mario Merz
Long Story Short, Museum Brandhorst, München, bis Januar 2027

Sol LeWitt (1928–2007)
A Wall Drawing Retrospective
Yale University Art Gallery and Williams College Museum of Art
November 16, 2008 – 2033

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