Il Polittico was founded in 1990. It is located in Rome, via dei Banchi Vecchi, at number 135.
The show debut was held in May 1991 with an exhibition of drawings by the composer Sylvano Bussotti, that documented a creative path, parallel to the musical one, from the end of the Forties to the Nineties.
Ever since Il Polittico realized numerous exhibitions, between personal and collective, presenting, among others, artists of talent such as Alberto Abate, Rosetta Acerbi, Giovanni Arcangeli, Luciano Bartolini, Ubaldo Bartolini, Angelo Bellobono, Giuseppe Bergomi, Carlo Bertocci, Giuseppe Biagi, Andrea Boldrini, Lorenzo Bonechi, Aurelio Bulzatti, Sergio Ceccotti, Elvio Chiricozzi, Eleonora Ciroli, Silvia Codignola, Marco Cornini, Luca Crocicchi, Silvano D'Ambrosio, Franco de Courten, Emilio D'Elia, Paolo dell'Aquila, Aron Demetz, Stefano Di Stasio, Angelo Fabbri, Stefania Fabrizi, Mario Fani, Paolo Fiorentino, Lino Frongia, Paola Gandolfi, Massimo Livadiotti, Elio Marchegiani, Tito Marci, Salvatore Marrone, Nicola Maria Martino, Stefania Mileto, Alberto Mingotti, Gian Marco Montesano, Fabrizio Passarella, Massimo Pedrazzi, Marco Petrus, Simone Piccioni, Luca Pignatelli, Franco Piruca, Salvatore Pulvirenti, Mauro Reggio, Lithian Ricci, Salvo Russo, Livio Scarpella, Paolo Schmidlin, Gianni Stefanon, Giuseppe Tirelli, Giorgio Tonelli, Luciano Ventrone, Angela Volpi, Giovanni Zoda, Fernando Zucchi, among the Italian ones; Hermann Albert, Pedro Cano, Juanjo Castillo, Thomas Corey, Ramon Enrich, Juan Escauriaza, Carlos Forns Bada, Alberto Gálvez, Sean Henry, Harry Holland, Leander Kaiser, Ana Kapor, Anna Keen, John Kirby, Jan Knap, Miguel Ángel Iglesias, Jesús Mari Lazkano, David Ligare, Edward Lucie-Smith, Sigfrido Martín Begué, Stephen McKenna, Klaus Karl Mehrkens, Franz Mölk, Ulf Nilsen, Philip Pearlstein, Lily Salvo, Alicia Sancha, Erhard Stöbe, Renny Tait, Dino Valls, among foreigners. In addition, is particularly important the attention that Il Polittico reserves to the work of young and very young artists, to their beginnings or to their first significant exhibitions. Moreover, a lot of interest was aroused by the exhibition of the illustrator and drawer Ettore Viola, entirely dedicated to Il Gattopardo, between Tomasi di Lampedusa and Luchino Visconti, and accompanied by a catalogue published by Sellerio Edition in Palermo.
The Association is interested primarily, if not exclusively, in the current painting of image and figure, in every possible lexical and pictorial declination. Recently, then, Il Polittico has extended its exhibition interests also to the most recent sculpture of image. As for painting, II Polittico has followed particularly the artists that, during the Eighties, have been part of theoretical names such as Pittura Colta and Anacronismo.
On these names the historical process is already largely underway, proof of this are the mentions in prestigious and influential publications such as the Encyclopedia of Pittura in Italia, published by Electa; the fourth volume of Arte Contemporanea, La linea del modello - Arte come progetto del mondo edited by Giunti; ArToday, published by Phaidon, Movements in Art since 1945, published by Thames & Hudson, Flora, published by Taschen, Art Tomorrow, published by Terrail, all of four cured by Edward Lucie-Smith, and many others dictionaries and books of contemporary art. |