1. Art and Diseño

Io e Plinio, il saluto
Vincenzo Agnetti - Franco Angeli - Enrico Baj - Ennio Calabria - Tommaso Cascella
Tano Festa - Franco Fontana - Sergio Lombardo - Robert Mapplethorpe - Sebastián Matta
Gastone Novelli - Achille Perilli - Gerhard Richter - Mimmo Rotella - Mario Schifano - Ugo Sterpini
Mario Schifano
Robert Mapplethorpe
Franco Angeli
Mario Schifano
ART HOUSE
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Sergio Lombardo - “Il Saluto (Io e Plinio)” - 1962
Water based vinyl on canvas
Courtesy of Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia
ART HOUSE
Bagno Vignoni
Piazza Moretto, 40
1 February - 30 March 2015
Enrico Baj
Sergio Lombardo
Plinio De Martiis photographed by Alberto Burri
Mimmo Rotella
Tano Festa
Franco Angeli
Plinio de Martiis died on the 2nd of July 2004 in his home in Bagno Vignoni.
a group show open to enthusiastic collectors and visitors, announcing a come-
He was the most brilliant and intuitive Italian post-war art dealer:
back, the return of Great Art.
600 exhibitions from Honoré Daumier on the 25th February 1954, to his final
Its organisers are rooted in art and in this territory.
show of Franco Piruco on the 9th March 1984.
As hinted in Silvia Pegoraro’s catalogues for the shows in Pescara (2007) and
The Tartaruga Artists became key players of the contemporary scene.
Rome (2014), Io e Plinio makes a first selection of paintings largely belonging
De Martiis’ method of selection was both interdisciplinary and experimental.
to the artists’ heirs.
The great exponents of the 20th century brought their art to Rome, home of
Art House also dedicates a space to design, fashion and theatre, experimen-
great cinema and fashion, worldwide leader of style and elegance.
ting with influences of sound art (Luciano Berio was an assiduous visitor of
Plinio’s legacy lives to this day in the stories of many of Bagno Vignoni’s inha-
Plinio’s gallery).
bitants and has led to the creation of Art House, a permanent exhibition space.
In these harsh times, we should draw from the tenacity, vision and the mental
Sergio Lombardo’s visual metaphor expresses the concept of our cultural
and cultural goldmine of Plinio de Martiis.
project and of the first exhibition: Io e Plinio, il saluto,
Mario Pissacroia
Ennio Calabria