L’ARIETE artecontemporanea

Massimo Pulini (1958) lives and works in Montiano (I). Artist and art historian, professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, he was Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Rimini. For more than three decades he has been carrying out an intense artistic activity, which has led him to set up personal exhibitions in important Italian and European museums. In 2000, invited by Maurizio Calvesi, he set up his own installation in the exhibition on the Italian Novecento at the Scuderie del Quirinale. As a historian, he has written numerous essays on Italian painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and curated museum exhibitions such as the monographs of Guercino (Milan Rome London 2003 - 2005) and Sassoferrato (Cesena 2009). He was responsible for important discoveries and new attributions of works by important artists (Lorenzo Lotto, Annibale and Ludovico Carracci, Caravaggio, Guercino, Alessandro Turchi, Guido Reni, Simone Cantarini, Guido Cagnacci). He has published four volumes in the collection 'The blanket of time' (2008) and the theatrical monologue 'Caravaggio, black smoke' (2010).

Vanni Spazzoli (1940) has been present on the art scene since the end of the 1960s. To the solid figurative training the artist soon linked a purely pictorial tension based on the value of the material and on the gestural pregnancy of the image in a research appreciated at national and European level (Germany, Holland, Belgium, Spain, France). Selected exhibitions: 1995 'Ver Sacrum' Oratory of San Sebastiano Forlì curated by Valerio Dehò | 1998 Pescherie della Rocca | 2001 'Novecento in Romagna' Cesena curated by Claudio Spadoni | 2003 'Fears' anthological Museum S.Rocco Fusignano | 2009 Prize 'Marina di Ravenna' MAR City Art Museum Ravenna at the invitation of Claudio Spadoni | 2008 and 2010 Biennale Roncaglia S. Felice sul Panaro | 2011 'Store of memory' L'Ariete artecontemporanea Bologna curated by Eleonora Frattarolo and Claudio Spadoni | 2014 'Inner patterns' text by Marco Dalpane | 2013' Vanni Spazzoli. New and old stories' Antichi Magazzini del Sale Cervia anthology by Claudio Spadoni | 2014 and 2016 'Artistic site' MirMar San Mauro Pascoli | 2015 'Squares' Palazzo Machirelli Dal Pozzo Imola | 2015' Vanni Spazzoli 'Civic Gallery Faro Arte Marina di Ravenna with the patronage of the Emilia Romagna Region and the Province of Ravenna | 2016 'Music talk' Museo della Musica Bologna presentation of the covers of the record label 'A simple lunch' dedicated to his works by Marco Dalpane | 2018 'Abstractions' L'Ariete artecontemporanea curated by Eleonora Frattarolo | 2018 'The drawing of dust' Biennale del Disegno Rimini at the invitation of Eleonora Frattarolo | 2019 'Interconnections' Spazio Fabrizio Cocchi Bologna curated by Eli Sassoli de' Bianchi | 2020 'Child abuse' film art exhibition contemporary curated by Eleonora Frattarolo as part of the European ProChild Project. With L’Ariete artecontemporanea he was present in Arte Fiera Bologna, Art Verona, MiArt Milano, Art Karlsruhe (D). His works are in Italian and international collections.

Nicola Samorì (1977) lives and works in Bagnacavallo (I). He graduated in 2004 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Painter and sculptor, in his path the attempt to endanger forms derived from the history of Western culture is highlighted: in them the opening of the represented body and the pictorial surface show themselves without interruption and one gets the impression that the birth of a new work always involves the sacrifice of an old one. Starting from 2010, the first pigment scratches appear in his works. The following year his first solo show was held in a museum: Fegefeuer, Kunsthalle, Tübingen. In 2014 there were one-man and group exhibitions at the Schauwerk in Sindelfingen, at the MAC in Lissone, at the Kunsthalle in Kiel and in the Palladian basements of Palazzo Chiericati in Vicenza. The following year he was selected to participate in the 56th Venice Biennale, and included in the Code Italia exhibition project curated by Vincenzo Trione. Also in 2015, the TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin dedicated an extensive monographic to him entitled Religo. In 2016, participation in the 16th National Quadrennial of Art in Rome and in Gare de l'Est, Anatomical Theater of Padua. In 2017 he participated in the collective Art in Art at the MOCAK in Krakow and two monographs took place at the Centro Arti Visive Pescheria in Pesaro and at the Neue Galerie in Gladbeck. Between 2017 and 2018 he took part in The New Frontiers of Painting exhibition at the Stelline Foundation in Milan, where he returns in the spring of 2019 on the occasion of the exhibition The Last Supper after Leonardo. At the end of 2019 he held the personal Cannibal Trail, at the Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Caotun (Nantou, Taiwan), the first in Asia; at the beginning of 2020 he set up the Black Square project in Naples, at the Made in Cloister Foundation and the Archaeological Museum. In November he opens a solo show at the Mart Museum in Rovereto dedicated to the figure of Saint Lucia, one of the guiding images of the last years of her work. From 2021 the anthological 'Scars' in the Palazzo Fava headquarters in Bologna curated by Alberto Zanchetta and Chiara Stefani.

Maurizio Bottarelli (1943) lives and works in Bologna (I). He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna in 1965. Since 1969 he has taught painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and at the Academy of Brera in Milan. He stayed in London in 1971/72 and in 1975/76, thanks to a scholarship from the British Council, he taught at Brighton Polytechnic and Goldsmith College of Art. In 1992 he was in Austria at the invitation of the Atelier Der Stadt im Salzburger Künstlerhaus. In the autumn of 1996, the E.A.P. (Education Abroad Program) invites him for a series of meetings at the University of California, where in the summer of 1998 he teaches Painting at the U.C.S.B. Santa Barbara. In 2000 he was invited by Monash University in Australia, as Artist in Residence. In 2004 he was invited by the Art Practice Department of the University of Berkeley and held, with the collaboration of the Italian Studies of the UCB, a lecture on his work at the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco. Since November 2005 he is Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Department of Fine Arts at Monash University in Melbourne. He was invited in 2006/2007 to hold a personal exhibition on the theme of the relationship between landscape and music at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Since the early sixties he has been present on the Italian and foreign art scene with personal and group exhibitions in galleries and institutional locations. In 2018 the Volponi plate was delivered to him in Bologna. In 2020 he donated his collection of art books of over 2500 volumes to the Leoni Library of the municipality of Fidenza. His works are in numerous public and private collections.

Luca Lanzi (1977) lives and works in Bologna. He studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and worked for a year in the laboratories of the Berlin Academy. He’s working with reference galleries in Italy and Germany. Flaminio Gualdoni, Ian McEwan, Claudia Casali, Mark Gisbourne, Silvia Ferrari, Eli Sassoli de ’Bianchi, Sabrina Samorì, Silvia Tonelli, Stefano Castelli, Alessandra Redaelli, Viviana Siviero, Stefano Taddei, Francesca Nicoli wrote about her research. Selected solo shows: 2021 Back to myself L'Ariete artecontemporanea Bologna (I) 2020 LAYER L'Ariete artecontemporanea Bologna (I) 2018 MALIA Keramion Museum Cologne (D) 2017 He fashioned it and breathed into it of his spirit Galleria Lorch-Seidel Berlin (D) 2016 Eikon Municipal Art Collections Bologna 2014 The hand and the idol Galleria Officine Saffi Milan, Italy 2014 Magica Religio Palazzo Re Enzo Bologna 2012 Totem Medieval Civic Museum Bologna, Italy 2010 Fetishes L'Ariete artecontemporanea Bologna 2009 Dolls Gallery Lilly Zeligman Laren (NL).

Jingge Dong (1989 Beijing China) actually lives and works in Venice (I). Education: 2019 Accademia di Belle Arti Venezia (I) 2015 Degree of Master of Fine Art, Graduated School of Chinese Academy of Art (China) 2011 Bachelor of Art, Shanghai Normal University (China). Selected solo shows: 2022 A proposito dell’umor vitreo, a cura di Alberto Zanchetta, L’Ariete artecontemporanea, Bologna (I) 2021 Duet, personali di Damiano Colombi e Jingge Dong, a cura di Riccardo Caldura e Serse Roma in collaborazione con Arca, Itis, Trieste (I) | Jingge Dong. So close so far, testo di Alexander Merekin, Triangle Gallery, Moscow (Rus) | Dive into the Zeitgeist, personali di Alessio Barchitta e Jingge Dong, Amy-d Gallery, Milano (I) | 2020 Jingge Dong | Senza Pietre non c'e' Arco, a cura di Roberto Nardi, Libreria Minerva, Padova (I) | Jingge Dong. The Goddess of the Luo River, a cura di Daniele Capra, Azimut Palazzo Tubertini, Bologna (I) 2019 Jingge Dong|Galleryupperspace, L'Ariete artecontemporanea, Bologna (I) | Jingge Dong White night|Landscape of chaos, L'Ariete artecontemporanea, Bologna (I) 2018 Landscape of chaos, Laguna Libre, Venezia (I). Selected group shows: 2021 Extra Ordinary Workshop II, Padiglione Antares, Venezia (I) | Fortuna instabile quasi possibile, a cura di Luca Zuccala, ArtCurial, Milano (I) | Combat Prize 2021, mostra dei finalisti, Museo Giovanni Fattori, Livorno (I) | Premio Mestre 2021, mostra dei finalisti, Palazzo Candiani, Mestre (I) | 8° edizione Premio Cramum, mostra dei finalisti, Villa Mirabello, Milano (I) | Fortuna instabile quasi possibile, mostra degli artisti in residenza Lido la fortuna, a cura di Luca Zuccala e Andrea Tinterri, Rocca Malatestiana, Fano (I) | Unlikely, collettiva a cura di Curatorial Studies School Venice, Palazzo Malipiero, Venezia (I) | Back to myself. Jingge Dong Luca Lanzi Paolo Migliazza, L'Ariete artecontemporanea, in occasione di Art City Bologna 2021, Bologna (I) | Preferirei di no. Lo spazio utopico della rappresentazione, a cura di Stefano Cecchetto, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Venezia (I) 2020 Combat Prize 2020, mostra dei finalisti, Museo Giovanni Fattori, Livorno (I) | Extra Ordinary Workshop, Padiglione Antares, Venezia (I) | Whatever it takes, A plus A gallery, Venezia (I) | 222 Prospettiva Comune, tre artisti in Gad Giudecca Art District, Venezia (I) | 102ma Collettiva Giovani Artisti, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Venezia (I) 2011Biennale giovani artisti di Shanghai, Galleria di Mingyuan, Shanghai (China). Art Awards: 2021 Premio Mestre di Pittura 2021, winner 2018 Premio O.R.A. 2018, winner. Art Fairs: ArtVerona #ItalianSystem 2021, L'Ariete artecontemporanea, Verona (I) | Cosmoscow 2021, Triangle Gallery, Moscow (Rus) | Art Karlsruhe 2020, L'Ariete artecontemporanea, Karlsruhe (D) | Arte Fiera 2020, L'Ariete Artecontemporanea, Bologna (I). Residences/Collaborations: Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, atelier residenza artisti, Venezia (I) | La Biennale di Venezia, Salone Suisse Collateral Event, Swiss Pavilion, An Open House featuring student paintings, in collaboration with Swiss Art Council Prohelvetia, Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, curated by Céline Eidenbenz, Venice (I). Public Collections: 2021 So close so far #2, Collezione Ca' Pesaro, Galleria Internationale d'Arte Moderna, Venezia (I) 2015 Rime of the ancient mariner, Collection GSCAA Graduated School of Chinese Academy of Art (China).

Graziano Pompili (1943) lives and works in Italy. He studied sculpture and engraving at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. He was a professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and at the Academy of Brera in Milan. He was invited to numerous international sculpture biennials, at the Rome Quadriennale and in 1986 at the Venice Biennale. His works are in numerous public collections: MAMbo Bologna, Aosta Civic Collections, MAR Ravenna, Modena Civic Gallery, Pecci Prato Museum, Carisbo Bologna Foundation, Gubbio Sculpture Museum, MUSma Matera.