Past
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Jannis Kounellis - Alfabeto, Early Works on Paper
17 Jan - 28 Mar 2025 Sprovieri is pleased to present Jannis Kounellis: Alfabeto, Early Works on Paper, organised in collaboration with the Estate of Jannis Kounellis, which marks the artist's sixth solo show with the gallery. The exhibition showcases 12 remarkable works on paper, created between 1959 and 1963, during a period of radical experimentation... Read more -
Emilio Prini - Typewriter Drawings. 1970/1975
19 Jul - 8 Nov 2024 The exhibition, curated by Luca Lo Pinto with Timotea Prini, brings together an important nucleus of works on paper created by Emilio Prini using an Olivetti 22 typewriter between 1970 and 1975. The drawings, never exhibited by the artist during his lifetime, offer an interesting glimpse into the most intense... Read more -
Cinthia Marcelle
em-entre-para-perante [in-between-to-towards] 5 Apr - 5 Jul 2024 Sprovieri is delighted to announce the launch of em-entre-para-perante [in-between-to-towards], Cinthia Marcelle’s third solo exhibition at the Gallery on Thursday 04 April from 6 to 8 pm in the presence of the artist. Internationally recognised Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle's artistic practice is a consistent continuation of socio-political art production in... Read more -
Renato Leotta
Vittoria sul Sole 26 Jan - 28 Mar 2024 We are delighted to present Vittoria sul Sole, Renato Leotta’s second solo exhibition at the Gallery, coinciding with the hundredth exhibition at Sprovieri. A pyroclastic eruption of a volcano ejects ash and lapilli into the sky, forming colossal black clouds composed of tiny particles of rocks and minerals. These exploded... Read more
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Pedro Cabrita Reis
insomnia 28 Sep - 22 Dec 2023 Sprovieri is delighted to present insomnia, Pedro Cabrita Reis’ fifth exhibition at the Gallery. Pedro Cabrita Reis (PCR) (Lisbon, 1956-) is the most internationalised of current Portuguese artists. His work simultaneously incorporates and interweaves various disciplines and languages, most notably painting, drawing, sculpture and assemblage. He explores all of the... Read more -
Francesco Arena
There is Nothing Here 2 Jun - 25 Aug 2023 Sprovieri is delighted to present There is Nothing Here, Francesco Arena’s fourth solo exhibition at the Gallery. The title of the exhibition, ironically, suggests that there is nothing present, but in reality, the exhibition is filled with various objects and elements. One prominent feature of the exhibition is the presence... Read more -
Mario Dellavedova
Sense Exercises / Sans Exercice 24 Mar - 26 May 2023 Sprovieri is delighted to present Sense Exercises / Sans Exercice, Mario Dellavedova’s fourth solo exhibition at the Gallery. The artist's conceptual work juxtaposes artefacts, furniture, textiles and everyday objects. Dellavedova creates works that through the richness of their materials and the refinement of their detail undermine their own quotidian function.... Read more -
Roma 60
Franco Angeli, Alberto Burri, Ettore Colla, Jannis Kounellis, Francesco Lo Savio, Fabio Mauri, Mario Schifano, Giuseppe Uncini 20 Jan - 17 Mar 2023 Sprovieri is proud to present Roma 60, an exhibition focused on a historical period in which Rome was a melting pot of ideas and artistic experimentation. A city of writers, poets, artists and filmmakers each of them characterised by its own individuality but united by political, cultural and social affinities. Read more
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LABINAC “A STICK IN THE FOREST” – ON POSSIBILITIES OF DESIGN
Works by LABINAC 11 Oct - 22 Dec 2022 Sprovieri is delighted to present “A STICK IN THE FOREST” – ON POSSIBILITIES OF DESIGN, works by LABINAC for their debut in London. LABINAC is a design collective founded in 2018 by Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmie Durham and Kai-Morten Vollmer, with the dual purpose of designing and making objects (furniture,... Read more -
Ben Quilty
THE EMU MAN 14 Jul - 30 Sep 2022 Sprovieri is delighted to present THE EMU MAN, in collaboration with A3 Arndt Art Agency, Ben Quilty’s debut exhibition at the Gallery. Quilty’s paintings are largely influenced by his experience of contemporary Australian culture, and particularly the drug-and-alcohol imbued culture of his youth; later experiences including political activism and a... Read more -
Sandra Vásquez de La Horra
Constellations 31 Mar - 30 Jun 2022 Sprovieri is delighted to present Constellations, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s second solo exhibition at the Gallery. Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s drawings are influenced by film, fairy tales, botanical and zoological textbooks, as well as from her personal background. Since 1997, the Artist finishes her drawings by dipping them... Read more -
Renato Leotta
Linea, Punto. 20 Jan - 25 Mar 2022 Sprovieri is delighted to present The Last Supper, the fourth show at the gallery by Cabrita. The Last Supper features three works by the artist that through his alchemical gaze, transmutes the object or materials into techniques, highlighting Cabrita’s practice as a painter. Leotta’s artistic practice is closely connected to... Read more
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Pedro Cabrita Reis
The Last Supper 11 Oct - 22 Dec 2021 Sprovieri is delighted to present The Last Supper, the fourth show at the gallery by Cabrita. The Last Supper features three works by the artist that through his alchemical gaze, transmutes the object or materials into techniques, highlighting Cabrita’s practice as a painter. “The synthetic naturalness, in which line is... Read more -
Pavel Pepperstein
Song of Liberty 23 Apr - 30 Jul 2021 Sprovieri is proud to present Song of Liberty, the third solo show at the gallery of Russian artist Pavel Pepperstein. Song of Liberty consists of 21 watercolour illustrations of William Blake's poem. The drawings illustrate images charged with a strong religious, satirical and political content. Mythological and historical figures, such... Read more -
Micol Assaël
Converting Words 6 Oct - 18 Dec 2020 Sprovieri is delighted to present Converting Words, the first solo show at the gallery of the Italian artist Micol Assaël. Converting Words will feature four recent sculptures that present key elements of Assaël’s practice. Her extensive research investigates natural and physical phenomena and forces, the interaction of ordinary materials and... Read more -
Art & Language
Picasso’s Guernica in the Style of Jackson Pollock (Essay II) 17 Jan - 20 Mar 2020 Sprovieri is proud to present Picasso’s Guernica in the Style of Jackson Pollock (Essay II), the second collaboration with Art & Language, who is represented by the Lisson Gallery. Picasso’s Guernica in the Style of Jackson Pollock (Essay II), 1980-2019, is a large rectangular work on paper, where the powerful... Read more
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Francesco Arena
Cubic Metre of Seawater as a Diagonal 2 Oct - 15 Nov 2019 Sprovieri is delighted to present Cubic Metre of Seawater as a Diagonal, the third solo show at the gallery of Italian artist Francesco Arena. “The internal dimensions of a metal tank are specifically designed to contain within it a cubic metre of sea water. Internally the tank is 13 metres... Read more -
Giorgio Andreotta Calò
Annunciazione 21 Jun - 23 Sep 2019 Sprovieri is delighted to present “Annunciazione”, the second solo show at the gallery of Italian artist Giorgio Andreotta Calò. Giorgio Andreotta Calò often operates within the liminal space in which natural and anthropic forces interact. Photography, etymologically the union of the terms drawing and light, is understood as the interaction... Read more -
Emilio Prini
Colori 3 May - 14 Jun 2019 Sprovieri and Archivio Emilio Prini are delighted to present “Colori”, final previously unseen work by Emilio Prini, dated by the artist himself in June 2016, in Rome. The thirteen unframed 70 x 50 cm (B2) pieces containing as many colours suggest an homage to the 13 artists of Arte Povera,... Read more -
Eric Wesley
Reputation 25 Jan - 18 Apr 2019 Sprovieri is pleased to present “Reputation”, Eric Wesley’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, in collaboration with Galleria Fonti, Naples. There are a number of Eric Wesleys represented or rather “present” at the current show of Sprovieri. The project was born through the simple and ubiquitous act of one looking... Read more
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Pedro Cabrita Reis - Jimmie Durham - Cildo Meireles
in collaboration with Galeria Luisa Strina 2 Oct - 20 Dec 2018 Sprovieri is delighted to present a group show including works by Pedro Cabrita Reis, Jimmie Durham, and Cildo Meireles. The exhibition will feature works by the three internationally renown conceptual artists who have in common to work on simple materials and everyday life items reassembled in order to gain a... Read more -
Boris Mikhailov
Yesterday's Sandwich 16 May - 10 Aug 2018 Sprovieri is delighted to present the fourth solo show at the gallery of Boris Mikhailov, one of the most influential artists living today. The exhibition focuses on the first series conceived by Boris Mikhailov, Superimpositions, also called by Mikhailov Butterbrot (Sandwich). This body of works evolved between the late ‘60s... Read more -
Francesco Arena
Due ritratti con persona 2 Mar - 5 May 2018 Sprovieri is delighted to present Due ritratti con persona, the second solo show at the gallery of Italian artist Francesco Arena. The exhibition is centred around Two portraits with person (between Franco and Francesco), the first work of a new series by the artist, which deals with two of the... Read more -
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
Quotations 24 Nov 2017 - 17 Feb 2018 Sprovieri is delighted to present Quotations, the eighth exhibition of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at the gallery. ‘The series Quotations is built on dramaturgy, the play in the conflict between two juxtaposed, different painting practices that have different origins, each of which has its own historical roots. (…) The tradition... Read more
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Giorgio Morandi Cabrita Reis
28 Sep - 18 Nov 2017 Sprovieri is delighted to present ‘Giorgio Morandi Cabrita Reis’, the second exhibition at the gallery of Portuguese artist Pedro Cabrita Reis together with three still lifes from 1941, 1953 and 1964 by Giorgio Morandi. Cabrita Reis is not interested in contingencies that isolate and/or fragment artworks chronologically or conceptually over... Read more -
Chelpa Ferro
Spacemen/Cavemen 30 Jun - 22 Sep 2017 Sprovieri is delighted to present Spacemen/Cavemen, the second exhibition in London of the Brazilian collective Chelpa Ferro. Spacemen/Cavemen is a hybrid work, possessing a 'gambiarresca' nature. Two modules, two wooden poles - one emitter of lights and one emitter of sounds - from which discarded objects and material, such as... Read more -
Sergio Lombardo
Gesti Tipici and Monochromes 28 Apr - 17 Jun 2017 Sprovieri is proud to present Gesti Tipici and Monochromes, the first solo exhibition of Italian artist Sergio Lombardo in London. Psychologist and artist, Lombardo is one of the main Italian artists who have renewed the European and International artistic language since the late fifties. The exhibition juxtaposes a selection of... Read more -
Alighiero Boetti
Magie straordinarie 11 Jan - 11 Mar 2017 Sprovieri is delighted to present Alighiero Boetti: Magie straordinarie, works on paper. Exhibiting fourteen works from 1965 to 1983, this exhibition explores Alighieri Boetti’s career, with early examples from several seminal series that have rarely been seen before. The exhibits are works on paper, mainly black and white, made with... Read more
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Art & Language and Ilya Kabakov
THE NON-OBJECTIVE WORLD 30 Sep - 21 Dec 2016 Sprovieri is pleased to present Art & Language and Ilya Kabakov in THE NON-OBJECTIVE WORLD. The exhibition revisits the radical, early 20th century theoretical departure spelled out by Kasimir Malevich in his book, The Non-Objective World, not through his original Black Square paintings, but through related works by the important... Read more -
Esther Shalev-Gerz
THE LAST CLICK 13 May - 30 Jul 2016 Sprovieri and Jill Silverman van Coenegrachts, jsvcPROJECTS/London are pleased to announce the first solo gallery exhibition of international artist Esther Shalev-Gerz in London. Recognised for her seminal investigation into public space and participatory art, Shalev-Gerz’s work presents an uncanny understanding of the invisible and the voids in between people, ideas,... Read more -
Francesco Arena
Autumn lines 11 Feb - 30 Apr 2016 Sprovieri is delighted to present ‘Autumn Lines’ the inaugural exhibition with the gallery by Italian artist Francesco Arena. Numbers that take on form. If one were to compress a large part of Francesco Arena's work into a simple, direct formula, this could certainly be it. From a linguistic point of... Read more -
Fifteen Years
12 Nov 2015 - 30 Jan 2016 Read more
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Boris Mikhailov
1 Oct - 7 Nov 2015 Sprovieri is delighted to present the gallery’s third solo show by world-renowned photographer Boris Mikhailov. Spanning twenty years of his career, the exhibition is a survey of the artist’s latest production, displaying works created between 1986 and 2000. The photographs are from four different series: Salt Lake (1986), 'I am... Read more -
D 13088
Alicja Kwade, Michael Sailstorfer, Thomas Rentmeister 4 Jun - 25 Jul 2015 Sprovieri is delighted to bring together new works by three Berlin-based artists, Alicja Kwade, Michael Sailstorfer and Thomas Rentmeister. The three artists work in adjacent studios in a large building in Liebermannstr 24-28 in former East Berlin. While maintaining their own specific language and use of materials they share a... Read more -
Giorgio Andreotta Calò
La scultura lingua morta lll 5 Mar - 23 May 2015 Sprovieri is delighted to present ‘La scultura lingua morta III’, the first solo show at the gallery by Italian artist Giorgio Andreotta Calò. ‘La scultura lingua morta III’ gravitates around sculpture, a discipline that the artist has been following for years, alongside site-specific and performative works. Sculpture is therefore the... Read more -
Jannis Kounellis
12 Dec 2014 - 21 Feb 2015 Sprovieri is proud to present the fifth solo show by Jannis Kounellis at the gallery. The exhibition will present a single large installation that occupies the whole space of the main gallery. The installation was originally presented at Palazzo Vignola in Todi (Umbria) in August 2014, which the following text... Read more
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The London Angles
Pedro Cabrita Reis 16 Oct - 6 Dec 2014 Sprovieri is delighted to announce ‘The London Angles’ the inaugural exhibition with the gallery by Portuguese artist Pedro Cabrita Reis. Cabrita Reis’ complex work can be characterised by an idiosyncratic philosophical and poetical discourse embracing a great variety of means: painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and installations composed of industrial and... Read more -
The Go-Between
10 Sep - 4 Oct 2014 Read more -
Still Lifes Off : With the participation of Carlo Benvenuto
Mario Dellavedova 6 Jun - 26 Jul 2014 Sprovieri is delighted to present ‘Still Lifes Off’, the third solo show at the gallery of Italian artist Mario Dellavedova with the participation of Carlo Benvenuto. 'The necessity of giving shape to the sense of the artworks is where the idea of this exhibition comes from. The exhibits evoke specific... Read more -
Maskhara
Avish Khebrehzadeh 16 Apr - 31 May 2014 Sprovieri is delighted to announce 'Maskhara' by Avish Khebrehzadeh, the artist's second solo show at the gallery. For this exhibition Avish Khebrehzadeh produces an animation video 'Maskhara in 8 eMotions' and a body of related pencil and ink drawings rendered on layers of paper. Khebrehzadeh’s distinctive and paired down line... Read more
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The Agreement
Matheus Rocha Pitta 6 Feb - 29 Mar 2014 ‘In saying yes, Andy Warhol agreed with social and economic reality. Warhol is the artist of agreement. To agree in this sense, though, is to confront oneself with reality as it is. To agree is the precondition for either accepting or refusing something; only by agreeing can one change it.... Read more -
Wood, Stones and Friends
Jimmie Durham 28 Nov - 22 Dec 2013 Sprovieri is delighted to present the third solo exhibition by Jimmie Durham 'Wood, Stone and Friends'. The six sculptures were produced in 2012 for Durham's exhibition at The Sala Dorica in the Palazzo Reale, Naples and will be exhibited in the UK for the first time. Striking assemblages of wood... Read more -
Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Micol Assaël, Gabriele de Santis, Seb Patane, Jorge Peris, Pietro Roccasalva, Marinella Senatore
New Works #1 18 Oct - 23 Nov 2013 Sprovieri is delighted to present new sculptural works created specifically for this exhibition by Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Micol Assaël, Gabriele De Santis, Seb Patane, Jorge Peris, Pietro Roccasalva and Marinella Senatore. 'Upon a small marble slab the information for the exhibition New Works #1 at Sprovieri Gallery in London is... Read more -
Provas Circunstâncias do Brasil
Jimmie Durham 22 May - 13 Jul 2013 Sprovieri is delighted to present “Provas Circunstâncias do Brasil” an exhibition of works by Jimmie Durham which were produced in Rio de Janeiro for the space co-owned by the gallery and will be exhibited in the UK for the first time. The show is a celebration of material; using found... Read more
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Two Mountains
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov 27 Mar - 11 May 2013 Sprovieri Gallery is proud to announce Two Mountains, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, internationally recognised as two of the most influential living artists. The exhibition, from March 27 to May 11, coincides with the Kabakov’s major installation, The Happiest Man, at Ambika P3, University... Read more -
The Happiest Man, Ampika p3
Ilya And Emilia Kabakov 27 Mar - 21 Apr 2013 Read more -
Automóvel
Cinthia Marcelle 12 Oct - 24 Nov 2012 Sprovieri is pleased to announce Automóvel (Automobile) a new video work by Cinthia Marcelle, which will be presented as part of the artist’s second solo show at the gallery. Marcelle uses video and photography to document the effects that her interventions have on the usual order of things. Particularly, Marcelle’s... Read more -
Works on Paper
Alighiero Boetti 27 Apr - 28 Jul 2012 Sprovieri is delighted to present ‘Alighiero Boetti: Works on paper’ in collaboration with Alessandra Bonomo. The exhibition will showcase a refined selection of twenty works on paper realised by Alighiero Boetti between the late 1960s and the late 1980s. The exhibits will offer an unedited perspective on the varied oeuvre... Read more
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Triptychs
Boris Mikhailov 9 Feb - 14 Apr 2012 Sprovieri is delighted to present Triptychs, the gallery’s second solo exhibition by world-renowned photographer Boris Mikhailov. Constituting a comprehensive overview of Mikhailov’s complex and varied oeuvre, the photographs selected for this exhibition come from ten different series, spanning a period of fifty years. Since the mid 1960s, Boris Mikhailov has... Read more -
GIOVANNI ANSELMO, JANNIS KOUNELLIS, GIUSEPPE PENONE, EMILIO PRINI
Recent works 5 Dec 2011 - 9 Mar 2012 Sprovieri is delighted to present an exhibition of recent works by Giovanni Anselmo, Jannis Kounellis, Giuseppe Penone and Emilio Prini. The selection of works brings together some of the most influential living artists of the Arte Povera, the Italian artistic movement that in the late 1960s explored art not only... Read more -
Where do we go from here?
Avish Khebrehzadeh 7 Oct - 22 Dec 2011 For her first solo show at Sprovieri Gallery, London, Avish Khebrehzadeh produces three interconnected spaces comprising of a large installation in the main space, an animation projection and a further space of drawings. The centrepiece installation entitled Where Do We Go From Here? features an animation in Khebrehzadeh’s distinctive paired... Read more -
Fireleap
Nan Goldin 24 Jun - 24 Sep 2011 Sprovieri Gallery is delighted to host the UK presentation of Nan Goldin’s Fireleap as part of the inaugural exhibition at the new gallery space at 23 Heddon Street, London. Nan Goldin is known as an artist whose output is inextricably bound up with her own biography, and for breaking down... Read more
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Provisional Heritage
Matheus Rocha Pitta 11 Mar - 14 May 2011 Sprovieri presents Provisional Heritage, the second solo show in the UK by the young, award winning Brazilian artist, Matheus Rocha Pitta, at the new gallery space: 23 Heddon Street. Provisional Heritage is a result of the artist’s incursion into an abandoned warehouse in East London a couple of weeks before... Read more -
Matheus Rocha Pitta
FF#2, Rio de Janeiro 13 Nov - 11 Dec 2010 Matheus Rocha Pitta intervém radicalmente no espaço da Progetti. Bloqueia o acesso pelo térreo ao vão que se abre, banhado por luz natural, nos três andares do sobrado no centro do Rio de Janeiro. Outras passagens, porém, são abertas. Manipuladas pelo artista, as paredes tornam-se referências para uma arquitetura alterada... Read more -
arts, media and sports
Jimmie Durham 7 Oct - 4 Dec 2010 Sprovieri Gallery is delighted to present arts, media and sports, an exhibition of new works by American performance artist, sculptor, poet, writer and political activist Jimmie Durham. This is Durham’s first collaboration with Sprovieri Gallery, and is a development from his recent assemblage Spring Fever at Tatton Park, as part... Read more -
Os 70's
Rio de Janeiro 4 Sep - 23 Oct 2010 Os 70's September 4 - October 23 Curated by Paulo Reis. Amelia Toledo Anna Bella Geiger Anna Maria Maiolino Antonio Dias Antonio Manuel Artur Barrio Carlos Fajardo Carlos Vergara Carlos Zilio Carmela Gross Cildo Meireles Ivens Machado Josê Resende Nelson Leirner Paulo Bruscky Regina Silveira Tunga Waltercio Caldas Wanda Pimentel Read more
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Jungle Jam
Chelpa Ferro 15 Jun - 18 Sep 2010 Sprovieri is delighted to present Chelpa Ferro’s sound installation Jungle Jam. Chelpa Ferro is an art group formed in 1995 by the Brazilian artists Barrão, Luiz Zerbini and Sergio Mekler. Barrão made a name for himself in the 1980s, by using banal materials – from refrigerator components, to television parts... Read more -
Jannis Kounellis
New works At Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London 23 Apr - 30 May 2010 Greco-Italian artist Jannis Kounellis, a key figure in international contemporary art for over forty years, will create major new works, especially conceived for Ambika P3. Using the unique characteristics offered by the spaces of Ambika P3 as his canvas, this major new exhibition, presented by Sprovieri Gallery, will be the... Read more -
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
The Flying Painting 30 Mar - 29 May 2010 Sprovieri Gallery is delighted to present The Flying Paintings, a new series of paintings by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. The Kabakovs are Russia’s foremost living artists. In 2008 they launched the Garage Centre for contemporary art in Moscow, exhibiting their total installations for the first time in twenty years since... Read more -
Provas Circunstânciais Do Brasil
Jimmie Durham 12 Dec 2009 - 16 Feb 2010 Read more
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Under the Snow
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov 17 Nov 2009 - 16 Jan 2010 Sprovieri is pleased to present four large paintings from Ilya & Emilia Kabakov “Under the Snow” (2004 – 2006) from 17th November through 16th January 2010. This is their fifth exhibition at Sprovieri. “Under the Snow’s concept is based on the idea of the depiction of a soft, bright, white... Read more -
Waiting for the Black Out
Jorge Peris 24 Sep - 31 Oct 2009 Sprovieri is pleased to present “This Way – Waiting for the Blackout” the second exhibition at the gallery by Jorge Peris. For this exhibition the artist continues in his mode of creating site specific works. In this latest installation, Peris challenges the viewer’s perception through creating a 360 degree experience... Read more -
Acusma, Rio de Janeiro
Chelpa Ferro 4 Jul - 3 Oct 2009 Read more -
To Come To
Cinthia Marcelle 19 Mar - 25 Apr 2009 Sprovieri is pleased to present Cinthia Marcelle’s first exhibition in London of new work titled To Come To. In this video, a yellow earthmover is seen driving in a continuous figure eight formation, lifting red soil from one loop and displacing it to the other. Recalling the movement of sand... Read more
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I Sleep in the Orchard
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov 5 Dec 2008 - 14 Feb 2009 Sprovieri is pleased to exhibit the installation I Sleep in the Orchard by Ilya & Emilia Kabakov. This is their fourth exhibition at the gallery in London. I Sleep in the Orchard is one of the rooms in an imaginary mental institute. This Institute has a completely different approach to... Read more -
Drive thru # 1
Matheus Rocha Pitta 11 Oct - 15 Nov 2008 Sprovieri Progetti presents Drive thru #1, an interrogation of perceptual processes and the status of the image by Brazilian artist Matheus Rocha Pitta, for his first UK exhibition. Drive thru #1 plays on the etymology of the word ‘apprehend’, meaning to take hold, to confiscate, or to understand. For Brazilian... Read more -
New Works
Jannis Kounellis 5 Aug - 15 Nov 2008 Read more -
Mario Merz
12 Jun - 2 Aug 2008 Mario Merz was a leading member of the Italian artistic movement known as Arte Povera. Merz and his colleagues, who included his wife Marisa, Giovanni Anselmo, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Michelangelo Pistoletto, used ordinary, 'poor' materials, both natural and manufactured, to create the most poetic, extraordinary effects. Their work gained... Read more
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The Wedding
Boris Mikhailov 28 Mar - 17 May 2008 Sprovieri is pleased to announce the launch of Boris Mikhailov’s latest publication ‘The Wedding’, in the presence of the artist. The series, previously exhibited at the Sprovieri Gallery in London in 2008, has been bound into a limited edition book with a text by Adrian Searle and published by Mörel... Read more -
Impossible Mind
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra 29 Nov 2007 - 15 Feb 2008 Demons, ghosts, creatures of myth and gloomy dreams reawaken in the diminutive drawings of Sandra Vásquez de la Horra. Born in Viña del Mar in Chile in 1967, the artist will exhibit her visionary, wax coated works at Sprovieri Progetti for her first solo show in the UK. Having studied... Read more -
Gigantomania
Pavel Pepperstein 1 Jun - 14 Jul 2007 Sprovieri is pleased to present the third London exhibition of the Russian Conceptualist Pavel Pepperstein. The exhibition comprises a series of new drawings entitled Gigantomania. The central theme of this body of work is the idea of monumentality. Pepperstein employs monumentality as a condition for perpetuating the power of what... Read more -
Jannis Kounellis
23 Mar - 12 May 2007 Sprovieri is pleased to present two seminal works from Jannis Kounellis’s 1980s oeuvre. The pieces present in the show, dating from 1983 and 1987 respectively, are part of what Kounellis calls his “formalization” period, a time of critical changes in both form and content. Concluding the 1970s era Kounellis started... Read more
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Sitaki Manemo
Mario Dellavedova 24 Nov 2006 - 20 Jan 2007 Sprovieri is pleased to present the second solo show in London by Mario Dellavedova. Mario Dellavedova spends half of the year in Mexico where his fabric canvases are hand sewn. On each canvas he has applied neon phrases in different colours. The exhibition is made up of six mono or... Read more -
Heads
Dellavedova, Durham, Hawkinson, Kabakov, Kounellis, Nelson, Ontani, Porrit, Sachs, Silver 28 Sep - 11 Nov 2006 In the Capitoline Museum in Rome there are several busts of Socrates. The myth has persisted that Socrates’ appearance derived from the labour of his mind. The likenesses of him suggest that his brain grew like a muscle through a process of continuous breakage and healing resulting in a cranium... Read more -
Maurizio Cannavacciuolo
5 May - 29 Jul 2006 Sprovieri is pleased to present the second show in London of paintings by Maurizio Cannavacciuolo. In Maurizio Cannavacciuolo’s works the surface of the canvas is densely covered with intricate decorative motifs from the European and Middle-Eastern tradition, to compose a puzzle in which the figure fluctuates within a surreal, dreamlike... Read more -
Beshty, Coolidge, Freeman, Toister, James
Studio City: Contemporary Photography from Los Angeles 10 Mar - 15 Apr 2006 Sprovieri is pleased to present 'Studio City', Contemporary Photography from Los Angeles, curated by Efrat Shalem, featuring works by Los Angeles based artists: Walead Beshty, Miles Coolidge, Andrew Freeman, Yanai Toister and James Welling. Los Angeles is a guardian of images for the whole world. From here, images preserved on... Read more
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New Works
Felix Curto 20 Jan - 25 Feb 2006 Sprovieri is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in the UK of works by Spanish artist Felix Curto. “Felix Curto is a cowboy who moves to new pastures and lives in his own country. His boundaries widen with his steps and his herd is made up of his own... Read more -
The White Cube
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov 21 Oct - 21 Dec 2005 Sprovieri is pleased to present the third exhibition of works by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. In the exhibition, stands a white cube that is 2.66 metres tall. Each wall has a width of 2.8 metres. The surface of the cube is very smooth, shiny, and is covered with white enamel.... Read more -
Joseph Beuys
8 Sep - 9 Oct 2005 Sprovieri is pleased to present you an exhibition of significant drawings and multiples by Joseph Beuys (1921- 1986). Joseph Beuys is universally celebrated as one of the most important and revolutionary European artists of the last century. Through his creative projects, Beuys blurred the boundaries between art and life, developing... Read more -
Burri, Fontana, Manzoni
1 Apr - 6 May 2005 This exhibition brings together the works of three Italian Post-War artists: Alberto Burri (1915-1995), Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) and Piero Manzoni (1933-1963). These three artists alongside Francesco Lo Savio (1935-1963) and Pino Pascali (1935-1968) changed the course of Italian contemporary art with influence well beyond their national borders. Burri re-conceptualisation of... Read more
