Ronchini Gallery is a contemporary art gallery founded by Lorenzo Ronchini in

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, in 1992. Artists exhibited at the gallery include:

Jacob Hashimoto Jacob Hashimoto (born 1973) is an American artist based in New York City. Using sculpture, painting, and installation, Hashimoto creates complex worlds from a range of modular components: bamboo-and-paper kites, model boats, even astroturf-covered ...

Will Cotton Will Cotton (born 1965 in Melrose, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American painter. His work primarily features landscapes composed of sweets, often inhabited by human subjects. Will Cotton lives and works in New York City. Work Cotton's works fr ...

Conrad Marca-Relli Conrad Marca-Relli (born Corrado Marcarelli; June 5, 1913 – August 29, 2000) was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been reco ...

, Berndnaut Smilde, Sean Lynch (artist),

Paul Jenkins (painter) Paul Jenkins (July 12, 1923 – June 9, 2012) was an American abstract expressionist painter. Biography Early years William Paul Jenkins (known as Paul Jenkins) was born in 1923 in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was raised. He met Frank Lloyd ...

Mario Schifano Mario Schifano (20 September 1934, Khoms, Libya – 26 January 1998, Rome, Italy) was an Italian painter and collagist of the Postmodern tradition. He also achieved some renown as a film-maker and rock musician. He is considered to be one of th ...

Alexander Calder Alexander Calder (; July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his ...

Alighiero Boetti Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti known as Alighiero e Boetti (16 December 1940 – 24 February 1994) was an Italian conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera. Background Boetti is most famous for a series of embroi ...

, Rebecca Ward, and Paolo Serra. Originally heardquartered in

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, the gallery moved to 22 Dering Street,

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, in February 2012. The inaugural exhibition was titled ''Italian Beauty'', and featured works by

Giulio Paolini Giulio Paolini (born 5 November 1940) is an Italian artist associated with both Arte Povera and Conceptual Art. Biography Paolini was born in Genoa. After a childhood spent in Bergamo, he moved with his family to Turin where he still lives toda ...

, Domenico Bianchi and

Giò Ponti Giovanni "Gio" Ponti ( ͡ʒo18 November 1891 – 16 September 1979) was an Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, teacher, writer and publisher. During his career, which spanned six decades, Ponti built more than a ...

. The program focuses on international

contemporary art Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic com ...

. Artists represented by the gallery include Adeline de Monseignat, Berndnaut Smilde,

Tameka Norris Tameka Norris, also known as. T.J. Dedeaux-Norris and Meka Jean is an American visual and performing artist. Norris uses painting, sculpture, and performance art to create work about racial identity and the simultaneous visibility and invisibilit ...

, and Rebecca Ward. In 2012, Ronchini Gallery announced the exclusive representation of the

Estate and mounted the American Abstract Expressionist’s artist first UK solo exhibition curated by David Anfam and Kenneth Baker. In 2013, the Gallery organised an exhibition of

and

Fausto Melotti Fausto Melotti (1901–1986) was an Italian sculptor, ceramicist, poet, and theorist. Life Fausto Melotti was born in the city of Rovereto, a city just east of Lake Garda in northeastern Italy in 1901. He had a sister, Renata Melotti, who was a ...

. In 2014 it hosted the first UK solo exhibitions of artists:

, Berndnaut Smilde and Adeline de Monseignat. The gallery hosts 6-8 exhibitions per year.

Exhibitions

*Elvire Boundelle: 25 January - 18 March 2017 *

: 25 November 2016 - 21 January 2017 *''Trust Issues'': 16 September - 18 November 2016. *Richard Höglund: 28 June - 10 September 2016. *

Massimo Vitali Massimo Vitali (born 1944) is an Italian photographer based in Lucca. Life and work Vitali was born in Como, Italy. He studied photography at the London College of Printing. He initially worked as a photojournalist for the Report Agency in the 19 ...

: 19 May - 18 June 2016. Massimo Vitali’s first UK solo exhibition in 5 years. * Gianpietro Carlesso and Paolo Serra: 18 March - 14 May 2016. *

Jan Fabre Jan Fabre (born 14 December 1958) is a Belgian multidisciplinary artist, playwright, stage director, choreographer and designer. Conviction for sexual assault and harassment In September 2018, twenty former members of Fabre's performing ar ...

: ''Knight of the Dark'' 11 February - 12 March 2016. Fabre’s first UK solo exhibition. * Adeline de Monseignat: ''Whispers'' 9 December 2015 - 30 January 2016. *Rebecca Ward: ''aphasia'' 8 October - 5 December 2015. *Ziggy Grudzinskas: ''I Can Because You Do'' 7 September - 3 October 2015. *''Hashtag Abstract'': 2 July - 29 August 2015. Featured Oliver Clegg, Richard Höglund, Christopher Kuhn and Kasper Sonne. Curated by Kamiar Maleki. * Sean Lynch: ''DeLorean Progress Report'' 21 May - 27 June 2015. *Jens Wolf: '' 13 March - 17 May 2015. *Pier Paolo Calzolari: ''Drawings, Projects and Works on Paper'' 23 January - 7 March 2015. *Adeline de Monseignat: ''Home'' 14 November 2014 - 17 January 2015. *''All That Matters Is What's Left Behind'' 19 September - 8 November 2014. Young artists Alex Clarke, Phoebe Collings-James, Ziggy Grudzinskas, Prem Sahib, Rebecca Ward and Jens Wolf. *

: 25 June - 9 August 2014. * Berndnaut Smilde: ''Antipode'', 11 April — 14 June 2014. *

: ''Almost Acquaintances'' 14 February - 29 March 2014. *Paolo Scheggi: ''Selected Works from European Collections'', 11 December 2013 — 8 February 2014. *

and his Italian contemporary, Fausto Melotti: ''Children of the Sky'', 11 October-30 November 2013. *Summer Group Show, 21 June - 1 August 2013. *Rebecca Ward: ''cow tipping'', 12 April - 18 May 2013. *''The Uncanny'', 16 January - 16 February 2013. Featured works by Berndnaut Smilde and Adeline de Monseignat. *Olivo Barbieri, 30 November 2012 - 10 January 2013. *Conrad Marca-Relli: ''The Architecture of Action'', 10 October - 24 November 2012. *''Time After Time'', 6 September - 2 October 2012. American artists Sam Falls, Andrew Brischler, David Mramor,

Davina Semo Davina Semo is an American artist (b. 1981, Washington DC) working in sculpture. She completed her MFA at the University of California, San Diego in 2006 and a BA in Visual Arts from Brown University in 2003. Life and work Semo is best known fo ...

and Rebecca Ward alongside Italian artists

Michelangelo Pistoletto Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 23 June 1933) is an Italian painter, action and object artist, and art theorist. Pistoletto is acknowledged as one of the main representatives of the Italian Arte Povera. His work mainly deals with the subject mat ...

Alberto Burri Alberto Burri (12 March 191513 February 1995; ) was an Italian visual artist, painter, sculptor, and physician based in Città di Castello. He is associated with the matterism of the European informal art movement and described his style as ...

, Dadamaino,

Piero Dorazio Piero Dorazio (Rome, June 29, 1927 - Perugia, May 17, 2005) was an Italian painter. His work was related to color field painting, lyrical abstraction and other forms of abstract art. Early life Dorazio was born in Rome. His father was a civil s ...

and Paolo Scheggi. *Hashimoto: ''The Other Sun'', 29 June - 29 August 2012. *''Italian Beauty'' (Giulio Paolini, Domenico Bianchi and Giò Ponti), 17 February - 5 April 2012.

Selected publications

Ronchini Gallery publishes artist monographs and exhibition texts."Ronchini Gallery"
My Art Guides * Bland, Bartholomew. ''Dream No Small Dreams: The Miniature Worlds of

Adrien Broom Adrien Broom is a contemporary fine art and commercial photographer from Connecticut. Broom's fine art photography often alludes to themes of childhood fantasy, with young women as the protagonists. Her commercial work includes fashion and portrai ...

, Thomas Doyle and Patrick Jacobs'', Ronchini Gallery, London, 2013. * Shaw, Cameron and Wilkerson, Emily. ''

: Almost Acquaintances'', Ronchini Gallery, London, 2014. * Marziani, Gianluca. '' Calder & Melotti: Children of the Sky'', Ronchini Gallery, London, 2013. * Farboud, Roxanna and Gregory, Eliza. ''All That Matters Is What's Left Behind'', Ronchini Gallery, London: 2014. * Applin, Jo. ''Adeline de Monseignat: Home'', Ronchini Gallery, London: 2014. * Nickas, Bob. ''Jens Wolf'', Ronchini Gallery, London: 2015. * Moszynska, Anna and Gregory, Eliza. ''Rebecca Ward: aphasia'', Ronchini Gallery, London: 2015.

References

External links

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