Milan, at Castello Sforzesco a major exhibition of Giovanni Frangi with more than 100 works

After eight years since his last Milan exhibition, one of Italy’s leading painters, Giovanni Frangi (Milan, 1959) returns to exhibit in the Lombard capital and does so with an exhibition entitled Showboat. Andata e ritorno, staged at Castello Sforzesco from March 29 to June 25, 2023, with an exhibition project curated by Giovanni Agosti.

The Milan exhibition unfolds through two exceptional settings within the walls of the Castello Sforzesco, tracing a chronological itinerary that gives a never-before-seen glimpse of Giovanni Frangi’s rich artistic production. On display for the occasion are more than one hundred works, presented in an exhibition itinerary that places the artist’s extensive graphic production alongside a body of volumes documenting his exhibition activity from the 1980s to the present. The visual and technical experiments explored over time are here complemented and enriched by the artist’s constant attention to the documentation of his work, constructing a powerful reflection through images and texts and returning valuable evidence of his own history.

The common thread of the exhibition project takes shape in the creation of the two volumes Andata e Ritorno, published by the Mainz publishing house. The books, produced for the occasion, retrace the path traced by the Showboat exhibition and return its reflections, themes and visual fragments.

Oscillating between experimentation and documentation, between images and texts, between “going” and “returning,” the Showboat exhibition aims to create a valuable snapshot of Giovanni Frangi’s work, whose two souls find their own ideal space in the halls and courts of Milan’s Castello Sforzesco.

Giovanni Frangi was born in Milan on May 12, 1959. He studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and made his debut in 1983 at La Bussola gallery in Turin. Of 1986 the exhibition at Galleria Bergamini in Milan. Numerous solo shows followed, including: La fuga di Renzo, in the Sala del Cenacolo at Montecitorio (Rome, 1998) where he began his collaboration with Giovanni Agosti; Il richiamo della foresta at Palazzo delle Stelline (Milan, 1999); Nobu at Elba at Villa Panza (Varese, 2004); Pasadena, in 2008 at the Gallery of Modern Art in Udine; MT2425 at the Oratory of San Lupo (Bergamo, 2008); La règle du jeu at Teatro India (Rome, 2010); Public Gardens at MART (Rovereto, 2010). In 2011 Straziante, meravigliosa bellezza del creato at Villa Manin (Passariano di Codroipo) and in 2013 Sheherazade at Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa. In 2014 he made a banner for MAXXI in Rome: Mollate le vele, then Alles ist Blatt at the Botanical Garden of the University of Padua and Lotteria Farnese in the Sala della Meridiana of the Archaeological Museum in Naples. In 2016 he exhibited Settembre in Rome at Palazzo Poli and Usodimare at Camec in La spezia. In 2017 it is the turn of Pret a porter at Palazzo Fabroni in Pistoia on the occasion of the inauguration of the year of the Capital of Culture. In 2019 he is in Tremezzo with Urpflanze and in 2020 he exhibits in Lecco at Palazzo delle Paure. In 2022 at Palazzo Parasi in Cannobio he presents the Vitaliana cycle and at the Franciscan Library in Imola Jaipur, a large Indian banner.

His works can be found in the public collections of the Cabinet of Drawings of the Uffizi Museum in Florence, the Chamber of Deputies in Rome, the Mart in Rovereto, the National Institute of Graphics in Palazzo Poli in Rome, the Museo Civici in Rimini, the Camec in La Spezia, the Gallery of Modern Art in Udine, Palazzo Forti in Verona, Palazzo Fabroni in Pistoia, the Museo Diocesano in Milan, and the Quirinale Palace in Rome.

For all information you can visit the Castello Sforzesco website.

Image: Giovanni Frangi, Tambac I (2008; aquatint, 100 x 150 cm)

Milan, at Castello Sforzesco a major exhibition of Giovanni Frangi with more than 100 works

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