“There is nothing and no one who is truly separate from the rest,
life itself manifests itself in relationship.
Between the painter and the making of the picture, between the painting and the viewer….
These Threads in art are what binds us to fellow travelers,
to contemporary history,
to the past,
to the different forms of art”

Renato Mambor

On Thursday, May 23rd, Tornabuoni Arte Roma will open an exhibition dedicated to Renato Mambor, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his death, in collaboration with the Archivio Mambor and with the scientific advice of Maria Grazia Messina.

The exhibition, through some 30 works, aims to present the path and artistic practice of Renato Mambor, “the ‘conceptual’ artist, the most emotionally chilled, within the so-called ‘Scuola di Piazza del Popolo’” (M. G. Messina). The exhibition highlights the substantial steps and the poetic and formal coherence always maintained from the earliest results, up to the latest productions. Despite the plurality of languages used and the multiplicity of intentions, Renato Mambor’s work continuously speaks of observation, language, communicability and relationship with the other.

The narrative of the exhibition invites us to proceed from the most historical works to the latest production, then retracing it in reverse, implementing Mambor’s own wish: “I would like the work to be reread today from today. Now that we live. […] The artist is not the one who certifies the present but the one who sets the seeds for the future.”

Press Release