START. Un incessante inizio

From April 8, Siena celebrates Aldo Mondino with the exhibition "START. Un incessante inizio" set up at Santa Maria della Scala.

On display, in the spaces of the sixth level of Palazzo Squarcialupi, more than 30 works by the eclectic artist from Turin, one of the undisputed protagonists in the contemporary panorama of national and international artistic experimentation.

The story of Mondino's incredible artistic research, through the use of different techniques and materials, from the seeds of the first carpets, to works with sugar and nougat, from iron to bronze and ceramics, from caramel to chocolate, from glass to eraclite, until he came to oil painting on linoleum. An artist who traverses time and space in an extraordinarily surprising way, with an open and curious gaze turned to the East, the Arab world, North Africa, India, and the Jewish tradition.

The exhibition is articulated through works created between the 1980s and the early 2000s, including paintings on linoleum and medium- and large-scale sculptures from important public and private collections, in an engaging journey aimed at deepening a simultaneous vision of the poetic evolution of this great artist.
 

The exhibition, curated by Vittoria Coen, is organized by the Fondazione Antico Ospedale Santa Maria della Scala in collaboration with the Aldo Mondino Archive and is realized thanks to the contribution of Ars Movendi.