LUCIANO VENTRONE. Sogno oil on linen 130 x 130 cm (51 x 51 in) ALBEMARLE

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1 LUCIANO VENTRONE Sogno oil on linen 130 x 130 cm (51 x 51 in) ALBEMARLE

2 ALBEMARLE Albemarle Gallery in association with Art Moorhouse presents LUCIANO VENTRONE 2-30 May 2013 Mon-Fri 1-5pm Moorhouse, 120 London Wall, City of London EC2Y 5ET 120 LONDON WALL LONDON EC2Y 5ET T+44 (0) The exhibition will include the London debut presentation of Mosaico, a monumental painting of 9 one metre square canvas panels, first exhibited in the Italian Pavilion at the 54 th Venice Biennale 2011, curated by the pre-eminent art critic Vittorio Sgarbi. Please call Art Moorhouse Manager/Curator to arrange appointments on weekday mornings and weekends RECEPTION Thursday 2 May 6-8pm RSVP to info@albemarlegallery.com / Continuità oil on linen 90 x 130 cm (35 x 51 in)

3 Luciano Ventrone is regarded by the Italian art establishment, museums, curators and critics as one of the leading exponents of his genre. He is loved, admired and respected by the Italian people, collected by the Italian Government, Corporate Institutions and avid collectors to such extent that his one-man shows are complete sell-outs. Art Historian and Critic, Edward Lucie-Smith states, Ventrone is often categorized as a hyper-realist. This implies that his work is somehow related to photography. As anyone who has looked at his paintings carefully will know, this is not the case. Far from offering us the somewhat flattened version of physical forms typical of the monocular vision of the camera, his paintings have an almost overwhelming solidity and physical presence, to the point where the nearest shapes seem ready to break through the front plane of the canvas. Despite any comparisons that can be made to the art of the past, whether to Caravaggio or to any other artist, this is painting that is intransigently modern, completely of our own day. His paintings are in numerous public and private collections worldwide. Sirene oil on linen 120 x 150 cm (47 x 59 in)

Art Historian and Critic, Edward Lucie-Smith states, Ventrone is often categorized as a hyper-realist. This implies that his work is somehow related to photography.

4 Selected Solo Exhibitions 2012 Luciano Ventrone, Albemarle Gallery, London Luciano Ventrone, Musei di Villa Torlonia Casino dei Principi 2011 Luciano Ventrone, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York Le Stanze dell Arte Museo civico di San Francesco, Montefalco, Perugia 2010 Io Cerco fondazione per i ragazzi del mondo Ibrahim Kodra, Melide Svizzera Palazzo del Broletto, Como Luciano Ventrone, Marble Palace Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg 2009 L Inverosimile Verosimiglianza, curated by Beatrice Buscaroli, Fondazione Bandera, Busto Arsizio Studio Forni, Milano Simposio, Albemarle Gallery, London 2008 Luciano Ventrone e l eterno presente, Galleria Forni, Bologna Luciano Ventrone. Le verità dipinte, Palazzo Luigi Einaudi, Chivasso Turin Luciano Ventrone, Albemarle Gallery, London 2006 Luciano Ventrone and the Eternal Present, curated by E. Lucie-Smith, Albemarle Gallery, London Luciano Ventrone, Correggio Reggio Emilia Studio Forni, Milan Over 50 solo exhibitions worldwide Selected Public, Corporate and Private Collections Modern Art Collection of the Italian Senate Barilla Collection Umberto Agnelli Collection Carlo De Benedetti Collection Silvio Scaglia Collection Ente Fiera Bologna Collection Ferrari President Luca Cordero di Montezemolo Romano Prodi (Former Italian Prime Minister) Massimo D Alema (Former Italian Foreign Minister) Ottaviano Del Turco Collection Fabbri Editore (Leading Italian book publisher) Federico Zeri Foundation Collection Luigi Cremonini Collection Carlo Edoardo Valli Collection Fontana Collection Andrea Mascagni Collection National Gallery of Art, Washington DC USA Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahayan Collection Barclays Bank, UK Corporate Collection Continuità II oil on linen 90 x 130 cm (35 x 51 in)

Palace Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum, State Russian Museum, St.

5 Mosaico oil on linen 305 x 305 cm (120 x 120 in)

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90 cm (20 x 35 in) Strani Incontri oil on linen 60 x 60 cm (24 x 24 in) Vento d Oriente oil on linen 60 x 70

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