Gallery sights in Rome
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Galleria Colonna
The only part of Palazzo Colonna open to the public, this opulent 17th-century gallery houses the Colonna family’s private art collection. It’s not the capital’s largest collection but with works by Salvatore Rosa, Guido Reni, Guercino and Annibale Carracci, it’s well worth the ticket price. The gallery’s six rooms are crowned by glorious ceiling frescoes, all dedicated to Marcantonio Colonna, the family’s greatest ancestor, who defeated the Turks at the naval Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Works by Giovanni Coli and Filippo Gherardi in the Great Hall, Sebastiano Ricci in the Landscapes Room and Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari in the Throne Room commemorate his efforts. Of the…
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Palazzo delle Esposizioni
This huge neoclassical palace was built in 1882 as an exhibition centre. After a dazzling five-year makeover, it emerged in 2007 as a splendid cultural hub, with cathedral-scale exhibition spaces and sleekly designed art labs, bookshop, cafe and top-notch, glass-roofed restaurant that’s also an excellent place for a laidback lunch. The building hosts everything from multimedia events and art exhibitions to concert performances, film screenings and conferences. It frequently hosts blockbuster exhibitions such as ‘One Hundred Masterpieces from the Städel Museum of Frankfurt’, which featured impressionist and expressionist paintings. In various former lives, the …
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Pastificio Cerere
This hub of Rome’s contemporary art scene started life as a pasta factory in 1905. Abandoned in 1960, it came to prominence as home of the Nuova Scuola Romana (New Roman School), a group of six artists who set the nation’s art scene alight in the early 1980s, and who are still the organisation’s historic resident artists, but added to their number is a new generation, including Maurizio Savini, famous for his sculptures in pink chewing gum. There are regular shows in the building’s gallery and courtyard exhibition spaces, often featuring works created especially for the site.
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Edicola Notte
Blink and you might miss it! At 1m wide and 7m long, Edicola Notte is Rome's tiniest art gallery. Established by Chinese-Malay artist and expat HH Lim, it's a peek-from-the-street affair, lit up each night for voyeuristic passers-by. And before you start making size jokes, remember, it's what you do with it that counts - past exhibitors include art world heavies such as Jannis Kounellis, Yan Pei Ming and Yang Jiechang.
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Gagosian Gallery
Since it opened in 2007, the Rome branch of Larry Gagosian’s contemporary art empire has hosted the big names of modern art: Cy Twombly, Damien Hirst and Lawrence Weiner, to name a few. The gallery, which was designed by Roman architect Firouz Galdo and Englishman Caruso St John, offers 750 sq m of exhibition space in a stylishly converted 1920s bank, complete with a theatrical neoclassical colonnaded facade.
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Galleria Lorcan O'Neill
Kick-started by a London art dealer and set in a converted stable, this is one of Rome's most respected private galleries. It was also one of the first to bring edgy international names to the city - think Tracey Emin, Max Rental, Matvey Levenstein, as well as local talent such as Luigi Ontani and Pietro Ruffo.
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Fondazione Volume!
Head to this former glass factory for experimental, site-specific installations from A-list local and global artists. Past exhibitors include Jannis Kounellis, Sol Lewitt, Bernhard Rudiger and Marina Paris - each in turn have transformed the tiny space into completely different realities.
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Galleria Pino Casagrande
Take the goods lift to the 5th floor of the legendary Pastificio Cerere for intelligent, progressive art at this small, top-notch gallery. Past exhibitors include German photographer Jan Bauer and local sound artist Piero Mottola.
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