Past Exhibitions

In 2018, Labirinto della Masone’s Spring exhibition takes its title from Pangaea, the super-continent that broke up 180 million years ago, creating two continents, Laurasia and Gondwana, the direct predecessors of Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and Antarctica.

Renowned Mexican sculptor Javier Marín is the subject of the major fall exhibition at Labirinto della Masone.

Ettore Guatelli’s extraordinary creation, a museum of the everyday that describes, through a collection of objects, the life of twentieth-century peasants and craftsmen, is captured in a series of fifteen photographs by Mauro Davoli.

A seminal artist, Mattioli was introspective but fascinating in his restraint. While his paintings could verge on synaesthesia, managing to capture smells, materiality, and atmosphere, he could also express the profound literary ideas of the writers and poets he frequented, including Luzi, Bertolucci, Testori and Garboli.

Making use of the centuries-old language of the still-life, Davoli eternalizes objects that symbolize the fleetingness of life, making them, in a sense, come alive: a process he describes as “a tribute to the emergence of beauty.”

Patrizia Comand’s painting was inspired by Sebastian Brant’s book of the same title (Das Narrenschiff), published in the fifteenth century with illustrations by the young Albrecht Dürer. More than 9 meters wide, this impressive work demonstrates the artist’s creative maturity.

Covili’s original, poetic style comes through in more than thirty works, carefully selected by Franco Maria Ricci in collaboration with the artist’s estate.

This body of work is one among many inspired by nature, including insects and plants, for this artist whose work is also informed by both indigenous Mexican traditions and European art.

This exhibition by Florentine photographer Massimo Listri, an internationally renowned master photographer of art, architecture and interiors, is the culmination of his long-standing friendship with publisher Franco Maria Ricci that stretches back more than thirty years.

Gaetano Gandolfi was an eclectic artist who was an important figure in eighteenth-century Bologna. His incredible unpublished watercolor portraits of history’s great botanists and naturalists, exhibited for the first time at Labirinto della Masone, allow us to examine the close relationship between the academies of Art and Science in eighteenth-century Italy.