Innocent as Doves, Wise as Serpents
Innocent as Doves Wise as Serpents Opening: Wednesday May 27, 2026 | 6:30pm – 9:00pm On view: May 28 – September 25, 2026 The exhibition features around forty small-format Naïve works from the Dino Menozzi collection. They have been described as innocent, dreamers, prophets of the past, and primitive. Yet the phenomenon of Naïve art […]
Art and Sport. Outsider Speed is Space
Art and Sport. Outsider Speed is Space Opening: Thursday February 5, 2026, 6 pm – 9.30 pmOn view: February 6 – 20, 2026 During Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, MARONCELLI DISTRICT presents exhibitions in galleries, showrooms dedicated to four cornerstones of sport: Harmony, Beauty, Well-being, and Speed. The Maroncelli 12 gallery presents “Art and Sport. Outsider Speed […]
Antonio Di Paola. Demons of ice and swords of fire
Antonio Di Paola. Demons of ice and swords of fire Opening: Wednesday November 26, 6:30 pm – 9 pmOn view: November 27 – January 23, 2026 Monsters, mythological creatures, geometric shapes, cosmic battles. The exhibition, curated by art historian Eva di Stefano, presents Antonio Di Paola, young artist from Palermo, who uses vivid, cheerful colors to combat the dark […]
Spirit and Spectres in Suresh’s colour
Spirit and Spectres in Suresh’s colour Opening: Tuesday May 27, 2025 | 6pm – 9pmOn view: May 28 – September 26, 2025 Maroncelli 12 gallery is pleased to announce the Suresh Prandi’s debut on the art scene and the power of his painting. “Spirito e spettri nel colore di Suresh / Spirit and Spectres in […]
Dubuffet e l’Art Brut
Dubuffet e l’Art Brut. Gli Outsider italiani Opening: Thursday November 28, at 6:30 pmOn view: November 29, 2024 – February 28, 2025 While the Mudec Museum in Milan is dedicating an exhibition to the Collection de l’Art Brut of Lausanne, Maroncelli 12 creates a dialogue between the Art Brut father and the Italian Outsider artists. […]
QU14TTORDICIVENTIQU24TTRO
QU14TTORDICIVENTIQU24TTRO Vernissage: Wednesday November 8, 2023 – 6:30 pmOn view: November 9 – December 22, 2023 Ten irregular years. Maroncelli 12 celebrates its tenth anniversary with a collective exhibition of Outsider artists, the Masters who made the history of the Milanese gallery. “Furtive and wild like a deer”: is the Jean Dubuffet’s definition of Art Brut […]
Samaneh Atef. Out of place
Samaneh Atef Out of place Vernissage: Wednesday November 8, 2023 – 6:30 pm On view: November 9 – December 22, 2023 After the stop in Turin, at GliAcrobati gallery, Samaneh Atef arrives in Milan at Maroncelli 12 with the exhibition “Fuori posto / Out of place”. The Iranian artist (1989, Bandar Abbas, Islamic Republic of Iran) […]
Raffaele Capuana. Il rosso è un colore che non conosco
Raffaele Capuana Il rosso è un colore che non conosco Opening: Thursday May 18, 2023 at 6.30 pmOn view: May 19, 2023 – September 27, 2023 I first encountered Raffaele Capuana’s painting while leafing through the pages of the Outsider Art Observatory (n. 20) where the beautiful article by Giorgio Seveso underlines his talent and […]
Davide Cicolani. e rimanemmo a guardare quello che accadeva
Davide Cicolani e rimanemmo a guardare quello che accadeva Vernissage: Wednesday November 16, 2022. At 6.30 pmWith the presence of the artistOn view November 17, 2022 – February 24, 2023 After participating in the Outsider Art Fair Paris, Maroncelli 12 returns to the gallery with a solo exhibition by Davide Cicolani. “e rimanemmo a guardare […]
Carlo Zinelli
Carlo Zinelli Carlo Zinelli was born at San Giovanni Lupatoto (Verona) in 1916. He was only two years old when his mother died. When he was nine, his father, a carpenter, sent him to work on a farm. Carlo later became a butcher’s apprentice at the municipal abattoirs in Verona. During this time he began […]