Cortesi Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Ugo Mulas – Pietro Consagra – Arnaldo Pomodoro, curated by Alberto Salvadori, at the gallery’s Lugano venue. The exhibition represents the third chapter in the collaboration between the gallery and the curator–an ongoing research project dedicated to the relationships and dialogues that shaped the Italian art scene in the postwar period. The exhibition has been realised with the support of the Archivio Ugo Mulas, which has made the artist’s photographs available to the gallery.
The artistic trajectory and close personal relationship that united these three central figures of the twentieth century form the core of the project. Ugo Mulas shared with Pietro Consagra and Arnaldo Pomodoro a deep affinity of intentions and visions regarding life and art. Their relationship, grounded in continuous intellectual and human proximity, developed within a context in which the boundary between artistic experience and everyday life was constantly traversed.
Mulas met Consagra in Venice in 1960, on the occasion of the Biennale, when the sculptor was awarded the International Grand Prize for Sculpture.