Bratislava, Vasco Bendini exhibition at the Museum of City History

An exhibition of the works of Vasco Bendini has opened at Bratislava Castle, in the rooms of the Museum of City History. The exhibition celebrates the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth. It was organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Bratislava and the Embassy of Italy in Slovakia, with the collaboration of the Museum itself and of the Frittelli Contemporary Art gallery in Florence. The show takes place just a few days from the close of the anthological exhibition entitled "Vasco Bendini. Ombre prime", curated by Bruno Corà at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome and the opening of another exhibition in Palazzo Franchetti in Venice.

A pupil of Virgilio Guidi and Giorgio Morandi, Vasco Bendini (Bologna 1922 - Roma 2015) was, from the 1940s, one of the pioneers and leading figures in the informal art movement in Italy and Europe. In the 1960s his work was devoted to the production of objects and installations, in advance of the results achieved by Arte Povera. 1970 marked his definitive return to painting.

His works have been shown in one-man and collective shows in international galleries and museums such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Saarbrücken Museum of Modern Art, the Saarlouis Museum of Modern Art, the Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, the Casa del Mantegna in Mantua, the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea (PAC) in Milan, the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, the Scuderie del Quirinale and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACRO) in Rome. Bendini is one of the artists in the Farnesina Collection.