Ben Ormenese Exhibition in Salò Showcases Works Spanning the 1960s to Today
Ben Ormenese’s retrospective, Lo spazio immobile del divenire, promoted by the Civica Raccolta del Disegno di Salò, opened at MuSa with curators Anna Lisa Ghirardi and Leonardo Conti alongside vice president Elena Ledda. The show runs from June 6 to October 4, 2026 and brings together about thirty rare works on paper and cardboard from the mid-1960s to the late years of the artist, emphasizing a return to cotton cardboard and investigations into light and color.
The exhibition traces key phases of Ormenese’s career: starting with floral-themed works from 1966, moving into abstraction circa 1967–1970 (including Composizioni of 1969 and Studi cromatici of 1970), and then Structures from the 1970s; it also documents the blaze at the end of the 1970s and the artist’s subsequent departure from Milan, followed by a creative return after 2000 with cycles of mirror lamellae (LAM) and the final Periodo bianco phase. The accompanying catalog, edited by Ghirardi and Conti, is published by PoliArt edizioni (92 pages).
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