Founded in Genoa in 1969 as the Galleria Pourquoi Pas, this gallery has been known as Galleria Martini & Ronchetti since 1973. Dedicated at first to the presentation of contemporary artists, the gallery shifted its focus to 20th century avant-garde artists (Man Ray, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Florence Henri, Luigi Veronesi, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, etc.), favoring the presentation of bodies of work that developed an interdisciplinary language using different means of expression (painting, sculpture, photography, film) or that applied their experimental research to other disciplines like architecture, design and scenography.
The gallery has devoted particular attention to experimental photography, historical and contemporary, through the presentation of individual and thematic exhibitions, and the production of portfolios and limited-edition prints. The gallery’s other activities since the 1970s include the publication of catalogues to accompany their most significant exhibitions, and the promotion of artists long represented exclusively by the gallery, including César Domela, Franco Garelli, Florence Henri, Otto Hofmann, Allan Kaprow, Christian Lebrat and Meret Oppenheim.
Artist: Christian Lebrat
Galleria Martini & Ronchetti
Via Roma, 9
16121 Genova Italy
Tel. +39 010586962
Fax +39 010583375
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