{"id":160167,"date":"2025-09-25T19:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/160167\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T19:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:55:12","slug":"in-milans-neoclassical-centre-an-elegant-palazzo-celebrates-contemporary-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/160167\/","title":{"rendered":"In Milan’s neoclassical centre, an elegant palazzo celebrates contemporary art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite opening galleries consistently in art centres like London, Paris and Seoul, Thaddaeus Ropac suspected he could not be considered a true art powerhouse without a gallery<\/a> in Italy. \u2018We increasingly felt Italy was missing from our constellation of European galleries, since it has always been important to how we have grown internationally and to our artists,\u2019 he said ahead of his launch at Milan\u2019s 18th-century Palazzo Belgioioso. \u2018Milan<\/a> is at Europe\u2019s crossroads, with Italy the continent\u2019s heartbeat. The country has profoundly shaped the evolution of art through the ages, and it\u2019s where crucial modern art movements were conceived.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Georg Baselitz and Lucio Fontana, L\u2019aurore viene, installation view at Thaddaeus Ropac Milan, September 2025. Photo: Roberto Marossi. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London \u00b7 Paris \u00b7 Salzburg \u00b7 Milan \u00b7 Seoul.<\/p>\n

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Georg Baselitz and Lucio Fontana, L\u2019aurore viene, installation view at Thaddaeus Ropac Milan, September 2025. Photo: Roberto Marossi. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London \u00b7 Paris \u00b7 Salzburg \u00b7 Milan \u00b7 Seoul.<\/p>\n

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Georg Baselitz and Lucio Fontana, L\u2019aurore viene, installation view at Thaddaeus Ropac Milan, September 2025. Photo: Roberto Marossi. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London \u00b7 Paris \u00b7 Salzburg \u00b7 Milan \u00b7 Seoul.<\/p>\n

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Palazzo Belgioioso interior, Milan. Photo: Adriano Mura. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London \u00b7 Paris \u00b7 Salzburg \u00b7 Milan \u00b7 Seoul. <\/p>\n

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Palazzo Belgioioso interior, Milan. Photo: Adriano Mura. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London \u00b7 Paris \u00b7 Salzburg \u00b7 Milan \u00b7 Seoul.<\/p>\n

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Georg Baselitz and Lucio Fontana, L\u2019aurore viene, installation view at Thaddaeus Ropac Milan, September 2025. Photo: Roberto Marossi. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London \u00b7 Paris \u00b7 Salzburg \u00b7 Milan \u00b7 Seoul.<\/p>\n

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Rosa riposa , 2019. \u00a9 Georg Baselitz. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery,London \u00b7 Paris \u00b7 Salzburg \u00b7 Milan \u00b7 Seoul. Photo: Jochen Littkemann. <\/p>\n

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Concetto spaziale, Forma , 1957. \u00a9 Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milano, by SIAE 2025. <\/p>\n

Ropac\u2019s new contemporary-art venue takes over two grand rooms of the 1781 neoclassical palazzo, opposite the former home of Italian poet and novelist Alessandro Manzoni. With its original terrazzo floors and tall windows and baroque details \u2014\u00a0the antique cornicing is particularly noteworthy \u2014 the space is the seventh in Ropac\u2019s network of exhibition spaces. Ropac hired Milanese architect Umberto Dubini and interior designer Melzi d\u2019Eril to oversee the refresh, working off a 1991 restoration that spans 280 sqm on the first floor. New director Elena Bonanno di Linguaglossa has allowed sculpture to spill into the public square outside. Her inaugural exhibition L\u2019arte viene, on display until 21 November, features paintings and sculptures by Georg Baselitz and a selection of works created by Lucio Fontana in the 1930s to 1960s \u2014 including pieces loaned from Fondazione Lucio Fontana.<\/p>\n

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Georg Baselitz and Lucio Fontana, L\u2019aurore viene, installation view at Thaddaeus Ropac Milan, September 2025. Photo: Roberto Marossi. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London \u00b7 Paris \u00b7 Salzburg \u00b7 Milan \u00b7 Seoul.<\/p>\n

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Palazzo Belgioioso interior, Milan. Photo: Adriano Mura. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London \u00b7 Paris \u00b7 Salzburg \u00b7 Milan \u00b7 Seoul.<\/p>\n

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Palazzo Belgioioso, Milan. Photo: Adriano Mura.<\/p>\n

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\nDavid Bowie\u2019s personal archive opens to the public<\/a>
\nA new event throws a spotlight on collage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite opening galleries consistently in art centres like London, Paris and Seoul, Thaddaeus Ropac suspected he could not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[72876,59196,6225,6485,6486,1120,96,72877,72878,42329,72879,72880,72881,72882,72883,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-160167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art-galleries","9":"tag-art-gallery","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-artsanddesign","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-italian-art","16":"tag-italian-gallery","17":"tag-milan","18":"tag-milan-art","19":"tag-milan-galleries","20":"tag-milan-gallery","21":"tag-palazzo-belgioioso","22":"tag-thaddaeus-ropac","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}