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MACHISMO creates a dialogue between selected sculptures from the Santarelli Collection and thirteen contemporary male artists across generations from Belgium, Italy, India, the Netherlands, USA and the UK, who in different ways interrogate and critique iconographies of machismo. The media of film, sound, painting, performance and sculpture in works by Bas Jan Ader, Marcel Broodthaers, Gino De Dominicis, Jeff Gibbons, Emiliano Maggi, Michael O’Mahony, Luigi Ontani, Cesare Pietroiusti, Gianni Politi, Robert Rauschenberg, Prem Sahib, Raja Ram Sharma and Franco Troiani, experienced in juxtaposition with the ancient sculptures, creates new dialogues with the construct of machismo.


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Poster 70x100cm, offset, orange and silver pantone, glossy foil

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Invitation, A5, orange and silver pantone, glossy foil

Installation view of MACHISMO, Villa Lontana, 25 May - 20 July 2019.

Installation view of MACHISMO.

Luigi Ontani, ‘FaunOlimpo’,1975. Franco Troiani, ‘San Sebastiano’,1985. Trajan, II-IV century AD; Porphyry tondo, XIX century.

Prem Sahib, ‘Watch Queen (Variegated) II’, 2017. Jeff Gibbons, ‘Uccello’, 2018; ‘Homogenised rose’, 2018. Headless naked statue of emperor or deity, early II century AD; Prometheus, XVI century AD.

Luigi Ontani, ‘FaunOlimpo’, 1975. Franco Troiani, ‘San Sebastiano’,1985. Porphyry tondo, XIX century; Trajan, II-IV century AD. Robert Rauschenberg, ‘Open Score’, 1966. Prem Sahib, ‘Stray I’, 2013.

Jeff Gibbons, ‘Fruit’, 2018; ‘Blooming’, 2019; ‘Abstract Expressionism, 7 Manly Roses’, 2018; ‘COME and see’, 2018; ‘Young dove’, 2017. Dionysus, III century AD.

Michael O’Mahony, ‘Arsenal Kits 1989-2015’, 2015-2019.

Gianni Politi, ‘Cucinare l'oro (2012)’, 2017-2018, ‘Un anno a San Lorenzo (2013)’, 2017-2018

Raja Ram Sharma, ‘Swaroop’, [Reflection], 2017; ’Sambhand’, [Relationship], 2019. Luigi Ontani, ‘EmeritoHanuman’, 2015-2016. Cockerels, XVIII century AD.

Emiliano Maggi, ‘Balletducourtmorningexercises’, 2018-2019; ‘The King’, 2018.

Gino De Dominicis, ‘Cubo Invisibile’, 1967; ‘La Risata’, 1971.

Gino De Dominicis, ‘Senza titolo?’, 1972; ’Senza titolo (Naso)’, c. 1989.

XIX century Indian miniature paintings from the Jaipur school. Cesare Pietroiusti, ‘Nove poesie (1976-2015)', 2019. Jeff Gibbons, ‘Poppy Land’, 2018.

Jeff Gibbons, ‘Poppy Land’, 2018; ‘Rule Britannia’, 2018.

Marcel Broodthaers, ‘Interview with a cat’, 1970.

Posters of MACHISMO

MACHISMO
42x29,7cm, 96 pages, Offset, Orange and Silver Pantone, Stapled

MICHAEL O'MAHONY
Saturday 25 May 2019 — 7:30pm
Villa Lontana

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Michael O'Mahony performing at Villa Lontana for the exhibition opening of MACHISMO 

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Michael O'Mahony

Dreams & Thoughts, 2019
Artist editions, A5, 40 pag, digital print

TOMASO BINGA
Afose Poesie e... Afasie
Friday 7 June 2019 — 7:30pm
Villa Lontana

Tomaso Binga’s action of taking a man’s name happened at a time when radical art and experimental art exhibitions were basically the preserve of men. In fact, looking through the lists of exhibitions of European and American Conceptual art between the ‘60s and ‘70s, the numbers of women included are ludicrously small. Binga’s use of a male pseudonym parodies the cultural privileges reserved for men, but also ridicules it, by the fact of her inclusion.

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Tomaso Binga performing Afose Poesie e... Afasie (2019) at Villa Lontana

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Tomaso Binga 

Altri Colori
Multiple, A3, offset, 350gr uncoated paper

CESARE PIETROIUSTI
La Pagina Bianca
Performance by Cesare Pietroiusti and Giuseppe Garrera
Monday 8 July 2019 — 7:30pm
Circolo Canottieri Aniene, Salone sociale
Roma

Giuseppe Garrera’s reading of Cesare Pietroiusti's love poem La Pagina Bianca follows an esoteric analysis, it is intimate and embarrassingly masculine. It echoes the grand literary tradition of Petrarch and Leopardi. His is a philological reading, based on variants banned from schools and academic anthologies due to the use of sexually explicit language, so it remains to be transmitted orally and by clandestine means.

Cesare Pietroiusti and Giuseppe Garrera performing La Pagina Bianca at Circolo Canottieri Aniene, Roma

Salone Sociale of Circolo Canottieri Aniene, Roma

Cesare Pietroiusti and Giuseppe Garrera performing La Pagina Bianca at Circolo Canottieri Aniene, Roma

Cesare Pietroiusti and Giuseppe Garrera performing La Pagina Bianca at Circolo Canottieri Aniene, Roma

Notes of La Pagina Bianca 

Massimo Piersanti, Cesare Pietroiusti, Giuseppe Garrera at Circolo Canottieri Aniene, Roma

Nove Poesie (1976 – 2015)
Artist editions, 10,5x18cm, 20 pag, offset, 80gr uncoated paper

La Pagina Bianca (2012)
Artist edition, 35x35cm, offset, 350gr uncoated paper

VILLA LONTANA

OPEN AIR SCREENING
Comizi d'Amore (1965) by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Thursday 18 July 2019 — 7:30pm
Villa Lontana's garden

Made in 1965, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s feature length documentary film Comizi d’Amore presents Italians attitudes to sexual mores. Pasolini holds a microphone and speaks directly with working class and middle class people from the North and the South of Italy with different levels of education. The film begins when he asks children where babies come from. He questions women about their relations to men, and vice versa; whether they see themselves as equals, their views on homosexuality and heterosexuality, whether virginity matters, if divorce should be legalised and the brothels closed.

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Open air screening of Comizi d'Amore (1965) by Pier Paolo Pasolini in Villa Lontana's garden

MACHISMO creates a dialogue between selected sculptures from the Santarelli Collection and thirteen contemporary male artists across generations from Belgium, Italy, India, the Netherlands, USA and the UK, who in different ways interrogate and critique iconographies of machismo. The media of film, sound, painting, performance and sculpture in works by Bas Jan Ader, Marcel Broodthaers, Gino De Dominicis, Jeff Gibbons, Emiliano Maggi, Michael O’Mahony, Luigi Ontani, Cesare Pietroiusti, Gianni Politi, Robert Rauschenberg, Prem Sahib, Raja Ram Sharma and Franco Troiani, experienced in juxtaposition with the ancient sculptures, creates new dialogues with the construct of machismo.


Download Press Release

VILLA LONTANA

Poster 70x100cm, offset, orange and silver pantone, glossy foil

VILLA LONTANA

Invitation, A5, orange and silver pantone, glossy foil

Installation view of MACHISMO, Villa Lontana, 25 May - 20 July 2019.

Installation view of MACHISMO.

Luigi Ontani, ‘FaunOlimpo’,1975. Franco Troiani, ‘San Sebastiano’,1985. Trajan, II-IV century AD; Porphyry tondo, XIX century.

Prem Sahib, ‘Watch Queen (Variegated) II’, 2017. Jeff Gibbons, ‘Uccello’, 2018; ‘Homogenised rose’, 2018. Headless naked statue of emperor or deity, early II century AD; Prometheus, XVI century AD.

Luigi Ontani, ‘FaunOlimpo’, 1975. Franco Troiani, ‘San Sebastiano’,1985. Porphyry tondo, XIX century; Trajan, II-IV century AD. Robert Rauschenberg, ‘Open Score’, 1966. Prem Sahib, ‘Stray I’, 2013.

Jeff Gibbons, ‘Fruit’, 2018; ‘Blooming’, 2019; ‘Abstract Expressionism, 7 Manly Roses’, 2018; ‘COME and see’, 2018; ‘Young dove’, 2017. Dionysus, III century AD.

Michael O’Mahony, ‘Arsenal Kits 1989-2015’, 2015-2019.

Gianni Politi, ‘Cucinare l'oro (2012)’, 2017-2018, ‘Un anno a San Lorenzo (2013)’, 2017-2018

Raja Ram Sharma, ‘Swaroop’, [Reflection], 2017; ’Sambhand’, [Relationship], 2019. Luigi Ontani, ‘EmeritoHanuman’, 2015-2016. Cockerels, XVIII century AD.

Emiliano Maggi, ‘Balletducourtmorningexercises’, 2018-2019; ‘The King’, 2018.

Gino De Dominicis, ‘Cubo Invisibile’, 1967; ‘La Risata’, 1971.

Gino De Dominicis, ‘Senza titolo?’, 1972; ’Senza titolo (Naso)’, c. 1989.

XIX century Indian miniature paintings from the Jaipur school. Cesare Pietroiusti, ‘Nove poesie (1976-2015)', 2019. Jeff Gibbons, ‘Poppy Land’, 2018.

Jeff Gibbons, ‘Poppy Land’, 2018; ‘Rule Britannia’, 2018.

Marcel Broodthaers, ‘Interview with a cat’, 1970.

Posters of MACHISMO

MACHISMO
42x29,7cm, 96 pages, Offset, Orange and Silver Pantone, Stapled

MICHAEL O'MAHONY
Saturday 25 May 2019 — 7:30pm
Villa Lontana

VILLA LONTANA

Michael O'Mahony performing at Villa Lontana for the exhibition opening of MACHISMO 

VILLA LONTANA

Michael O'Mahony

Dreams & Thoughts, 2019
Artist editions, A5, 40 pag, digital print

TOMASO BINGA
Afose Poesie e... Afasie
Friday 7 June 2019 — 7:30pm
Villa Lontana

Tomaso Binga’s action of taking a man’s name happened at a time when radical art and experimental art exhibitions were basically the preserve of men. In fact, looking through the lists of exhibitions of European and American Conceptual art between the ‘60s and ‘70s, the numbers of women included are ludicrously small. Binga’s use of a male pseudonym parodies the cultural privileges reserved for men, but also ridicules it, by the fact of her inclusion.

VILLA LONTANA

Tomaso Binga performing Afose Poesie e... Afasie (2019) at Villa Lontana

VILLA LONTANA

Tomaso Binga 

Altri Colori
Multiple, A3, offset, 350gr uncoated paper

CESARE PIETROIUSTI
La Pagina Bianca
Performance by Cesare Pietroiusti and Giuseppe Garrera
Monday 8 July 2019 — 7:30pm
Circolo Canottieri Aniene, Salone sociale
Roma

Giuseppe Garrera’s reading of Cesare Pietroiusti's love poem La Pagina Bianca follows an esoteric analysis, it is intimate and embarrassingly masculine. It echoes the grand literary tradition of Petrarch and Leopardi. His is a philological reading, based on variants banned from schools and academic anthologies due to the use of sexually explicit language, so it remains to be transmitted orally and by clandestine means.

Cesare Pietroiusti and Giuseppe Garrera performing La Pagina Bianca at Circolo Canottieri Aniene, Roma

Salone Sociale of Circolo Canottieri Aniene, Roma

Cesare Pietroiusti and Giuseppe Garrera performing La Pagina Bianca at Circolo Canottieri Aniene, Roma

Cesare Pietroiusti and Giuseppe Garrera performing La Pagina Bianca at Circolo Canottieri Aniene, Roma

Notes of La Pagina Bianca 

Massimo Piersanti, Cesare Pietroiusti, Giuseppe Garrera at Circolo Canottieri Aniene, Roma

Nove Poesie (1976 – 2015)
Artist editions, 10,5x18cm, 20 pag, offset, 80gr uncoated paper

La Pagina Bianca (2012)
Artist edition, 35x35cm, offset, 350gr uncoated paper

VILLA LONTANA

OPEN AIR SCREENING
Comizi d'Amore (1965) by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Thursday 18 July 2019 — 7:30pm
Villa Lontana's garden

Made in 1965, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s feature length documentary film Comizi d’Amore presents Italians attitudes to sexual mores. Pasolini holds a microphone and speaks directly with working class and middle class people from the North and the South of Italy with different levels of education. The film begins when he asks children where babies come from. He questions women about their relations to men, and vice versa; whether they see themselves as equals, their views on homosexuality and heterosexuality, whether virginity matters, if divorce should be legalised and the brothels closed.

VILLA LONTANA

Open air screening of Comizi d'Amore (1965) by Pier Paolo Pasolini in Villa Lontana's garden