From Oct. 3, 2024 to March 16, 2025, the rooms of Palazzo Pallavicini hosted for the first time ever in Bologna an exhibition dedicated to Antonio Ligabue, a great Italian expressionist painter (Zurich, Dec. 18, 1899 – Gualtieri, May 27, 1965).
Organized and produced by Chiara Campagnoli, Deborah Petroni and Rubens Fogacci of Pallavicini s.r.l., together with Art Direction and curatorship by WeAreBeside, produced in collaboration with SM.Art and sponsored by Augusto Agosta Tota Foundation for Antonio Ligabue, with texts by Francesca Bogliolo.
The exhibition divided in the 7 rooms, of Palazzo Pallavicini in Bologna, told with more than 120 works, (including 81 paintings, 14 sculptures, 17 drawings and 15 engravings) the life, psyche and tormented history of this fascinating Artist.
On display, in an excursus of his career, were some of his finest masterpieces and it was possible to admire as many as 12 self-portraits and 7 tigers with gaping jaws, as well as agile leopards, birds of prey snatching prey or struggling for survival, and powerful lions-a veritable jungle of raw, violent life.
