Art Fairs
PRESS RELEASE
From February 6, 2026 to February 8, 2026

Artefiera Bologna 2026

ARTE FIERA
6-8 February 2026
Quartiere Fieristico di Bologna
PAD26 A06
PAD25 B35 (prospettiva)

In its fortieth year of activity, Mazzoleni returns to Arte Fiera Bologna, a fair that has always held a central place in the gallery’s exhibition programme thanks to its role as a privileged meeting point for Italian collectors. For this edition, the gallery presents a curatorial itinerary that brings together masters of the post-war period — the historical core of the gallery’s identity — with some of the most compelling contemporary practices that the gallery has increasingly supported over the past decade.

The presentation opens with two emblematic works of Italian Informal art: a 1958 piece by Tancredi Parmeggiani and a 1959 canvas by Piero Dorazio. These are accompanied by works by Carla Accardi, Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani, Mario Schifano and Gianfranco Zappettini, followed by sculptures by Salvatore Astore and Nunzio, tracing a coherent trajectory accross the various directions of material and spatial experimentations in the post-war period.

 

Andrea Francolino, b. 1979
Vaso Infinito, 2025
Pots and terracotta fragments
42.5 x 200 cm - - 16 3/4 x 78 3/4 in
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Marinella Senatore, 1977
Opera!, 2023
Collage and gold leaf on wood panel
27 x 21.5 cm each
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The section dedicated to contemporary voices features new works by Andrea Francolino, including Vaso Infinito, realised in terracotta during his residency at the Museo Carlo Zauli in 2025, alongside David Reimondo’s new work Hand in Progress in glazed ceramic, and a large gold‑leaf panel polyptych in collage by Marinella Senatore.

Rebecca Moccia, b. 1992
Ancestors Syndrome, 2025
Coated aluminum
Variable dimensions
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The gallery is also presenting a special project within the new Prospettiva section, curated by Michele D’Aurizio and dedicated to the creative research of emerging generations. Participation in Prospettiva is by invitation only, and Rebecca Moccia has been selected for this edition.

The works presented in the solo booth belong to a recent body of research that continues the artist’s exploration of the materiality of contemporary emotional distress.

Ancestors Syndrome is a patinated aluminium cast produced without a mould, taking shape from a geological map of Mount Vesuvius and from the memory of the volcano’s last eruption in 1944, which affected the artist’s grandmother. Conceived as a fragmentary and mobile form, the work reflects on the involuntary transmission of emotional, social and cultural conditions. Previously exhibited in a different configuration for Panorama Italics, Pozzuoli 2025, curated by Chiara Parisi, the piece will play a central role in the artist’s solo exhibition scheduled for summer 2026 at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin.

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Complemeting the installation in Bologna is a series of photographs taken with an anamorphic lens on the volcano by retracing the path of the 1944 lava flow, presented for the first time in Prospettiva. This type of lens, originally developed for military applications and later for cinema to expand the human field of vision, captures a high quantity of information, resulting in compressed and distorted imagery.

 

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