Inaugurated in Firenze Brancacci Art Gallery a gallery ofcontemporary art focused in the first on bronze sculpture, on figurative painting and on experimental and innovative languages. Promotes international artists, established and emerging. The identity of the gallery is based on historical roots, given the proximity to the church of Santa Maria Del Carmine, inside which stands the Brancacci Chapel, flourished in that Florence in which Masaccio, Masolino and Filippino work on the extraordinary cycle of frescoes, as well as a very high example of Renaissance art.
The founders of Brancacci Art Gallery are three solid Florentine entrepreneurs: Jacopo Ciglia of Eyelash&Carrai Artistic Foundry and Patrick Lari and Claudio Runs of the historic company badari.
In the fifteenth century Florence was the center of the world, the figures of the intellectual and the Florentine merchant are perfectly embodied by great characters who, from the Tuscan city they move with ease to Northern Europe and Asia, in all the capitals of the then known world, to maintain commercial and cultural relationships. Here is Brancacci Art Gallery, freely inspired by the golden age in which he feels, ideally, tied by a fil rouge, intends to enhance the characteristics of tradition and internationality, choosing an artistic line that recognizes and defines itself in the universality of Florence as the "center of the world", a welcoming reality, passes down, unites, innovate and look ahead. Mission pursued in today's way, with a reference to the famous expression used by Giorgio Vasari in Quickly, the first modern collection of artistic biographies of 1550 in which the first great historiographer lists the innovations introduced into the artistic language by the painters of Renaissance Florence. On this basis, Brancacci Art Gallery offers contemporary art for multifaceted and varied collecting, whose distinctive character is to be seen in a quality offering, with a clear attention to tradition and an eye to the future.
The setup and the artists
Brancacci Art Gallery, on the occasion of the opening, presents a sort of preview of what will be the tunnel line, the research it intends to carry out and the consequent proposal, anticipating what the themes will be, the subjects and future choices: the focus is naturally on bronze sculpture, but painting also represents an area of strong interest. To name a few, Brancacci Art Gallery presents the works of international artists, quali: Italian sculptors Antonio Signorini, Gianfranco Meggiato and Flavio Lucchini, the Mexican sculptor Gustavo Aceves, the Italian sculptor and painter Antonio Nocera, the Welsh sculptor Joanna Mall-Davies, the English sculptor Susan Leyland, the French sculptor Laura Boulay, the Russian painter Alesterra to P Pan, the Danish sculptor Jørgen Haugen Sørensen, the Danish sculptor Eli Benveniste, the Iraqi painter Official Al Kafaji,the Spanish painter Evita Andùjar, Italian painters Giacomo Piussi, Enrico Versari and Fabio Inverni.
The art historian completes the Brancacci Art Gallery team, critic and curator Ilaria Magni, who is the director of the gallery, and the art historian and communication expert Margherita Banchi.
BRANCACCI ART GALLERY, Piazza del Carmine 8/R – Florence
HOURS: (from 18 April 2023) Tuesday to Saturday hours 15:30-19:30 or by appointment
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