From Thursday 1st May to Monday 2nd June, the exhibition “Bruno Zoppetti. Studi per una Crocifissione” will take place the Atelier del Tadini in via Giorgio Oprandi in Lovere.

The exhibition will be open at the following times:
– from Tuesday to Saturday: 16:00-19:00;
– Sundays and holidays: 10:00-12:00/15:00-19:00.

Bruno Zoppetti. Studi per una Crocifissione is the title of the solo exhibition that will be open on Wednesday 30th April at 17:00 at the Atelier of Tadini. Curated by Marco Albertario, the exhibition brings together a selection of unpublished sketches made by Zoppetti in preparation for the Crucifix of Pisogne and the Christ of the miners, giving the public back the heart of his research path.

The theme of the Crucifixion, understood as a representation of universal pain, runs through the artist’s entire recent production. A profound reflection, spiritual and formal at the same time, which found its first complete expression in the summer of 2024 with the presentation of the large canvas in the church frescoed by Romanino in Pisogne. Behind that realization, however, there is a long preparatory work, never exhibited until now, which is finally being valorized today.

The exhibition develops as a close dialogue between the preparatory studies and the figurative sources that inspired them: from the reinterpretation of the great masters of the past to the translation, in a contemporary key, of an ancient and powerfully symbolic iconography. An emblematic example is the Polyptych of the Miners, an unpublished work that places Christ at the center as an emblem of shared suffering, alongside the Mother of Gaza, a sorrowful figure who alludes to the tragedies of the present.

Zoppetti thus constructs a visual narrative that invites reflection on the meaning of Redemption today, in a world crossed by wounds, but still capable of beauty and redemption. The exhibition catalog is enriched by critical texts by Pierluigi Lanfranchi, professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Aix-Marseille, and by Marco Albertario himself.

Text and cover image provided by Accademia Tadini