In the great halls of the Gallerie d’Italia in Milan beauty is always on the move, from Tiepolo to the most famous Italian artists of the 1980s.

And currently “Painting is back” with Mimmo Paladino, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Franco Angeli, Mario Schifano and many other artists selected and exhibited by the curator of the Intesa Sanpaolo Contemporary Art collections Luca Massimo Barbero: artworks representative of a lifestyle, of a hedonistic season that became a cultural workshop.  

A showcase of 57 artworks, the most important of which come from the collection of Stefano D’Ercole, a renowned Roman lawyer whose collection mostly consists of paintings by the key representatives of Italian Transavanguardia.

Artworks that have never been publicly displayed, reflective of years of great social change, when design, fashion, architecture, economy, ideas and feelings mixed together, opening the doors to a great cultural ferment translating and unravelling in the figurations and materials of these works.

Opening image: Enzo Cucchi, Le stimmate, 1980, oil on canvas, 135 x 208 cm, Collezione D'Ercole, Rome. Photo © Pedrini Photography, Zurich