ROBERTO BARNI

Roberto Barni (Pistoia, 30 September 1939) is an Italian painter and sculptor.

His works are found in the Daniel Spoerri Garden in Seggiano, the Cavallaccio RC10 complex in Florence, in Pistoia’s Piazzetta dell'Ortaggio, Villa Celle near Pistoia, and Groningen, the Netherlands.

He is considered one of the exponents of the Pittura Colta movement conceived by the critic Italo Mussa in the 1980s.

In 1992-93, he participated in the exhibition “The Artist and the Book in the Twentieth Century in Italy” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which also included such artists as Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Giorgio de Chirico, Renato Guttuso, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti , Amedeo Modigliani, Emilio Vedova, and others.

The group show Fermentazioni, with Antonino Bove, Giuseppe Chiari, Omar Galliani, and Marco Nereo Rotelli, dates to 2000. It was curated by Giandomenico Semeraro at Lucca’s Palazzo Ducale. A catalog with an introduction by Giancarlo Politi was published for the occasion. In 2008, Barni participated in the exhibition “Estetika. Forma & segno. Da Renoir a de Chirico” in Arona. Among the works included were those by, among others, Georges Braque, Mark Chagall, Carlo Carrà, Salvador Dalí, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Andy Warhol. In 2015, he was part of the small-format exhibition “Vitamine. Tavolette energetiche”, promoted by the Carlo Palli Archives with a catalog edited by Laura Monaldi and published by Polistampa. Exhibitions with the same name were also held at the Novecento Museum, GAMC Viareggio, the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, and in 2016, at Villa Caruso in Lastra a Signa, the Poets’ Woods in Dolcè, and Alberto Moretti Art Space/Polis description.

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