Giorgio Griffa’s most recent exhibition at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill focuses on the connection between his paintings from the 1980s and the present. The exhibition displays work from the 1980s and 1990s alongside those created over the last decade, revealing the continued presence of joyful line and vibrant colour that has marked the last 50 years of Griffa’s paintings, and which diverges from the linear geometry of his early work. 

Gianni Politi’s latest exhibition at Galleria Lorcan O ‘Neill, “Ruins and Revelations,” takes its title from Politi’s unique exploration into the history of his artistic practice. Digging in the past ‘ruins of his work,’ Politi has discovered the revelation of a new myth contained within, precariously balanced between abstraction and figuration, which he here presents through his most recent paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Through a process of reflection that recalls his earliest inspirations, Politi demonstrates the true maturation of the artist and the often-burdensome discoveries of creative contemplation.

Using a variety of materials from resin to concrete, plaster and stone, Rachel Whiteread transforms familiar materials, domestic objects and their negative spaces into works of haunting beauty which draw the viewer into a state of contemplation over memory and permanence.

Galleria Lorcan O'Neill presents the first solo show of David Dawson at the gallery in Rome. The exhibition features twelve large scale landscape paintings, part of an ongoing body of work created en plein air in the artist's county of Montgomeryshire, Mid Wales. The canvases possess a deeply autobiographical nature, being representative of Dawson's formative childhood years in the country side, and his continued experiences of solitude and connection.

Galleria Lorcan O’Neill presents seven new monumental paintings for a solo exhibition by the German artist Anselm Kiefer. Exploring the subject of islands, a theme which has long fascinated Kiefer, these works explore the experience of isolation, exploration, and the human desire for connection. Drawing from a diverse range of sources, including mythology and literature, Kiefer examines familiar concepts through the powerful symbolism of nature. 

Tracey Emin, Giorgio Griffa, Pietro Ruffo, Kiki Smith, Rachel Whiteread

Since the late 1990s, Ruffo’s practice has examined some of the most pressing social matters of our time, from the legacy of European colonialism and imperialism to the migrant crisis of the past two decades. The Planetary Garden continues Ruffo’s ongoing exploration of humankind’s relationship to the natural world, and of the impact of human activities upon the climate. 

Kiki Smith's exhibition at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill presents new bodies of work, including some of the most complex bronze sculptures of the artist's career. Over the past three decades Smith has explored the philosophical, social and spiritual aspects of human existence through her profound and meditative works. 

In his most recent exhibition at Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Richard Long reflects on the timeless question: are our actions predetermined by fate, or is everything simply left to luck, chaos and our own free will? Two large, circular stone sculptures, the first in white Carrara marble and the second in black Portoro, are situated in contrast to one another on the main floor of the gallery, representing visual effigies of the opposing forces in play. Accompanying canvases magnify this sense of uncertainty, with cracked, frantic strokes creating a sense of contrast and dynamism.

This new exhibition of Giorgio Griffa at Galleria Lorcan O'Neill spans the full breadth of the artist's practice, bringing together highlights from the artist’s three major bodies of work: his minimal canvases of the 70s; his large gestural works from the 80s; and his lively rhythmic paintings from the last decade inspired by modernist poetry and avant-garde music.  

A series of new works provide the basis for Matvey Levenstein’s third exhibition at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, presenting landscapes, portraits, and still-life images painted in and around the artist’s studio on the northern shores of Long Island, New York, between 2016 and 2017. Twilight, standing as an emblem of melancholy and solitude, and the soft, lightly coloured shadows it casts, play powerful roles in these works. Simultaneoulsy, Levenstein's complex compositions endow his new work with a profound sense of suspension and inner reflection. 

The title of this group exhibition, a phrase by Paul Valery which is quoted by Italo Calvino in the notes of his Norton Lecture on "lightness," expresses the idea that to fly, to leave the bounds of gravity, to reach higher and to head for the skies is to expend effort, concentration, and volition. The exhibition features work by Martin Creed, Giorgio Griffa, Anselm Keifer, Richard Long, and Luigi Ontani.

“Danza di Neuroni”, Griffa’s first exhibition at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, was composed entirely of recent work and represented the astonishing burst of creative and intellectual energy which the artist had undergone in the year preceding the exhibition. The works were linked by a series of references to “Il Canone Aureo” (The Golden Mean), the mathematical principle which has been held by many, including Salvador Dalí, as the method through which artistic and architectural perfection can be achieved. 

For his second solo show at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Anselm Kiefer has worked with palm fronds, ferns, dresses, golden seeds, and shards of glass on surfaces to create a new series of paintings. Through an enagement with the texture of the works, Kiefer replicates ash and ruptured landscape in a way that invoke the geological dynamism of a primordial planetary surface. A site specific sculpture created for the gallery's annex adds to Kiefer's "Women of Antiquity" series, depicting a celestial orb resting upon the shoulders of a life size figure.

Meaning “My Age and Your Age and the Age of the World”, Kiefer’s first exhibition at the gallery represents a concurrent investigation of the history of mankind and of Earth. On display are some of Kiefer’s defining and fundamental artistic themes and principles: his fascination with alchemy and the elements; his use of impasto techniques and eclectic materials; his attraction to cosmogonical and mythological symbols; and an emphasis on the spiritual value of such materials and symbols.

Galleria Lorcan O’Neill Roma  presents a show of new sculptures and drawings by Rachel Whiteread. Whiteread is one of the most prominent international artists of her generation. She creates sculptures which investigate architecture, space, absence and memory.  Her works very often explore intimate domestic spaces and household objects bringing to evidence invisible aspects of their ordinary life.  

Griffa’s exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre, London, features a display of works from across the artist’s life and emphasised his belief in the ‘intelligence of painting.’ The artist displays how he allows the essential elements of his process, be it the type of brush or canvas he uses, or the colour dilution of his paint, to influence and form his works. The title of the exhibition, “A Continuous Becoming,” did well to capture his perception of art as an ongoing and organic process, with lines and brushstrokes of the works deliberately cut short to represent a kind of ellipses on the canvas.