To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, Luigi Ontani exhibits a site-specific installation featuring a life-size ceramic statue and his photograph print ‘Pastifero’. The statue references  Italian culture and history, yet in a surreal and enigmatic fashion, merging a toy soldier and a military monument, a whimsical mannequin and a god to be worshipped.

Luigi Ontani’s third exhibition at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Perentorio, presents viewers with a comprehensive survey of the artist’s work, demonstrating his mastery of a range of artistic media and the singularity of his subject matter. Typical of Ontani, the artist acts as protagonist in almost all of the works on display, dressing in the clothes of legendary figures from history, religion and literature. The name ‘Perentorio’ (peremptory, assertive, absolute) makes reference to Ontani’s relative vanity of subject, but also offers a mocking reference to the vulnerability of historical events and figures in the face of the creative and playful license of the artist.

Meaning ‘The Love of Heroes’, Luigi Ontani’s first exhibition at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill is a study of the idea of true heroism and its connection with love, as interpreted in both sophisticated literary culture and popular traditions. Whether it be a ceramic sculpture of Garibaldi or an image of Ontani as Shivaji, the warrior-king revered as a god in Western India, Eros appears and disappears, always ambiguous, often disguised, as a source - if not the source - of the true heroic act.

A solo show by Luigi Ontani at Museo Capodimonte in Naples. The show present 32 works by the artists (Photos, ceramics, marbles) installed in dialogue between the collection and furniture of the museum.

MAMbo dedicates to Luigi Ontani, in his hometown, an important retrospective with a rich selection of about two hundred works, from the sixties until today and some new works especially produced for the occasion.

The Genthara exhibition illustrates Ontani's whole career on the basis of photos, drawings, sculptures, works in glass and ceramics, more than two hundred of his works from 1967 through 2003.