Aldo Mondino
Gerusalemme, 1988
Bronze; 164 × 110 cm
ART
Aldo Mondino (Turin 1938 – Milan 2005) moved through surrealism, pop and conceptual art without ever belonging to a movement, with irony and wordplay. His work is looked after by the Archivio Aldo Mondino, which preserves and studies it.
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The work
Gerusalemme (Jerusalem) was an important stage in Mondino's artistic path, because it led him to rediscover the Jewish roots of his mother's family, bringing to light a world and a tradition he possessed only inwardly and which, from then on, he could tell through his art with his usual irony. The form and meaning of Mondino's sculptures are often generated and shaped by the artist's short-sightedness: unable to recognise the outline of objects from afar, he often ends up overturning them, giving life to unique and somehow magical works. During his stay in Jerusalem he approaches the Western Wall and his gaze lingers on a “strange plant with black flowers”. Only when he comes closer does he discover that those flowers are in fact hats hung on a palm tree by some rabbis. Back in Italy he decides to make Gerusalemme, a bronze sculpture which, drawing also on certain Dadaist influences, manages to bring Judaism to life through everyday images of clothes and hats, thus expressing his freedom even before religion.
Exhibitions
- «Aldo Mondino. Regole per l'inganno», BUILDING, Milan, curated by Alberto Fiz, 5 April – 17 June 2023
- «Aldo Mondino. Impertinenze a Palazzo», Palazzo Boncompagni, Bologna, 30 January – 10 April 2023
- «Aldo Mondino. Moderno, postmoderno, contemporaneo», Museo d'arte contemporanea Villa Croce, Palazzo della Meridiana; site-specific installations: Palazzo Ducale, Palazzo Rosso, Palazzo Bianco, Palazzo Reale, Casa di Colombo, Acquario di Genova, Genoa, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa, 24 September – 27 November 2016
- «Rules for illusions. Part II», Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin, 4 July – 19 September 2015
- «Aldo Mondino: nomade a Milano», Fondazione Mudima, Milan, curated by Gianluca Ranzi and Achille Bonito Oliva, 5 June – 19 July 2013
- «Aldo Mondino Nuova Antologia», Galleria M&D Arte, Gorgonzola (MI), 2 April – 6 May 2011
- «Aldo Mondino Scultore», Piazza del Duomo and Chiesa di Sant'Agostino, Pietrasanta (LU), curated by Valerio Dehò, 12 September – 12 December 2010
Bibliography
- A. Tosetti, F. Gualdoni, M. Gazzotti, Aldo Mondino Nuova Antologia, exhibition catalogue (Gorgonzola, Galleria M&D Arte, 2 April – 6 May 2011), M&D Arte, Gorgonzola 2011
- V. Dehò (ed.), Aldo Mondino Scultore, exhibition catalogue (Pietrasanta, Piazza del Duomo and Chiesa di Sant'Agostino, 12 September – 12 December 2010), Allemandi & C., Turin 2010
Gerusalemme at the exhibition «Aldo Mondino Scultore», Pietrasanta, 2010
Gerusalemme, detail, at the exhibition «Rules for illusions. Part II», Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin, 2015
Design for Gerusalemme, 1989, mixed media on card, 50 × 40 cm
Gerusalemme and Serra (2004, oil on linoleum, glass and iron, 198 × 130 cm) at the exhibition «Aldo Mondino. Impertinenze a Palazzo», Palazzo Boncompagni, Bologna, 30 January – 10 April 2023
Aldo Mondino at the Vaghi foundry in Origgio (VA) with Gerusalemme
Gerusalemme at the exhibition «Aldo Mondino. Moderno, postmoderno, contemporaneo», Palazzo della Meridiana, Genoa, 2016
Study for Gerusalemme, 1989, mixed media on card
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