BIAF 2022

Robilant+Voena is pleased to be participating in the XXXII Florence Biennale, with 'A Tribute to Tuscany: From the Middle Ages in Florence to the Baroque in Siena'. We will be presenting works from across six centuries that pay homage to the geographical and cultural region that was the epicentre of Renaissance innovation and which has provided a unique artistic milieu for generations of artists. At the centre of the display, a mesmerising Crucifixion by Giovanni del Biondo, executed around 1360, showcases the artist’s mastery of detailed realism and evocation of pathos. This work, on public display for the first time since 1945, displays Del Biondo’s early engagement with Gothic sensibilities.

The Crucifixion is juxtaposed with two works from the twentieth century, a Paesaggio (Landscape) by Giorgio Morandi and a bronze Concetto Spaziale, Natura by Lucio Fontana. These works, made six centuries after Del Biondo’s masterpiece, underline the enduring power of the Tuscan region as a constant thread throughout Italian art history, and demonstrate the dialogue across the ages.