The AddressThe Address is happy to announce the opening of ‘Mi fa pensare a…’ a joint exhibition by artists Marion Baruch (Timisoara, 1929) and Leonardo Meoni (Firenze, 1994).
The exhibition brings two artistic generations into dialogue through the encounter between Marion Baruch and Leonardo Meoni. Starting from a selection of artworks produced by Marion Baruch over the last fifteen years, the exhibition unfolds as an open exchange with previously unseen works by Meoni, conceived as both a response to and an investigation of her practice.
The project grows out of a process of observation and abstraction:
Meoni approaches Baruch’s work by identifying its formal tensions and compositional principles, transforming them into an independent field of research. What emerges is a dialogue in which forms, presences and absences, solids and voids arrange themselves in space like forces in balance, activating a game of gravity and suspension that points back to the most essential dimension of painting. From the encounter between the two artists, a dynamic and poetic force emerges: an interweaving of perspectives in which conceptual language becomes a shared ground for experimentation. The artworks invite the viewer into a perceptual experience, where forms seem to surface and shift under the gaze, opening up a mental space for vision and imagination. 'Mi fa pensare a…' marks Marion Baruch and Leonardo Meoni’s third project with The Address gallery.
Marion Baruch (b.1929) lives and works in Gallarate, Italy.
Enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest, she found refuge in Israel in 1949 where she continued her studies at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. In 1954 he moved to Rome where he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts.
In addition to being exhibited at international institutions such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Bucharest), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Center for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv-Yafo) and many others; her works are also found in the collections of the Kunstmuseum Luzern, the Mamco (Geneva), the Art Collection Roche (Basel), the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Triennale (Milan), the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (Rome), Museo Novecento (Florence), MAMbo (Bologna), the Museion (Bolzano), the Gröninger Museum (Olanda), the Turner Contemporary (Margate), the Fri-Art Kunsthalle (Freiburg, Switzerland) and the MA*GA (Gallarate).
Leonardo Meoni (b.1994) lives and works between NYC and Prato, Italy.
He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence and Accademia di Belle Arti of Brera. Recent exhibitions include:
Felt, Velvet, Soot, Gypsum, Engine Oil, Bortolamy Gallery, New York (2025); I used to be a Mountain, Spazio Amanita, New York (2025); Gli altri colori purtroppo, sono tutti caduti, Museo Stefano Bardini in Florence (2024), Uncertain Weavings, The Address, Brescia (2023).
‘Ectoplasm (664Z)’
2025
Mixed media on linen
50 x 60 x 4,5 cm
Hanna Antonsson
‘Auto wing 20’
2026
Taxidermy Jackdaw wings, car tire, seat belt, servo motors, arduino
Variable dimensions
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Marion Baruch (b.1929) lives and works in Gallarate, Italy.
Enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest, she found refuge in Israel in 1949 where she continued her studies at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. In 1954 he moved to Rome where he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts.
In addition to being exhibited at international institutions such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Bucharest), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Center for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv-Yafo) and many others; her works are also found in the collections of the Kunstmuseum Luzern, the Mamco (Geneva), the Art Collection Roche (Basel), the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Triennale (Milan), the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (Rome), Museo Novecento (Florence), MAMbo (Bologna), the Museion (Bolzano), the Gröninger Museum (Olanda), the Turner Contemporary (Margate), the Fri-Art Kunsthalle (Freiburg, Switzerland) and the MA*GA (Gallarate).
Leonardo Meoni (b.1994) lives and works between NYC and Prato, Italy.
He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence and Accademia di Belle Arti of Brera. Recent exhibitions include:
Felt, Velvet, Soot, Gypsum, Engine Oil, Bortolamy Gallery, New York (2025); I used to be a Mountain, Spazio Amanita, New York (2025); Gli altri colori purtroppo, sono tutti caduti, Museo Stefano Bardini in Florence (2024), Uncertain Weavings, The Address, Brescia (2023).
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