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Brun Fine Art is happy to present its Summer exhibition: L’oro e l'infinito

The exhibition brings together works created across distant centuries yet united by a shared aspiration: the search for what lies beyond the visible.

The gold-ground paintings, produced between the second half of the 14th century and the 15th century by masters such as Luca di Tommè, Francesco di Michele, Álvaro Pirez d’Évora, and Tommaso de Vigilia, represent one of the highest achievements of Italian painting between the Late Gothic and the Early Renaissance periods. In these works, gold is not merely a decorative element; it creates a space suspended between matter and transcendence, projecting the image beyond the earthly realm.

Centuries later, artists such as Piero Dorazio, Corrado Cagli, Lucio Fontana, Roberto Crippa, Mario Schifano, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mirko Basaldella, Georges Mathieu, Gio Ponti, Gio Pomodoro, and Giorgio de Chirico engage, through diverse visual languages, with universal themes such as space, light, mystery, and presence. This dialogue is further enriched by the work of ABI, a contemporary brand that employs stone as a material of memory, translating its historical stratification into essential forms.

The comparison is grounded neither in stylistic affinities nor in a contrast between the ancient and the contemporary. Rather, it reveals a continuity of thought: the desire to transcend the limits of representation and materiality in order to give form to the indefinable.

Between the preciousness of gold, the strength of stone, and the essentiality of modern visual language, the exhibition unfolds as a journey spanning more than six centuries of art history, demonstrating how the pursuit of the absolute continues to renew itself across time.

Artists Featured in the Exhibition:

ABI
Alex Katz
Álvaro Pirez d’Évora
Corrado Cagli
Fausto Melotti
Francesco di Michele
Georges Mathieu
Gianfranco Meggiato
Gio Pomodoro
Gio Ponti
Giorgio de Chirico
Luca di Tommè
Lucio Fontana
Mario Schifano
Mariotto di Cristofano
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Michele di Matteo
Mirko Basaldella
Piero Dorazio
Roberto Crippa
Rosario Pulvirenti
Tommaso de Vigilia
Tommaso del Mazza



Brun Fine Art
Via Gesù 17, Milan
Tuesday – Saturday
10:30 AM – 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM – 7:00 PM
The exhibition will be on view through August

Nosbaum Reding | Projects is pleased to announce a new solo exhibition: Money, by Tawan Wattuya.

Through watercolor and oil paint, Tawan Wattuya creates an aesthetics that arouses, excites while colliding with the senses, terrifying viewers, but also tickling them with caustic humor. A graduate of the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts at Silpakorn University, Wattuya has exhibited widely both in Thailand and internationally.
 
Wattuya's portraits and paintings are inspired by real people in the pop culture, whether it be beauty queens, stars and celebrities, politicians, or superheroes from cartoons and films, and of common people from all walks of life he met along his way, as well as records of events, both national and international alike. All these familiar social signifiers are recreated and transformed in a way that they become fluid, shredded, broken, blurred, diminished, expanded, and accentuated. The public icons with strong background stories are presented with divergent perception. Their imageries embedded deeply in popular recognition are altered, though not without familiar traces. These signifiers induce the spectators to envision some signs of truth hidden under watercolor or oil paint brush strokes in expressionist styles.
 
As for his Money series work, Wattuya recreates and vivifies banknotes from all over the world by painting enlarged versions of them in watercolor, preserving the characters of each currency but letting the fluid properties of the watercolor forge new images. The blurriness, ambiguity, and beauty of these metamorphosed banknotes reflect the transformation of the world that is turning these banknotes into mere paper.
 
Wattuya's reproductions of the banknotes also highlight the different identities of each country. What appears in front of you may make you consider what is inside your pocket. In reality, what we assume is valuable today may be worthless tomorrow.
 
From another perspective, the enlarged watercolor banknotes play with the conception of value. Each and every currency which is valued differently according to today's exchange rate is suddenly worth peculiarly equally. When a small banknote in our wallet is transfigured through Wattuya's artistry onto a piece of huge painting paper, it becomes a valuable artwork. The alchemy of different paper values in the real and art world displays his sharp sense of irony, as if the seal and signature of the Treasurer of each banknote are endorsed by Wattuya himself. They are Wattuya's banknotes or, jokingly saying, he is laundering all these banknotes into his artistic treasure.
Wattuya's banknotes are issued to represent aesthetic value in the arts market.

Wutigorn Kongka
(Translated by Pakavadi Veerapasapong)

Money
24.06.2026 - 29.08.2026
This and more exhibitions are to be discovered at the gallery
Nosbaum Reding
4 rue Wiltheim
2733 Luxembourg
Luxembourg

 
Tawan Wattuya, Luxembourg, 100 Francs, 1981, 2026                                     
Money, watercolor on paper, 100 x 200 cm 


Tawan Wattuya, Belgium, 500 Belgian Francs, 1998, 2025
Money, watercolor on paper, 100 x 200 cm

Exhibition on view from 3 June to 14 August 2026

About 40 masterworks by Léon Spilliaert (Ostend 1881 - Brussels 1946) of interiors, still lifes, and self-portrait will be exhibited at the gallery. A climate of silence reigns in Spilliaert’s rooms and interiors, devoid of human presence. He captures the immutability of objects such as bottles and flasks, seashells, a pair of discarded gloves while these objects take on a life of their own.

Exhibition curated by Anne Adriaens-Pannier and Edouard Derom
www.patrickderomgallery.com

Léon Spilliaert, Interior with Green Lampshade  December 1907, private collection.

Dei Bardi Art presents an exceptional pair of Renaissance alabaster columns
at the heart of its focus

This refined pair of all’antica alabaster columns, richly carved with  grotesque ornament, exemplifies the decorative vocabulary associated to Cornelis Floris de Vriendt (1514–1575) and the Antwerp school of the mid-sixteenth century.
Carved in alabaster with warm tonal variations, the columns are animated by scrolling rinceaux, acanthus leaves, masks, and putti entwined in foliage. The subtile relief and fluid composition reveal masterful control of light and shadow, characteristic of the grottesche idiom Floris helped to popularise north of the Alps. Disseminated through his engravings with Hieronymus Cock’s Aux Quatre Vents, Floris’s motifs inspired sculptors across Europe.
The Southern Netherlands were a key centre of alabaster sculpture, distinguished by exceptional refinement and finish, creating works destined  for princely and ecclesiastical patrons. These columns reflect  the Antwerp workshops’ sophistication and distinctive fusion of Italian Renaissance ornament with Northern sensibility.
These columns vividly translate Floris’s engraved grotesques into sculptural form. Their all’antica composition, rhythmic balance, and meticulous finish attest to the prestige of Antwerp’s workshops and to the enduring influence of Floris’s decorative genius—a style that defined what Robert Hedicke aptly termed “the age of the decorative” in sixteenth-century Northern Europe.