At the CIAC of Foligno over 40 works by the artist Luigi Boille, protagonist among the majority of the European formal. His painting has been defined, also by the artist himself, “baroque”, with a precise and unmistakable stylistic figure.
The Cassa di Risparmio di Foligno Foundation pays homage to the artist Luigi Boille, protagonist among the major of the formal
European. The new exhibition at the CIAC of Foligno (Italian Center for Contemporary Art) “Luigi Boille: Le Baroque”edited by Italo Tomassoni, will be open up to to 29 June 2025.
The CIAC presents Over 40 works by the artist: a careful selection of 24 major works that document Luigi Boille’s activity from the 1950s to the 70s and twelve works on paper of the 1950s/60s. Boille’s research has always been original and stimulating, but also faithful to a very precise and unmistakable stylistic figure. A painting of always vital and flickering colors and signs.
The exhibition is promoted and supported by the Cassa di Risparmio di Foligno Foundation, thanks to the direct collaboration with the Boille Archive in Rome and with the Ronchini Gallery in London. The organization is carried out with most culture and tourism. The exhibition, focused on contemporary Baroque, reconstructs, through a detailed series of largely documented facts, the branched, intertwined and in many ways surprising reasons for which Boille’s painting has been defined, also by the artist himself, “baroque”.
Boille begins with a language close to European Formal formulations and quickly evolves on very particular images that strike In Paris the attention of the critic and essayist Pierre Restany and, above all, of the critic and collector Michel Tapié which involves him in the most important exhibitions of his 
“Morphologie Autre” in France, USA, Italy and Japan, here with the Gutai group of Sozo Shimamoto.
The curator Italo Tomassoni wrote: “They flow into the critical plot that crosses the corpus of Boille’s works and that outlines the story of a language that has marked a conspicuous part of the art history of the 1960s, the
Fontana “Baroque” period dating back to the 1930s, Michel Tapié’s theorizations on the “Morphologie Autre” and on the “Baroque Ensemblisti” of ’63; the activity of the International Center of Contemporary Art (ICAR) in Turin; A historical essay by the curator published in Rome in 1962 with the editions of the University entitled “For a Baroque hypothesis“.
The artist. “Every art of reminiscence or prophecy is increasingly or less baroque ” (Eugenio D’Ors). Luigi Boille (1926-2015), born in Pordenone, graduated in Architecture in Rome in 1950. Since 1953 he has been active as a painter between Paris and Rome.
They wrote about his work: Pierre Restany, Giulio Carlo Argan, Carlo Franza, Michel Tapié, Lionello Venturi, Lawrence Allaway, Murilo Mendes, Cesare Vivaldi, Filiberto Menna, Simonetta Lux, Flaminio Gualdoni and others.
His works are kept in private collections and in the following museums: Park – Pordenone Contemporary Art, Gam Turin, Gnam Roma, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (Mam), Hirshhorn Museum Washington, Palazzo Braschi Rome, Museum of the twentieth century Florence, etc.
He has exhibited in important galleries, museums and numerous collective in Italy, Europe and New York: Gall. Paul Facchetti, Paris; Gall. Lucien Durand, Paris; Quadrennial, Rome; Gall. Schmela, Düsseldorf; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Venice Biennale; Hirshorn Museum, Washington; Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara; Gall. The island, Rome; Macro Museum, Rome; Museum of the twentieth century Florence; Gall. Roubaud, Monaco; Gall. Space, Milan; Casino dei Principi of Villa Torlonia, Rome; Ronchini, London and David Zwirner, New York.
Carlo Franza