MILAN.- kaufmann repetto announced the representation of Bice Lazzari, in collaboration with the Bice Lazzari Archive.
From October 16, 2025, to January 7, 2026, Palazzo Citterio in Milan hosts a major retrospective of Bice Lazzari, The Languages of Her Time, which will travel to the Galleria Nazionale D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAMC) in Rome. The accompanying exhibition catalogue will feature essays by Christine Macel, Dorothy Kosinski, Renato Miracco, and Isabella Barone. A forthcoming catalogue raisonné will be published in 2026, curated by Antonella Soldaini, with essays by Cecilia Alemani and Emily Braun.
The exhibition, curated by Renato Miracco in collaboration with the Bice Lazzari Archive and GNMAC in Rome, presents over 110 works from Italian and foreign museums, institutions, and collections, retracing Lazzari's career from the applied arts in the 1930s and 1940s, to the final period of her work characterized by a rigorous minimalism.
The retrospective at Palazzo Citterio is the first anthological exhibition of Lazzari in Italy, taking visitors on a journey through the evolution of a style that, while always personal, was radically and poetically engaged with its time and with Italian and European artistic research between 1940 and 1980. With Lazzari, we witness the emergence of a new visual system that was consistently constructed throughout the artist's career, establishing a close relationship between image and the narrative structure of a painting, fully responding to the ethical principle of the time: the rejection of any crystallization into immobile and socially accepted forms. Lazzari's pictorial identity coincides with that of her research: a continuous germination of indirect forms, destined to evoke a world of her own, intimate and parallel, where color becomes means of expression, and creation of a sign generates a relaxed, open, unhesitating vision.
Lazzari was recently the subject of a solo exhibition at kaufmann repetto Milan (2025); Estorick Collection, London (2022); Museo del Novecento, Florence (2019); National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington (2013); MACRO - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2011); Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna Ca’ Pesaro, Venezia (2005); Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (2002). Her work is included in the collections of Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Alessandria; Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Cagliari; Museo Novecento, Firenze; Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Ferrara; Pinacoteca Comunare, Macerata; Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano; Museo del Novecento, Milano; Galleria Civica, Modena; Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Parma; Museo Nazionale, Pisa; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Musei Vaticani, Rome; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea; Rome; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea MACRO, Rome; Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna Ca’ Pesaro; Venice; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington; Yale University, New Haven; The Philips Collection, Washington D.C.
