Domenico Gnoli

Domenico Gnoli, who died at the age of 36 in 1970, was an Italian artist of international sensitivity and enormous originality, who met people like Laurence Olivier and Italo Calvino, Jean-Louis Barrault and Robert Graves, Cecil Beaton and Ernst Fuchs in his life. An isolated person, too, who did not recognize himself in his contemporary artistic currents: often confused with Pop Art, of which he was, if anything, a precursor. The Prada Foundation, particularly intrigued by outsiders, dedicates a great exhibition to him from 28 October to 27 February 2022, the last one conceived by Germano Celant, and reconstructs his path in more than one hundred works and as many drawings, dated from 1949 to 1969.