COSÌ È (SE VI PARE)

Going between compositional surrealism and formal hyperrealism Giampaolo Bertozzi (Borgo Tossignano, 1957) and Stefano Dal Monte Casoni (Lugo di Romagna, 1961), they go by Bertozzi & Casoni, have spent years investigating the waste of contemporary society, not excluding cultural and artistic ones, in an attempt to understand troubled or misunderstood beauties, abstraction and figuration, impermanence and eternity, history and contemporaneity, fantastic imagination and precise technique.

In 2004 they were invited to exhibit at Tate Liverpool and XIV Quadrennial in Rome. In 2007 they have a solo show at Ca' Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art in Venice and in 2008 at Castello Sforzesco in Milan and at International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza. In 2009 their works are exhibited at Italian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale; in 2010 at Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation in Milan. In 2011 they exhibited at Musée des Beaux Arts in Ajaccio and at Italian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, in 2013 at Beelden aan Zee in The Hague and in 2014 in the monumental rooms of Palazzo Te in Mantua. In 2015 the solo show at Mambo in Bologna and the participation to Expo Milano. In 2016 the solo shows at Palazzo Larderel in Florence, Modern Art Gallery in Palermo, Espace Grandjean in Vallauris, Macist in Biella and Palazzo Ducale in Massa. In 2017 they open a solo show at Museo di Palazzo Poggi in Bologna and at Pinacoteca Civica in Ascoli Piceno.

On december 16th, 2017, they open Museo Bertozzi & Casoni at Cavallerizza Ducale in Sassuolo.