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While Yves Klein was painting his first blue monochromes in Paris (1957), the Galleria Blu, founded by Peppino Palazzoli, was opening in Milan. The Galleria Blu, born with the precise idea of giving, through its choices, immediate information on international artists and sculptors, has given preference and fought from the very beginning with the scope of attesting the postwar forefront artists.
Consequently, new generation artists and even some of the most rappresentative but not so young, have had exhibitions, such as Fortunato Depero, Mario Soldati and Hans Hartung. In addition to these artists, the Blu has also presented a series of historically important exhibitions: from Umberto Boccioni to Giacomo Balla, from Wols to Arshile Gorky and from Yves Klein to Piero Manzoni, Alberto Burri, Ennio Morlotti, Emilio Vedova and Lucio Fontana all shown for the first time with exclusive rights. The trust of the artists and the will to renew were the elements which drove the Galleria's activity forward. Some later exhibitions show how the Blu avoided settling down into a possible and foreseeable kind of safe collectionism: Emilio Vedova, Jean Dubuffet, Henri Michaux, Wols in 1960, Afro and Anton Zoran Music in 1961, Emil Schumacher, Làzlò Moholy-Nagy in 1962, Arshile Gorky in 1964, Kurt Schwitters, Max Ernst in 1965, Alexander Calder, Jean Tinguely in 1972, Jean Fautrier, Jean-Paul Riopelle in 1973, Lyonel Feininger in 1974, Blake in 1977, Frantisek Kupka in 1979.
After the founder’s Peppino Palazzoli death in 1982, is son Luca opened the exhibition Feininger and Kandinski. This, together with the exhibitions which were to follow revealed the intention of continuing a coherent policy with the past, through choices made following historical motivation, in continual search of quality which lasts in time and isn't influenced by trends. In 1983, personal exhibitions of Sebastian Matta and Lucio Fontana were held. In 1984, the Blu showed 40 works by Piero Manzoni. This artist had already had exhibitions in 1964 and 1970. In June 1984 a personal exhibition of Fortunato Depero, and at the end of the same year, Gastone Novelli. In 1985, an exhibition of Pinot Gallizio and a personal exhibition of Shusaku Arakawa including 10 of his most recent works. 1986 started with the works of art of Tancredi and was followed by Lynn Chadwick. In 1987 the City Council of Milan together with the Editor, Vanni Scheiwiller, paid homage to the 30 years activity of the Galleria Blu has held a series of exhibitions which have shown a double intention to respect its past, but also give a chance to imprompt expository occasions which encourage critical meditation. Some of this are: Piero Manzoni (1988), Giuseppe Santomaso (1990), Sandro Martini, Agostino Bonalumi (1991), Lynn Chadwick (1992), Jean Dubuffet (1993), Wols, Franz Schultze (1994), Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinski (1995), Pablo Picasso, Kurt Schwitters (1996). In 1997 the Galleria Blu celebrated 40 years of activity with two exhibitions dedicated to the artists which the Blu has rappresented, some with worldwide exclusive rights; and with the Competition exhibition: Libero Blu (Free Blue) for young artists. In 1998, personal exhibitions of Lynn Chadwick and
Franz Schultze and the exhibition Il segno dei grandi (Mark of the great), a collection of works of the most important artists of this century, from Henri Matisse onwards. The Galleria Blu realised Piero Manzoni's Catalogue raisonné: "Catalogo Ragionato dell'opera di Piero Manzoni" and is preparing the catalogues for Agostino Bonalumi, Sandro Martini and Giuseppe Santomaso.
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