M77 is thrilled to announce the opening of “Maria Lai. Woven Writing” a retrospective exhibition at Es Baluard Museum, curated by Imma Prieto, Director of the Museum, and Maria Alicata. Maria Lai. Woven Writing May 12 – September 3, 2023 Es Baluard Museu Palma de Mallorca
On the 26th of June, the Stazione dell’Arte in Ulassai will be presenting the new layout of its permanent collection entitled Maria Lai. Fame d’Infinito. Art to see, feel, touch: never have Maria Lai’s work crossed every physical and intellectual barrier as on the occasion of the new setup. An exhibition that is a multisensory […]
Artforum just published an amazing review penned by Alessandra Pioselli (translated by Marguerite Shore) on Maria Lai‘s largely celebrated retrospective at MAXXI Museum in Rome. « Throughout her oeuvre, Lai dialectically probed light and shadow. The exhibition emphazises this effort, drawing its subtitle “Tenendo per mano il sole” (Taking the Sun by the Hand), from […]
A new exhibition about Maria Lai just opened its doors in Matera, focusing on the artist’s close relationship with internationally renowned fashion designer Antonio Marras (1961, Alghero). In the evocative setting of Palazzo Lanfranchi, Trama doppia. Maria Lai, Antonio Marras features more than 300 artworks realized by the two artists both seperately and four-handedly, carefully selected […]
The result of the collaboration between M77 Gallery and 5 Continents Editions on Tuesday 3 December 2019 two appointments dedicated to Maria Lai will take place in Milan. The first meeting will take place from 10.30 to 12.00 at the former Great Hall of the Brera Academy. Here Elena Pontiggia, art historian, will have the opportunity […]
M77 Gallery is happy to invite you to a talk focused on the circulation of works of art entitled: “Starting from a sentence. A conversation on the circulation of artworks in the XXI century” to be held next Friday, October 11 at 7 pm at the gallery spaces in via Mecenate 77. The debate takes its […]
Opened on the day of her centenary, the exhibition “Un silenzio e uno Sguardo” (“A Silence and a Gaze”) MANCASPAZIO in Nuoro, Sardinia shows the public a selection of Maria Lai‘s early works. The exhibition curated by Chiara Manca continues in on M77‘s effort to bring to the front a lesser known but astounding production […]
Today we celebrate Maria Lai‘s first centenary. Although she left us in 2013, through her works she lives on. On this very occasion, the MAXXI Museum (Rome), as part of her retrospective, Tenendo per mano il sole, will host a public event “Giornata Studio” focusing on the complex and fascinating career of the artist through the words of […]
Opening today Wopart, the international art fair dedicated to works on paper. We will be exhibiting a selection of works by Emilio Isgró, Maria Lai, Avish Khebrehzadeh and Braco Dimitrievic. The fair will be open today until 9pm and from 11am to 7pm on the 20th, 21st and 22nd. Come find us a booth B06! […]
“On Art’s thread with Sardinia in her heart”: Check out Lara Leovino’ s review of Maria Lai’s MAXXI retrospective, in Rome, published on Fmagazine by Cairo Editore. The exhibition announces itself as a story, not conditioned by a chronology, characterized instead by intuitions and speeches that favor a peculiar biographical and artistic path. “Maria Lai is […]