Sculpture Commission

miart 2023, Milan
April 14—16, 2023

The Henraux Foundation Sculpture Commission kicks off with miart 2023. The first edition was awarded to Haris Epaminonda

The Henraux Foundation Sculpture Commission kicks off with miart 2023, Milan's international modern and contemporary art fair organized by Fiera Milano from April 14th to 16th. A marble sculpture, commissioned to an artist selected at the fair, will later be exhibited at the Museo del Novecento in Milan, where it will be inaugurated during the Art Week 2024.

The first edition of the Henraux Sculpture Commission Foundation was awarded to Haris Epaminonda (1980, Nicosia, Cyprus) presented by Galleria Massimo Minini (Brescia). The artist will create the project during a residency at the Foundation in Querceta di Seravezza (LU), where the artist will have the opportunity to interact with outstanding stone materials, historical stone masters and the innovative technologies of Henraux SpA. 

Collezione Henraux 1960—1970

Querceta di Seravezza
27.07.2022 — extended until 06.11.2022
Wednesdays and Saturdays, 4 to 7 p.m.

“Collezione Henraux 1960-1970”, curated by Edoardo Bonaspetti, brings together, for the first time and after fifty years, the sculptures of Intesa Sanpaolo with those still belonging to the Henraux collection, in the same spaces in which they were created.

Collezione Henraux 1960-1970. Installation view, Henraux, 2022. Photo: Nicola Gnesi. Courtesy Fondazione Henraux and Intesa Sanpaolo collection
Collezione Henraux 1960-1970. Installation view, Henraux, 2022. Photo: Nicola Gnesi. Courtesy Fondazione Henraux and Intesa Sanpaolo collection

The exhibition is dedicated to the vital collection of marble sculptures created by the company during a unique period of its history. The exhibition itinerary begins in the main hall of the new Luce di Carrara showroom which houses the documentary part of the exhibition: an original nucleus of photos and archival documents, models and reproductions organized in thematic nuclei that recount the vital context in which the sculptures were created, the birth of the Henraux Collection and the extraordinary example of corporate culture provided by the company.

In the second, evocative space of the historic sawmill, works by Jean (Hans) Arp, Carmelo Cappello, Nino Cassani, Rosalda Gilardi Bernocco, Émile Gilioli, Joan Miró, Maria Papa Rostkowska, Alicia Penalba, Giò Pomodoro, Antoine Poncet, Branko Ružić, Giannetto Salotti, Pablo Serrano, François Stahly and Alina Szapocznikow are exhibited in chronological order.

The exhibition design by the interdisciplinary agency 2050+ echoes industrial aesthetics and traditional marble refinement processes.

Henraux Prize 2022, V Edition

Querceta di Seravezza
27.07—15.09.2022

The works of Nikita Gale, Lorenza Longhi and Himali Singh Soin, are the winners of the 5th edition of the Henraux International Sculpture Prize in memory of Erminio Cidonio.

Visual identity Lorenzo Mason Studio
Visual identity Lorenzo Mason Studio

The event, intended for artists aged under 40, is one of the Henraux Foundation’s initiatives geared towards artistic and technological innovation and experimentation, and towards emphasizing the legacy of marble in terms of its history and production.

After examining the applications presented by each member of the selection committee composed of Lorenzo Giusti, Fatima Hellberg, João Laia, Luca Lo Pinto, Lucia Pietroiusti, Yasmil Raymond and Zoé Whitley, the jury made up of Edoardo Bonaspetti, Vincenzo de Bellis, Letizia Ragaglia, Eike Schmidt and Roberta Tenconi decided to award the three international artists who best met the requirements of the Prize.

Collezione Henraux 1960-1970

Gallerie d’Italia, Milan
10.06–17.07.2022

At Milan’s Gallerie d’Italia, an Intesa Sanpaolo museum, the exhibition entitled “Collezione Henraux 1960-1970” – curated by Edoardo Bonaspetti, casts the spotlight on the major collection of marble sculptures produced by Henraux.

Visual identity: Lorenzo Mason Studio
Visual identity: Lorenzo Mason Studio

The exhibition, staged in the evocative Octagonal Courtyard and in the Alessandro Garden of the Gallerie d’Italia in Milan, highlights seven of the twenty-five Henraux sculptures in the Intesa Sanpaolo collection. For the occasion, the entire group has undergone a major, cutting-edge conservation operation.

The exhibition presents documents, archival photographs, models and reproductions organised into themed groups, and encapsulates the vital context in which the sculptures were created, the genesis of the Henraux collection and the extraordinary exemplar of corporate culture provided by the company.

Neïl Beloufa

The Moral of the Story
21.05 — 20.09.2021

Fondazione Henraux presents The Moral of the Story by the Franco-Algerian artist Neïl Beloufa (Paris, 1985), curated by Edoardo Bonaspetti

The project, devised for the public space of the Amphitheater in Apple Piazza Liberty, Milan, comprises four installations decorated with multicolor bas-reliefs and marble inlays, depicting the chapters of a fable written by the artist himself. The intervention, in one of the squares in the center of Milan which has most tangibly changed appearance over the last few years, is held in a dialogue with Beloufa’s solo show at the Fondazione Pirelli HangarBicocca curated by Roberta Tenconi, and will come to a conclusion during the Milan Art Week in September.

Hannah Levy

Retainer, a new High Line Commission
April 2021 — March 2022

  • Hannah Levy, <i>Retainer</i>, 2021. A High Line Commission. Photo by Timothy Schenck
    Hannah Levy, Retainer, 2021. A High Line Commission. Photo by Timothy Schenck

Hannah Levy’s Retainer is a sculpture of an oversized orthodontic retainer made from carved marble from the Henraux Foundation, and stainless steel that is installed on the park at 23rd Street. The new High Line Commission is organized by Cecilia Alemani, Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art.

FURLA SERIES

NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN. Misfits
26.05 — 26.09.2021

Fondazione Henraux is pleased to announce its collaboration with Fondazione Furla for the exhibition Misfits by Nairy Baghramian, curated by Bruna Roccasalva.

Nairy Baghramian, Jumbled Alphabet, 2021. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/London/Paris and Kurimanzutto, Mexico City/New York. Photo: Nick Ash
Nairy Baghramian, Jumbled Alphabet, 2021. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/London/Paris and Kurimanzutto, Mexico City/New York. Photo: Nick Ash

The project, promoted by Fondazione Furla and GAM - Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan, is realized with the contribution of Fondazione Henraux, partner of the exhibition for the production of the works in marble.

Part of the Furla Series program, Misfits is a project conceived specifically for the GAM spaces that explores some key themes of the artist’s research: from her interest in intervening in spaces that mark a boundary to the relationship between the artwork and its institutional context.

Misfits began with the specific urban setting of the GAM, that is, a garden open to adults only when accompanied by children. A series of large-scale sculptures inhabit both the museum’s interior and exterior spaces, combining the idea of play with a reflection on the aesthetic experience of inadequacy and imperfection.

Jon Rafman

— Spring 2020. The project New Age Demanded (Prince Arthur) has been produced in collaboration with Fondazione Henraux and the municipality of Montreal.

Fondazione Henraux is delighted to announce a collaboration with Canadian artist Jon Rafman and the City of Montreal. Internationally renowned for his compelling research on technology and digital media and their impact on society and contemporary life, Rafman has conceived the project New Age Demanded (Prince Arthur). The new work comprises two marble sculptures to be permanently installed in the center of the city.

The partnership is part of Fondazione Henraux’s commitment to supporting artistic and cultural projects that express innovation alongside artistic and technological experimentation.

Jenny Holzer

30.05 — 01.09.2019. The Henraux Foundation is pleased to collaborate with GAMeC for the occasion of Jenny Holzer's exhibition 'The Whole Truth'.

  • Tutta la Verità (The Whole Truth), GAMeC, Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo, Italy, 2019 © 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
    Tutta la Verità (The Whole Truth), GAMeC, Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo, Italy, 2019 © 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
  • Dormo, 2019. Curved Versilys Gold marble bench
17 x 41.75 x 18 in. / 43.2 x 106 x 45.7 cm. Text: “Essere animale per la grazia” from Pigre divinità e pigra sorte by Patrizia Cavalli, © 2006 by Giulio Einaudi Editore. Used with permission of the author and the publisher.
    Dormo, 2019. Curved Versilys Gold marble bench 17 x 41.75 x 18 in. / 43.2 x 106 x 45.7 cm. Text: “Essere animale per la grazia” from Pigre divinità e pigra sorte by Patrizia Cavalli, © 2006 by Giulio Einaudi Editore. Used with permission of the author and the publisher.

The exhibition curated by Lorenzo Giusti opened in the historic Palazzo della Ragione in Bergamo. The walls of the Sala delle Capriate, a symbolic location where city justice was administered, are the site for a series of new light projections. Medieval architecture and ancient frescoes join in conversation with the subversive poetics of the American artist. In light and marble, Holzer draws texts by Italian writers, including Patrizia Cavalli and Pier Paolo Pasolini, as well as international poets. The verses chosen by Holzer for this work touch on themes of identity, gender, and dialogue, as well as foreground issues surrounding the European migrant crisis.

The Foundation, partner of the exhibition, is proud to have produced, employing Henraux company technology and skilled workers, nine marble benches, whose surfaces are engraved with phrases chosen by Holzer. Arranged in a circle in the Sala delle Capriate, these works become a site to pause and reflect; to observe the illuminated walls and read words cut in stone.

Henraux Prize 2018

Francesco Arena, David Horvitz and Diego Marcon are the winners of the fourth edition of the Henraux Prize. The jury also gave a special mention to the collective work of Anto.Milotta and Zlatolin Donchev.

  • Diego Marcon, <i>Ludwig</i>, 2018
    Diego Marcon, Ludwig, 2018
  • Francesco Arena, <i>Metro cubo di marmo con metro lineare di cenere</i>, 2018
    Francesco Arena, Metro cubo di marmo con metro lineare di cenere, 2018

The Henraux Prize is an ambitious and complex project aimed at developing research on the potential of marble. The properties of this material are not only related to sculpture in the traditional sense but to innovative areas of thought and creation. In a unique technological and artisanal context, the artists selected for the fourth edition had the opportunity to confront a productive reality that combines digital culture and skilled craftsmen.