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Welcome to the LAGOBAVA ARTEVINO wine shop and exhibition space. Our intent is to offer a unique experience through the love we have for wine and art. Gabriele, oenologist, Micaela sommelier with a degree in Literature, we do everything together: we produce our own wine in Monferrato and select wines from all over Italy for the wine shop and distribution and, thanks to the collaboration of our friends Marco Cattaneo and Jill Mathis, we also have contemporary art exhibitions.
Our Latest Exhibits
Our seasonal and special exhibits showcase some of the most talented artists in Italy and beyond. From paintings to photography and sculpture, our enoteca and gallery is a feast for the senses. Stay updated on our upcoming events by subscribing to the newsletter today.
Bianco Nero e Azzurro Cielo
Marcello Morandini e Maria Teresa Barisi
An exhibition bringing together the works of an extraordinary artistic couple: Marcello Morandini, with sixty years of a career dedicated to the study of movement in space through the rigor of geometry, engages in dialogue with his wife, Maria Teresa Barisi, who turns her gaze toward the skies, clouds, and nature. The exhibition includes both new and historical works by Marcello Morandini, his wife Maria Teresa Barisi, and several pieces created for the Marcello Morandini Foundation, established in 2016 with the aim of creating a museum dedicated to the artist, preserving and enhancing his works, and promoting awareness of Concrete and International Constructivist Art.
12 aprile - 5 luglio 2025
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Enrica Borghi
Born in Premosello Chiovenda (VB) in 1966, Enrica lives and works on the shores of Lake Orta
(Novara). In 1990 she graduated from the Accademia Belle Arti di Brera in Milan in sculpture with Alik Cavaliere. From 2005 to today she has been President, founder and coordinator of the Cultural Association
Asilo Bianco and in 2024 she established the Enrica Borghi Foundation which intends to address issues related to sustainability and the environment.
Her notable solo exhibitions include: in Turin 1999 Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and the light installation of Luci d’Artista: Palle di neve of 1998 which was then re-proposed in 2006 during the Turin Winter Olympics. In 2005 at the MAMAC in Nice (France); 2013 the Estorick collection in London. In 2018 at the Castello di Novara her first retrospective curated by Lorella Giudici took place entitled: ECO. In 2007 in Salerno, site specif MOSAICO. In 2022, the LA REGINA installation was presented again at ECOMONDO in Rimini, made with over
12,000 used plastic bottles.
Sandro Chia
Born in 1946 in Florence, Sandro Chia studied at the Istituto d'Arte and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, where he graduated in 1969. After graduation, he traveled to India, Turkey and throughout Europe before settling in Rome in 1970. In the 1970s he began exhibiting in Rome and Europe, gradually moving away from conceptual works towards a more figurative style.
In 1982 he moved to New York City, where he remained for over two decades, with frequent trips to Montalcino (SI). He was part of the Transavanguardia movement, and his works have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world.
Today he lives between Miami, Rome and his own wine estate “Castello Romitorio” in Montalcino, where he also follows the production of prestigious wines, including the famous Brunello wine which won many international awards in 2010 and 2015 as 'best red wine in the world' (London Wine Challenge 2010 and 2015).
26 September 2024 - 23 November 2024
Past Exhibitions
Marco Casentini
Marco Casentini was born in 1961 in La Spezia, Italy.
A partire dal 1996 inizia a viaggiare negli Stati Uniti dapprima attraverso l’ovest e in seguito negli stati centrali e dell’est.
Marco lives between Milan, where teaches painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and Los Angeles, California.
…Marco Casentini’s paintings are elegant, minimal studies of geometric abstraction, often inspired by an experience tied to landscape or urban scenes. His work leaves the viewer with an impression or emotion, rather than a concrete image of a scene. He uses the juxtaposition of color, light, and geometry to convey that which he finds in his everyday life...
Kazumasa Mizokami
Kazumasa Mizokami was born in Arita, Japan, in 1958 into a family of ceramists. Arita is a town famous in Japan for its ceramics called "Imari". Kazumasa grew up absorbing the culture of clay working from an early age. But Kazumasa does not want to be just a craftsman, but aspires to be an artist, so he leaves Japan and, after a stay in Mexico where he teaches sculpture, he moves to Milan, attending the Brera Academy where he graduates in 1992. After graduating , settles permanently in Milan where he lives and works.
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Maurizio Bottoni
After attending the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Maurizio dedicated himself to the study of ancient painting and engraving techniques. His is an expressive language linked to figuration, his subjects are mainly still lifes, landscapes and portraits. There are numerous references to the paintings, drawings and engravings of great artists of the early sixteenth century such as Albrecht Dürer, as well as to the contemporary figuration of Giorgio De Chirico and Pietro Annigoni.
7 October 2023 - 6 January 2024
Davide Baroggi
Davide Baroggi was born in 1977 in Locarno, Switzerland and lives and works in Pavia. Baroggi's artistic research starts from the examination of what surrounds him, landscape, animals which he reinterprets with his personal style transforming them into an extraordinary dreamlike dimension which takes on the soul and energy of what he portrays.
He expresses his poetics through an aggressive and passionate use of color, a characteristic that also aroused the interest and meeting with Lucio Dalla, a well-known singer-songwriter, gallery owner and collector of the artist.
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6 May - 1 July 2023
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Alessi d'après -
Alberto Alessi
Art is the universe in which Alessi research has developed. An investigation inaugurated at the beginning of the 70s with the Alessi d'après, a hyperbolically experimental project that gave life to a collection of sculptures, produced in non-limited series, of which that of Salvador Dalà was the only one don't see the light. After about three years, and the creation of the first five multiples, the project was suspended: it had not met with public interest, furthermore, its production complexity had monopolized the mechanical workshop, delaying the creation of the objects then in the catalogue.
MULTIPLE
Design: Salvador DalÃ
Useless object
Multiple in 925 silver, 24 carat gilded brass and olive wood. Limited series of 99 numbered pieces and 3 author's proofs.
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8 July - 30 September 2023
Carlo Bava, Alessi Zucchi &
Cristina Pasquali
Ekium is an "imaginary collective" born in 2020, as an evolution of the research path started in 2018 by Alessia, Carlo and Maria Cristina with the publication of the first edition of Muro, I'll eat you! The name of the collective recalls, on the one hand, that of a much loved herb: Echium vulgare, Viperina. On the other hand it makes one think of an echo, one that would amplify and return the artistic, poetic and ethnobotanical provocations launched by the three. The multi-handed work Green Symphony was created in 2019: a coordinated series of portraits of plants, observed and interpreted through unusual shades of color. In 2021 the Inenze project was created, which sees the Pantones of the year among the protagonists: 17-5401 Ultimate Gray and 13-4607 Illuminating. It is no coincidence that these colors are very similar to those of the fruits and flowers of numerous publications and consultant for Dandelion, the herb to which the research path was dedicated.
26 novembre - 28 gennaio 2023
Valerio Tedeschi
Valerio Tedeschi was born in 1958 in Verbania and lives and works in Mergozzo near Lake Maggiore.
Over the years he has acquired a prominent place in the complex history of contemporary Italian sculpture by virtue of his original ideas and the exceptional technical and stylistic way in which he works with marble. His experimentation manages to compare the unique traits of a great tradition with the changing international linguistic demands. He has created numerous public works in Italy and abroad and his works can be found in various private collections and museums.
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Ralph Gibson
Ralph Gibson is known for his highly distinctive artistic images that heighten contrast and emphasize grain. His photographs can be found in major private and public collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Bibliotheque Nationale. In addition to numerous prestigious exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world and more than 40 monographs, he has lectured and conducted workshops in over twenty countries. He has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts; he was awarded the Leica Medal of Excellence and is Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France. In 2018 he was named a Knight of the Legion of Honor by the President of France and in 2022 he received the Leica Hall of Fame Award for his lifetime achievements.
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Aldo Damioli
Aldo Damioli's works are fully descriptive canvases, the result of an original work of precision and detail, first of photographic inspiration and then of conceptual clearing of the landscape from confusion and accident. Sumptuous and chilling, Damioli's views question our (common) senses of sight and orientation: a commitment to scenography and editing that produces environmental stills awaiting action and true protagonists. Since 1992 Damioli has worked to consolidate this recognizable and very personal stylistic choice: VeneziaNewYork is now a real brand dedicated to contemporary scenarios: portraits of metropolises halfway between humorous essay and sociological study.
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11 June - 8 September 2022
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Jill Mathis
Jill Mathis grew up in Texas and studied photography at both the University of Texas at San Antonio and Austin. After living in New York for over five years, four of which were spent as Ralph Gibson's full-time assistant, he moved to Northern Italy. Jill exhibits regularly in Europe, Asia and America and her work can be found in both private and public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Norton Museum, the Birmingham Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego.
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2 April - 9 June 2022
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Micaela Lago and Gabriele Bava
In the heart of the village of Cannobio, the fifteenth-century building "Casa Pironi" is the setting for Gabriele and Micaela's wine shop, where wine and art come together.
Their expertise in the wine field and their interest in artistic expression, also stimulated by meetings with passionate friends and artists, pushed them to give life to this project: “Emotions take shape in this place: art arouses them, the wine frees them. Heart and reason meet and the rest remains outside. Our passion for wine meets, here, the love of art and the pleasure of hospitality."
Gabriele Bava was born into a family historically involved in the sector; after studying Oenology in Alba, he worked with his father in the family shop, Casa Bava. Due to his outstanding skills in tasting he joined the Grand Jury Européen, becoming one of the fifteen permanent members. The opportunity to get to know the best producers and wines in the world led Gabriele to decide to create his own.
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Micaela Lago, a graduate in Literature, was influenced by Gabriele's great passion for wine, obtaining the title of Sommelier. Together they created the LAGOBAVA winery in Vignale Monferrato, a place that contains the root of the word "vine" in its name and the vine branch in the municipal coat of arms.