Earthly Delights
Special project
Earthly Delights, a group exhibition curated by Stefano Rabolli Pansera, lies at the heart of Art Monte-Carlo’s new curated section.
Hans Josephsohn, Untitled (Ruth), 1969, credits : Kesselhaus Josephsohn Galerie Felix Lehner
The group show will notably feature works by Alvaro Barrington (Emalin), Francis Alÿs (Jan Mot), Leonora Carrington (Rosso Granada), Marcel Dzama (David Zwirner), Hans Josephsohn (Kesselhaus Josephsohn/Galerie Felix Lehner), Martin Kippenberger (Galerie Layr), and Ed Ruscha (Studio Bruno Tonini).
Taking as its starting point Luis Buñuel’s writings on the bar as a space for solitary reflection, contemplation, and mental wandering, the exhibition considers pleasure as a condition that enables creation. Far from any notion of excess or spectacle, it is understood here as an attentive practice, grounded in repetition, precision, and the intensity of gesture. The works explore forms of intimacy and perception through modest actions – waiting, observing, drawing – which become artistic strategies. By privileging proximity and introspection, Earthly Delights highlights a relationship to the world based on detail, duration, and the patient construction of the imagination.
Full list of works: Augusta Serapinas and Francesco Vezzoli (Apalazzogallery); Lorenzo Mason (Mason Studio); Anton Munar and Thea Gvetadze (LC Queisser), Latthapon Korkiartakul (Nova Contemporary); Thomas Hutton and Tamara Henderson (Sylvia Kouvali Gallery); Donald Judd, Bas Jan Ader, William Leavitt, Sol LeWitt, Superstudio, David Hammons, Enzo Mari, Bruce Nauman, Blinky Palermo, Ed Ruscha and Harald Szeemann (Studio Bruno Tonini); Yutaka Sone et Noah Latif Lamp Shun Owada (Tommy Simoens Gallery); Marta Roberti (Sara Zanin Gallery); Alvaro Barrington, Sung Tieu and Kate Spencer Stewart (Emalin); Remy Zaugg (Gerber & Stauffer Fine Arts); Hans Josephsohn (Kesselhaus Josephsohn/Galerie Felix Lehner); Martin Kippenberger and Matthias Noggler (Galerie Layr); Leonora Carrington and Lucian Freud (Rosso Granada); Mario García Torres, Stanley Brouwn and Francis Alÿs (Jan Mot); Marcel Dzama (David Zwirner); Carlo Magini (Moretti Fine Art); Tobias Just (Barbati Gallery); Edi Hila (Mitterrand); Laurie Simmons (Almine Rech), and Pascale Marthine Tayou (Galleria Continua).
Stefano Rabolli Pansera is an architect and curator working across contemporary art, architecture, and geopolitics. A graduate of the Architectural Association (London), he worked at Herzog & de Meuron before returning to the AA to teach. In 2013, he founded Beyond Entropy, developing projects across Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean, and curated the Angola Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, which won the Golden Lion that same year. He has led the open-air gallery Mangiabarche in Sardinia, collaborated with Hauser & Wirth on the opening of its Saint Moritz space, and since 2022 has directed Bangkok Kunsthalle and Khao Yai Art Forest, while also serving as Artistic Director of the St. Moritz Art Film Festival. His curatorial collaborations include Absalon, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Michel Auder, Louise Bourgeois, Christoph Büchel, Tang Chang, Richard Long, Fujiko Nakaya, Yoko Ono, among others.