Thaddaeus Ropac apre a Milano Inauguration this fall at Palazzo Belgioioso

By Silvia Anna Barrilà 

Another name is added to the - admittedly not too long - list of international gallery owners who have chosen to focus on our country, that of the Austrian Thaddaeus Ropac, who will open a gallery in Milan next autumn in Palazzo Belgioioso. The premises are already well known to collectors and frequenters of the art world, in fact, they have already hosted Massimo De Carlo for two years from 2020 and then, for another two years, from April 2022 to last December, Javier Peres.

It is now hoped that the Austrian gallerist's stay will be a lasting one. The decision was calibrated. ‘We thought long and hard about the idea of opening in Italy,’ Thaddaeus Ropac commented by phone from Paris. 'We represent our artists in Paris, London, Salzburg and Korea, Italy was missing. For many years our artists have been present at the Venice Biennale and other important exhibitions in Italian institutions, we have cultivated close relations not only in the lagoon city, but also in Rome and other places. When choosing the destination for the new gallery, it was clear to us that it had to be Milan for its dynamism, both in the past and today'.

Italy is seen by the gallery as the crossroads of the European continent, which has shaped the evolution of art over the centuries and where important artistic movements were born, but also the place where the gallery's artists have been inspired, have had fruitful relationships and have realised important institutional exhibitions, including in recent years that of Baselitz at the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Beuys at Palazzo Cini, Sylvie Fleury at the Pinacoteca Agnelli, to name but a few. Another one is already scheduled, that of Rauschenberg at the Museo del Novecento in Milan, which on the occasion of its centenary is being put into dialogue with Italian 20th century masters from the collection.