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“Alphabet Intime”, a solo show by @alfredorapetti 27 April - 30 June 2026 Photo: @loicthebaud @monacoartweek #monaco #frenchriviera #exhibition #alfredorapettimogol #nmcontemporary

Exhibition: 𝗔𝗹𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗼 𝗥𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶 𝗠𝗼𝗴𝗼𝗹 - 𝘼𝙡𝙥𝙝𝙖𝙗𝙚𝙩 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 at 𝗡𝗠 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 The exhibition presents a selection of recent works executed on canvas, on tapestry and on paper as well as a new series of marble sculptures. @nmcontemporary 📍 17 rue de la Turbie 🗓 27.04.26 - 30.06.26 @alfredorapetti was born in Milan in 1961 and his artistic training was influenced by the family cultural richness, where for generations music, literature and poetry were a constant presence. His maternal grandfather, Alfredo De Pedrini, President of the Association Graphic Arts of Milan, introduced him to the city’s artistic environment, helping him to develop a passion for painting. The father, the lyricist Mogol, introduces him to the world of music and soon Alfredo establishes himself as a world famous lyricist, winning various Grammy Awards under the pseudonym of Cheope. The talent of Rapetti Mogol extends well beyond music and leads the artist to assert himself primarily as a painter. The success comes both at home and abroad: he exposes his works twice (2009 and 2011) at the Biennale in Venice and participates in numerous group and solo shows in museums and art galleries around the world. 📷 [1,2] Alfredo Rapetti Mogol « Nos pas de l’obscurité à la lumière », 2026 Writing on carpet, 350 x 120 cm (Photo: Andrea Corbellini) 📷 [3,4] Alfredo Rapetti Mogol, Studio 📷 [5] Alfredo Rapetti Mogol, Studio Portrait Photo: Valentina Tamborra #monacoartweek #artcontemporain #contemporaryart #monaco

Merci à Noel Mettey, Directeur de @lagazettedemonaco Photography 200. Part I. Matteo Basilé - Iwajla Klinke. Don’t miss this exhibition ✨ until next week. @iwajlaklinke @matteobasil3 Photo: @loicthebaud #photogtaphy #frenchriviera #monaco

“In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo.” (T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock) The exotic is always just around the corner, no matter where you are. And in the city sky, you won’t see even the brightest stars. But if you look closely in winter, six alpha stars from different constellations outline a circle around the Milky Way...
Pearls, transparent materials, shimmering precious fabrics, tinsel, plastic, stitches, colorful threads, myrrh, incense, epaulets, emperors and kings, the materiality of the baroque prefigured by El Greco, the early chiaroscuro of the Renaissance—here is an artist who dares to dissect masculinity at its freshest. Like the hunt of still life, like anatomy in study, like vanitas.
The characters captured by Iwajla Klinke are at moments of transformation, but not in the intimacy of personal space, where adolescence hatches unseen, but in situations of public solemnity, in the midst of the community, in the midst of a ritual. Through her own artistic ritual, Klinke stages the aesthetics of studio painting, then captures the subjects always on location and succeeds in softening natural light with the darkness of a backdrop. A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after,’ says Jeff Wall. Just as a lightning strike creates a pearl within a shell. Just as winter freezes nature in a time-frame that is not man-made, so too the images of this exhibition freeze the gaze between fascination, obsession, and contradiction…
The small demonstration of Iwajla Klinke’s clean, bold, and distinguishable photographic style, projects a creative reinterpretation of portraiture. But it also lays out the poetic layers of the myth of transition (from one year to the next, from one age to another) as only the eyes of the other can see them, from the distance between genders, from the earth to the stars.” Luminița Apostu Toma @iwajlaklinke @luminitaapostutoma Installation views: HYPNOPOMP Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Sibiu. @neuegaleriegladbeck Diozesanum Museum, Freiberg (Munich) Photo: Joan Porcel Studio, Ilaria Zago #iwajlaklinke #photographybicentenary #nmcontemporary #monaco #frenchriviera

Iwajla Klinke, Series “Mandarine Impériale” Bavaria, 2014, c-print on fine art paper, 115 x 78 cm, Ed.3 For a few days every year, the town of Dietfurt in Bavaria, Germany, turns Chinese. Hundreds of citizens wear traditional Chinese costumes to celebrate Carnival, a Chinese festival. What started with just the Bavarians celebrating is now an attraction that draws hundreds of visitors from China and other parts of the world.  Carnival is a Chinese festival celebrated in Dietfurt for over 90 years. Dietfurt is a partner city to Nanjing, with about 9 million people. Both cities have walls around them, and the wall in Dietfurt was instrumental in the incident that started the relationship between the town and China. The Chinese Carnival in Dietfurt is similar to the celebration in the Chinese town of Nanjing in China. The festival starts with the parade headed by the emperor, chosen by the townspeople. The emperor is the leader throughout the celebration period. During this period, the real mayor is relegated to the position of Imperial Mandarin. Carnival in Dietfurt has gained so much attention recently that it has drawn global attention. People come from different parts of the world to watch Germans engage in Chinese revelry for a few days. Even the Chinese consul in Munich had visited the festival in the past. Iwajla Klinke uses to travel and portray people ready to go out to traditional parades or festivities only with a window light and leaving a stable testimony of old traditions crossovers and persistence despite the globalization. The posture and chiaroscuro reminds of Old Masters composition such as in Dutch painting with a delicate light enhancing the subject’s look and incarnato. Photography 200 - Part I. Basilé - Klinke Focus on photography at the gallery until 23rd April. @iwajlaklinke #iwajlaklinke #nmcontemporary #photography

FLORAMAGNIFICA Matteo Basilé’s Floramagnifica stands as a visual manifesto of contemporary artistry, an hypnotic journey between nature and humanity that rewrites the codes of iconographic hybridization. Each portrait captures a fragment of an imaginative archaeology, where ephemeral beauty solidifies through creative action, generating an emotional short circuit between the tangible and the ethereal. At the heart of the project lies the concept of a unique feminine DNA, unfolded across 21 ideal generations coexisting in a single timeless moment. Femininity becomes the symbolic axis of a cyclical and universal narrative, an allegory of eternal resilience transcending time and space. Floramagnifica distinguishes itself through the pioneering use of artificial intelligence, meticulously trained by Basilé over months of aesthetic and emotional refinement. The AI, molded by the artist, emerges as a collaborator in creating portraits that go beyond mere representation of the visible, delving deep into the psychological and spiritual essence of the subjects. Here, a portrait of the soul takes shape, an evocation that transcends surface appearances to explore the profound realms of interiority. The subjects emerge from a suspended universe, an oneiric limbo where the sacred and the profane intertwine seamlessly. Flowers become organic extensions of the body, visual metaphors of the fragility and strength that define the human condition. In this intertwining of nature and identity, Basilé invites us to reflect on the interconnection between humanity and its environment, redefining our relationship with otherness. FLORAMAGNIFICA, 2024, print on baryta paper and antique frame, 80 x 70 cm

“Photography 200 - Part I. Matteo Basilé - Iwajla Klinke” is the first of two focus at NM Contemporary on the occasion of photography bicentenary. Basilé and Klinke dialogue and fuse into each other from the first to the second room and return as a hymn to portrait. Each artist through the means of different process and career focused their artistic research on revolutionizing contemporary portrait with a strong hold to Old Masters. The show runs until 23rd April. @iwajlaklinke @matteobasil3 and @meletiosmeletiou sculptures accompanying the second room installation. #matteobasile #iwajlaklinke #nmcontemporary #photographybicentenary

Photography 200 - Part I Matteo Basilé - Iwajla Klinke is the first focus on photography at NM Contemporary in occasion of photography bicentenary. Basilé and Klinke face and fuse each other from the first to the second room and return as a hymn to portraiture. Each artist through the means of different process and career focused their artistic research on revolutionizing contemporary portrait with a strong hold to Old Masters. Klinke uses classical composition to capture her subjects in either traditional costumes, or else manufactured creations that somehow preserve some semblance of ancient ritual. “…Iwajla Klinke’s practice, after all, also extends beyond contemporary photography’s limited concerns and is perhaps best seen situated among the paintings of the Old Masters that continue to inspire her, with the chiaroscuro endeavors of Jean Barbault and Caravaggio immediately springing to mind. Excavating some of the most unlikely sources of our contemporary fabric and forcing us to turn our gaze on them in an intense consideration, Iwajla Klinke effectively re-invents the sublime and gives us a new politics of reality…” Travis Jeppesen Matteo Basilé’s Floramagnifica on the second room stands as a visual manifesto of contemporary artistry, an hypnotic journey between nature and humanity that rewrites the codes of iconographic hybridization. Each portrait captures a fragment of an imaginative archaeology, where ephemeral beauty solidifies through creative action, generating an emotional short circuit between the tangible and the ethereal. At the heart of the project lies the concept of a unique feminine DNA, unfolded across 21 ideal generations coexisting in a single timeless moment. Femininity becomes the symbolic axis of a cyclical and universal narrative, an allegory of eternal resilience transcending time and space. Floramagnifica distinguishes itself through the pioneering use of artificial intelligence, meticulously trained by Basilé over months of aesthetic and emotional refinement. Photography 200, Part I. Basilé - Klinke. Join us to the opening coctkail this Thursday 9th April at from 6 pm to 8:30 pm ✨ @matteobasil3 @iwajlaklinke

Introducing: 𝗔𝗹𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗼 𝗥𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶 𝗠𝗼𝗴𝗼𝗹 Alfredo Rapetti Mogol (born in Milan in 1961) is an Italian painter and Grammy-winning lyricist known as Cheope. Growing up in a family immersed in music, literature, and art, he developed a path that bridges both writing and visual expression. His work explores the relationship between words and images, where writing becomes part of the painted surface. Rapetti’s works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale in 2009 and 2011, as well as in museums and galleries around the world. 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘻𝘢 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢 𝘯𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘮𝘰 𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘷𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘮𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘻𝘢 𝘥𝘪 𝘯𝘰𝘪 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪. 𝘕𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘰 𝘭𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘢 𝘦̀ 𝘭𝘢 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘦 𝘥𝘶𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪, 𝘥𝘪 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘪 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘻𝘰𝘯𝘪 𝘦 𝘥𝘪 𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦. 𝘌𝘥 𝘦̀ 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘰 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘦 Alfredo Rapetti Mogol, Milano Corriere. 🔜 A solo show by @alfredorapetti will be presented at @nmcontemporary during MAW 📷 Alfredo Rapetti Mogol, Portrait Photo: Gianni Izzo 📷 Alfredo Rapetti Mogol « Nos pas de l’obscurité à la lumière », 2026, writing on carpet, 350 x 120 cm Photo: Andrea Corbellini 📷 Alfredo Rapetti Mogol, Studio Portrait Photo: Valentina Tamborra

Matteo Basilé, Theatrum Naturae, 2025, generative video and photographs. #miaphotofairbnpparibas #matteobasile #nmcontemporary #photography #beauty

Matteo Basilé, Flora Magnifica, 2024, generative video and fine art prints. @miaphotofair @domenico_de_chirico @matteobasil3 #beyondphotographydialogue #miaphotofairbnpparibas #nmcontemporary #matteobasilé #photography

Mia Photo Fair Milano 2026, “Metamorfosi”, sezione Beyond Photography Dialogue a cura di Domenico de Chirico. NM presenta tre artisti legati alla rappresentazione della metamorfosi umana e naturale: Antonio Barbieri, Matteo Basilé e Vincenzo Marsiglia.   La ricerca di quest’ultimi si esprime mediante una costruzione dell’immagine fuori dagli schemi tradizionali della fotografia, mediante nuovi processi di elaborazione che spaziano dall’utilizzo dell’A.I., al visore Hololens 2 ad apparecchiature tecnologiche home-made e con esiti del tutto nuovi e apparentemente avvenieristici ma in realtà dal timbro umano fortissimo.   In un momento storico di trasformazione dove la velocità evolutiva disperde la coscienza, gli artisti esposti cercano, ciascuno nel proprio linguaggio, il recupero empatico della natura, intesa sia come de rerum naturae che come natura hominis. La tecnologia è piegata a mero strumento creativo nell’affermazione della percezione e della rappresentazione. Opere: Antonio Barbieri, Auryn, 2025, scultura, fotogrammetrie di elementi naturali ed elaborazione di datasets, 130 parti stampate in 3D, PLA e SLA, pittura a olio, 90 x 80 x 65 cm Filogenesi di una Chimera, 2036,Polittico Fotografico, albero filogenetico di Auryn, 30 x 50 cm cad. Vincenzo Marsiglia, Map Star The World Nature (Carrara, Capalbio, Matera), scatti fotografici con Hololens 2 (tecnologia realtà aumentata), 2025, dimensioni variabili, tre formati, pezzo unico per ciascun formato. Matteo Basilé, Theatrum Naturae, 2025, video generativo, chiave usb. Ed. di 3 + 2 AP Matteo Basilé, Flora Magnifica, 2024, stampe fotografiche, 60 x 40 cm, tre formati, ed.3, pezzo unico in ciascun formato. #miaphotofairbnpparibas #nmcontemporary #domenicodechirico