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until 10.01. | #4898ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar shows from Saturday, 08. November 2025 an exhibition by the artist Ernesto Tatafiore.
Ernesto Tatafiore was born in Naples in 1943. He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1970, 1980, and 1990. Since 1971, he has been in close contact with Jannis Kounellis. In 1969, he had his first exhibition at Lucio Amelio, one of the leading international avant-garde galleries of the time. Subsequent exhibitions included one there in 1981 with Joseph Beuys, Tony Cragg, Mimmo Paladino, and David Salle; in 1984, at Villa Campolieto, with Richard Long, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. In addition, there were other early groundbreaking gallery exhibitions, for example at Isy Brachot Paris, André Emmerich New York, Lisson Gallery London, and Paul Maenz Cologne. Exhibitions in numerous leading international museums with accompanying publications.
Circe, 2008, Gouache und Aquarell auf Papier, 24,8 x 20,5 cm
Tatafiore developed his forms of expression early on, working with different techniques and materials, combining painting and drawing, collage and object-like sculptures, and adopting a subversive approach. Central to his work is the theme of the French Revolution, which for the artist represents “a kind of ‘great metaphor’” (Jean-Christophe Ammann). Essential to this are its inherent ambivalences, the reign of virtue (“la vertu”), the mythological background, and history as allegory. This is done in a more playful or subtle form that incorporates language. This universal view is accompanied by the leitmotif of Vesuvius, as an eternal symbol of the dangers in history as well as his homeland, the land “to which one must always return, like Ulysses” (La terra, come Ulisse, a cui bisogna sempre fare ritorno, Ernesto Tatafiore).
Opening: Saturday, 08. November 2025, 12 – 4 pm
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 08. November until Saturday, 10. January 2026
To the gallery
Titel image: Robespierre, 1996, Acryl auf Japanpapier, 11 x 12 cm
Exhibition Ernesto Tatafiore – Galerie Dittmar | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
