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Valentin Rilliet, Untitled, 2025, oil and sand on linen, 130 x 90 cm (51 ⅛ x 35 ⅜ in.). Courtesy de l’artiste et de la Galerie Peter Kilchmann Zurich/Paris

Galerie Peter Kilchmann

Paul Wesenberg, Carmin River, 2024, huile sur toile, toile cirée, 200 x 150 cm, Courtesy RX&SLAG

Galerie RX&SLAG

Galerie Raphaël Durazzo

Titina Maselli 1924 — 2005, Italy

"Panta Rhei – Everything flows"

  • Titina Maselli, Calciatori e città, 1973, Acrylic on canvas

Titina Maselli, Calciatori e città, 1973, Acrylic on canvas

Titina Maselli is a leading figure in twentieth-century Italian art. Favoring large formats, Maselli plunges us into nights on canvas in a style that is instantly recognizable. She brilliantly depicts the movement, speed and energy that characterized her era. Her work, imbued with the Italian avant-garde, to which she feverishly added all the effervescence of the post-war years through to the Pop years, had a rightful place in the gallery’s program, which we intend to dedicate to the history of the Avant-Garde.

She was born in Rome in 1924 into a family of artists and intellectuals.  Her father, a philosopher and art critic, encouraged her to paint from an early age, and it was in Rome in 1948, at the age of 24, that she exhibited her work for the first time. She was soon noticed. For the Italian writer Renzo Vespignani, her creations reflected “the passions of a generation still acerbic, but already tested by fear and despair”. 

Later, Maselli painted the archetypes of her time. “I wasn’t interested in imperial Rome, I was looking for modern Rome, and I seemed to discover it at night”, she would later say of her early research. These nocturnal cities reveal what seems to her to be left of reality and what we don’t look at enough: they are criss-crossed by a geometry of lines and urban networks in which the streets awaken under the vibrant glow of neon lights and neon signs. Maselli’s modernity breaks up the landscape to the point of making nature disappear. Her Metropolis scenes feature footballers, boxers and cyclists who split the concrete more than they make their way through it.

Titina Maselli took part in the Venice Biennale four times and exhibited in several European cities. From 1952 to 1955, she lived in New York, confronting the Pop Art movement from which she wanted to differentiate herself: “These young artists want to paint the object itself. I, on the other hand, intend to paint conflicts”. In fact, she paints this conflict between man and his environment: an environment he is constantly trying to sow, to surpass, in energy, speed and even strength. She would later put this conflict at the heart of her work, designing sets for numerous films.

In the 70s, she moved to Paris, where the theater and opera houses welcomed her and made her a household name. She collaborated with major directors such as Jean Jourdheuil, Brigitte Jaques and, above all, Bernard Sobel, with whom she worked on twenty productions between 1980 and 2003, mainly designing sets and costumes: Samuel Beckett’s Va-et-vient and Pas moi (1980), Betsy Jolas’ opera Le Cyclope after Euripides (1986), Luigi Pirandello’s Les Géants de la montagne (1994). In 2003, for the Aix-en-Provence Festival, she designed the sets for Stravinsky’s Renard, directed by Grüber and conducted by Pierre Boulez.

Maselli died on February 22, 2005 at her home in Rome. Her exhibitions and retrospectives at the Rome Quadriennale, the Salons de la jeune peinture and A.R.C. in Paris, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the Kunstamt Kreuzberg in Berlin and the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence (1972) attest to her creative wealth.

Solo show of Titina Maselli

From April 3rd to May 31st, 2025

 

 

23 Rue du Cirque
75008 Paris, France
01 40 07 51 89 raphaeldurazzo.com

The gallery

After ten years working as an Art Advisor, Raphael Durazzo opened a gallery dedicated to the 20th century Avant-Gardes in Matignon/Saint-Honoré.

Raphael Durazzo aims to be the essential showcase for the great Surrealist painters, especially the women, as well the most renowned post-war artists. The gallery also presents contemporary artists in dialogue with modern artists.

The gallery cultivates particularly close links with its collectors consulting for private as well as corporate collections.

Galerie Raphael Durazzo is honoured to participate to TEFAF Maastricht 2025.

Gallery artists

Josef Albers, Joseph Beuys, André Butzer, Leonora Carrington, Le Corbusier, Christa Dichgans, Leonor Fini, Jonathan Gardner, Walter Gropius, Jörg Immendorff, Vassily Kandinsky, Anselm Kiefer, Paul Klee, Jacqueline Lamba, Fernand Léger, Nadia Léger, Markus Lüpertz, Amédée Ozenfant, A.R Penck, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Oskar Schlemmer, Gérard Schneider, Thomas Schütte, Gunta Stölzl, Dorothea Tanning, Fritz Winter, Irène Zurkinden

In the thematic « Modern Art »

Michel Potage, Dans la vase, Technique Mixte, 130 x 195 cm

L'Avant Galerie Vossen

Michel Potage 1949 — 2020, France

"Michel POTAGE Peintures et Dessins"



Anne Wenzel, Requiem of Heroism (monument II), 2010, Ceramic and wood, 45 x 63 x 58 cm, Courtesy of the artist and and Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris

Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve

Anne Wenzel, Otto Dix

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"Anne Wenzel x Otto Dix"

Anne Manoli, Sauvage est le vent, 2017, Peinture à l’huile, cire et emulsion sur toile, 158 x 198 cm

Berthet-Aittouarès

Anne Manoli, Yann Bagot, Paul Iratzoquy

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"La nature en question"

In the thematic « Painting »

Laura Garcia Karras, Oraison, 2024, Huile sur toile, 180 x 150 cm, Courtesy de l’artiste et Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou

Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou

Laura Garcia Karras 1988, France

"Calisté"

MAX ERNST & JOAQUÍN FERRER - Les surprises du hasard exhibition view, Galleria Continua / Paris Matignon. Photo: © Paul Hennebelle. Paris ADAGP 2025

GALLERIA CONTINUA

Max Ernst & Joaquín Ferrer

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"Les surprises du hasard"

 Installation view, Zander Galerie, Cologne 2024, featuring works by Ed Ruscha: If You Ever Tell I'll Hurt Your Mama Real Real Bad, 1994, If No Cash By Noon You Will Have Visitors, 1997, Do As Told Or Suffer, 1997, and A Columbian Necklace for You, 1997.

Zander Galerie

Ed Ruscha 1937, United States

"Cityscapes"

In the thematic « Women Artists »

GaHee Park, Incarnation, 2025, Oil on linen, 172.7 x 182.9 cm, Photo: Paul Litherland, Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin

Perrotin

GaHee Park 1985, South Korea

"Not Quite Tomorrow"

Anne-Sophie Emard, La flûtiste borgne, 2025, Tirages Cibachrome sous diasec, châssis affleurant chêne teinté ciré noir, Diptyque,  45cm x 30cm et 85cm x 70cm, Courtesy de l'artiste et Galerie Claire Gastaud

Galerie Claire Gastaud | Paris

Anne-Sophie Emard 1973, France

"La flûtiste borgne"

Yves Klein, L’Esclave mourant d’après Michel-Ange, 1962

Galerie Jean-François Cazeau

Eduardo Arroyo, César, Gaston Chaissac, Paul Delvaux, Leonor Fini, Gen Paul, Henri Hayden, Auguste Herbin, Marcel Janco, Paul Klee, Yves Klein, Jean Lacombe, Fernand Léger, Eugène Leroy, Aristide Maillol, André Masson, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Paul Elie Ranson, Auguste Renoir, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Kees Van Dongen

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"La Figuration dans tous ses états"

In the tour « Matignon »

Alighiero Boetti, Entre chien et loup, 1988, Tapestry, Embroidery/fabric, 18 x 18 cm, Courtesy : Pron

Pron

Alice Gavalet, Alighiero Boetti, Bernard Rooke, Carlo Scarpa, Diego Giacometti, Ernesto Basile, Ettore Sottsass, Fausto Melotti, Gommaar Gilliams, Jane Yang-D’Haene, Kodai Ujiie, Lucio Fontana, Maurizio Donzelli, Niyaz Najafov, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Pietro Ruffo, Roberto Matta, Rémy Pommeret, Roger Herman, Ujiie Kodai, et Vittorio Zecchin

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"Exposition inaugurale"

Photo by Matt Emonson

Galerie Lelong

Alison Saar 1956, United States

"Sweet Life"

Robert Irwin, #3 x 6' D Four Fold, 2016
© ARS, NY and DACS, London 2025.
Photo: Philipp Scholz Ritterman. Courtesy of the Estate of Robert Irwin

WHITE CUBE

Robert Irwin 1928 — 2023, United States

"Robert Irwin"

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