Luigi Boille: Le Baroque, curated by Italo Tomassoni at the Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea (CIAC) in Foligno. In collaboration with Ronchini and the Boille Archive, the exhibition brings together over 40 works that chart the evolution of one of the foremost figures in European Art Informel. Spanning from the 1950s to the 1970s, large-format paintings and works on paper reflect Boille’s sustained engagement with gestural abstraction and chromatic nuance.

Luigi Boille, Ipercomplesso, 1966

The title Le Baroque, a visual idiom the artist coined himself, is characterised by rhythmic mark-making, vibrant colour, and a distinctive personal language. Balancing compositional discipline with expressive spontaneity, Boille’s work is both structurally refined and emotionally charged. His layered brushwork and tonal modulation evoke a sense of movement and musicality, placing his practice at a unique intersection of lyrical abstraction and baroque intensity.

Luigi Boille, Untitled, 1959

A key contributor to postwar European painting, Luigi Boille (1926–2015) exhibited widely from the 1950s onwards, including at the Guggenheim Museum, the Venice Biennale, and the Hirshhorn Museum.

Boille’s works are held in major public collections, including the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (GNAM) in Rome, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Museo del Novecento in Florence. This exhibition offers a rare institutional overview of Boille’s practice and affirms his position as a singular voice in the history of postwar abstraction.

Installation View of Luigi Boille: Le Baroque, curated by Italo Tomassoni at the CIAC, Foligno © Artvisor

Le Baroque follows a recent renewal of institutional and curatorial attention around Boille’s work. His inclusion in Roma/New York, 1953–1964 at David Zwirner, New York in 2023—an exhibition examining the artistic dialogue between Italian and American artists in the postwar period—has positioned him within a broader reappraisal of transatlantic abstraction. The show highlighted the intellectual and aesthetic exchanges shaping this era. Within this context, Boille’s work stands out for its refined sensibility, offering a compelling counterpoint to the assertive gestures of American Abstract Expressionism through his emphasis on interiority, silence, and gestural nuance.

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Exhibition Information
Luigi Boille: Le Baroque
17 May – 28 June 2025
CIAC, Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea, Foligno
Curated by Italo Tomassoni in partnership with Ronchini and the Boille Archive