Aldo Mondino Artwork valuations, appraisals and auction estimates

(Turin, 4 October 1938 – Turin, 10 March 2005). Fascinated by oriental culture, in 1990 he presented a series at Sperone Westwater in New York which "portrayed" thirty-six sultans who all lived between 1200 and 1920. Read the full biography

Aldo Mondino Biography

(Turin, 4 October 1938 – Turin, 10 March 2005). Fascinated by oriental culture, in 1990 he presented a series at Sperone Westwater in New York which "portrayed" thirty-six sultans who all lived between 1200 and 1920. In 1993, at the Biennale of Venice curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, in a personal room presents a series of large paintings representing dervishes in the act of dancing; on that occasion, authentic dervishes danced in front of the public. In the summer of 1996, Alessandro Bagnai organized an exhibition in Siena, in which Mondino combined two of his passions: bullfighting and the Palio. In 1999 he exhibited at the Galleria Marconi in Milan for the Maimeri Foundation a series of drawings and sculptures on the theme of dance: Arabesque. Two important exhibitions in Milan at the Galleria 1000eventi and one in Rome at the Galleria Sperone entitled The Byzantine World. A common characteristic of these exhibitions is the use only of chocolates made specifically by Peyrano, in Turin. In 2000 he made his first trip to India and created an exhibition entitled Flovers at the Birla Academy in Calcutta. Between 2000 and 2001 Santo Ficara presents a first retrospective of Mondino in Florence. In 2001 the Nuremberg gallery Linding in Paludetto sets up a small but significant exhibition of his works. Among all, worth mentioning is Danaublau, a 6 meter painting made up of 2000 chocolates.