From March 20 to April 15, 2024 Ambrosiana Art Gallery is pleased to present Donald Baechler. Concept is behind , the first exhibition in Italy dedicated to the artist after his death in April 2022.

The exhibition project was born from an idea by Andrea Poleschi and offers a collection of around twenty works created by Donald Baechler starting from the 1990s, with Salzburg 21 (1999, gouache on paper, 35x27 cm) up to his last years of activity with Mint Green Flower (2020, chalk, Flashe and collage on paper, 68x53 cm).

Thanks to the precious collaboration of The Estate of Donald Baechler, with this exhibition Ambrosiana Art Gallery aims to analyze previously unseen aspects of Baechler's art, reading the artist's works from new perspectives: from the relationship between background and foreground to the conceptual nature of his works.

Donald Baechler. Concept is behind is the title of the exhibition; in front of the artist's works, the visitor is invited to go beyond, to find the ingenuity in the details of the background. Baechler asks us to make an effort, he forces our eye not to linger in front of the main subject of the work, but to look beyond it. Here, by stretching our vision, behind a golden tulip, the illustration of a trunk and a stylised iris emerges ( A Harvest Of Ambiguity , 2008, chalk, Flashe and paper collage on paper, cm 132x101.6). Behind an ice cream cone we see caricature portraits appear ( Charter Oak Terrace (Green) , 2007, acrylic and fabric collage on canvas, cm 101.6x101.6). In this way Baechler uses his work as an opportunity to tell his story, integrating personal memories with elements of popular and everyday culture.

The exhibition, which will run from March 20 to April 15, 2024, will also embrace the exciting Milan Art Week, scheduled for April 8 to 14.

The project is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue (Italian-English), with a critical text by Rossella Farinotti, in which all the works present in the exhibition are reproduced.