Past
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Fetish
Carlo Bella x Colnaghi 13 Nov 2025 - 16 Jan 2026 Colnaghi New York is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition Fetish, the second in a series of collaborations with Carlo Bella. Following Power Figures in May, this exhibition continues the gallery’s initiative to place African and European masterpieces into direct art-historical dialogue through a rigorously researched thematic lens.
The exhibition brings together European devotional paintings and bronzes with ritual figures from Central and West Africa, showing how spirituality is expressed through crafted form. In European art, the body conveys divine suffering and salvation. Works include Luca Cambiaso’s Flagellation of Christ and his drawing Saint Catherine Rescued from the Wheel, Luigi Amidani’s San Sebastiano, Nicolás Enríquez’s Dolorosa, François Girardon’s Marsyas, and Guglielmo della Porta’s Crucified Christ. The African works represent a range of carving traditions from Central and West Africa. These include a Teke buti figure from the Republic of the Congo, and figures by Baule, Senufo, Luba, Bakongo, Hemba, Kongo, Lumbo, Maou, and Losso artists, made from materials such as wood, glass, cowrie shells, metal, and organic matter. Together they demonstrate the variety of forms and techniques through which belief is made material. Read more -
Salon Art & Design
Carlo Bella x Isac Elam Kaid 6 - 10 Nov 2025 Carlo Bella exhibits at the Salon Art & Design running from November 6-10, 2025. His presentation will feature African, Oceanic, Native American and Eskimo art alongside works by Isac Elam Kaid. Read more -
Power Figures
Carlo Bella x Colnaghi 27 May - 13 Jun 2025 Carlo Bella collaborates with Colnaghi on his inaugural New York exhibition on view May 27 through June 13, 2025 at 23 East 67th Street New York NY.
The exhibition will feature African art and 16th-17th century Italian paintings. Read more
