Antonia Jannone Disegni di Architettura

Antonia Jannone started her journey as gallerist in 1977 focussing on a form of artistic expression that had, until then, not yet found a dedicated space: architecture.

She curated her first solo exhibitions of illustrious architects, namely: Leon Krier, Ernesto Bruno Lapadula, Giovanni Muzio, Gabetti & Isola, Aldo Rossi, Alberto Sartoris, Ettore Sottsass, Stefan Wewerka. At that time architectural drawing started emerging from its strictly technical function to become an independent form of art, expressing a poetic concept of the world in its own right (Aldo Rossi, Massimo Scolari, Ettore Sottsass, Arduino Cantafora) in a similar way to G.P.Pannini, Joli or Hubert Robert.

The same was happening for set design, which moved beyond being a mere painted backdrop to become a three-dimensional context intended to create an actual setting, an atmosphere. Shows of work by Nicola Benois, Ezio Frigerio, Pier Luigi Pizzi and others.

Since 1986 this primary focus of Antonia Jannone Gallery has been complemented by a special interest in artists and designers with their own unmistakable language and purpose: Luca Pignatelli, Stefano Faravelli, Livio Marzot, Agostino Arrivabene. In design world: Sergio Cappelli and Patrizia Ranzo, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Luigi Serafini, Borek Sipek, George Sowden and Nicoletta Branzi Morozzi.

Her most recent shows have been dedicated to Mario Botta, Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Busci, Aldo Cibic, Michele De Lucchi, Vittorio Gregotti, Steven Holl, Ugo La Pietra, Alessandro Mendini, Marco Palmieri, Gaetano Pesce, Franco Raggi, Umberto Riva, Alvaro Siza, Ettore Sottsass, Sergei Tchoban, Velasco Vitali and Marco Zanuso Jr and others.