The exhibition “Domenico Spinosa e la sua Scuola” opens on Friday, 20 November 2026 at Galleria l'Ariete, Via Manzoni 147 in Naples, according to Positano News. The presentation is credited to Carlo Bugli.
The show runs through 28 November 2026 during the gallery's normal opening hours, according to Positano News. The announcement lists normal gallery hours without giving day-by-day times.
It brings together works by Domenico Spinosa and artists described as direct and indirect former students. Those named are Mario Lanzione, Carla Seller, Gaetano Lamonaca, Antonio Ciraci, Guglielmo Longobardo, Aurelio Talpa and Consiglia Giovine, with additional drawings and prints by Salvatore Bossone, Mario Pompei and Roberto Sanchez, according to Positano News.
The exhibition frames Spinosa's legacy through artists who started from Informal art and then developed independent directions, according to Positano News.
Spinosa was born in Naples on 15 August 1916 and died there on 15 February 2007, according to Treccani. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, began teaching in Naples in the 1940s, later taught at the academy's Scuola libera del nudo and held the chair of painting.
His work moved toward a material, chromatic form of Informal painting, incorporating everyday motifs and later abstracting or absorbing them into painterly matter, according to Treccani. An entire room was dedicated to Spinosa at the 1960 Venice Biennale, underscoring his place in postwar Italian Informal art.
A 2010 retrospective at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli presented his development through 25 paintings and drawings spanning 1948–2003, according to Positano News. That exhibition described him as a nationally and internationally significant master of Informal art and set his role in Naples' postwar art history.
