Renato Vanzelli, Exhibition Zuckermann Palace, Padua

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Renato Vanzelli

From 29 November to 1 March 2026

Zuckermann Palace

Corso Giuseppe Garibaldi 33, Padua

Open now from 10:00 to 18:00

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Over thirty years after the death of the sculptor Renato Vanzelli, the Civic Museums of Padua dedicate a retrospective to the artist that traces his entire creative path. The exhibition, hosted at Palazzo Zuckermann from November 29, 2025 to March 1, 2026, was realized with the contribution of the Cassa di Risparmio Foundation of Padua and Rovigo and the patronage of the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padua. The exhibition, hosted at the Museum of Applied Arts, presents the famous bronze sculptures with which Vanzelli participated since the 1950s in important events such as the Biennale of Triveneta Art, the International Small Bronze Sculpture Prize, and the Biennale of Metal in Gubbio. Alongside the most well-known works, the exhibition highlights for the first time a production that is still little known today, created by the sculptor between the 1950s and 1960s, a period in which Vanzelli was still strongly linked to the Pietro Selvatico Institute of Art in Padua, where he had trained and taught chasing and embossing. Vases, bowls, mirrors, and other objects of applied art highlight the artist's dialogue with figures such as Amleto Sartori, Mario Pinton, and Paolo De Poli, and testify to a design approach that in some respects anticipates the logic of contemporary design. With a series of these objects, Vanzelli participated in the Venice Biennale of 1964. The exhibition criteria adopted prioritize processes, materials, and techniques: exemplary in this sense is the reconstruction of a wall of the laboratory at via Armistizio 256, where the artist elaborated models, sketches, and casts, highlighting the ideational dimension of his work. The path is completed by works from the 1980s and 1990s, in which the sculptor progressively abandoned bronze to dedicate himself to "poor" materials such as wood, lead, silver, and wax, giving life to a new cycle of wall works still based on three-dimensionality and geometric rigor. The retrospective is accompanied by the documentary film by Pierantonio Tanzola that reconstructs the artistic and human story of the author, offering the public an additional and original tool for in-depth analysis.

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