Icons of Art
Icons of Art
Italian Mosaic Portraits
On view February 15, 2025 - June 15, 2025
The Cornell Art Museum is excited to present its newest exhibition “Icons of Art Italian Mosaic Portraits.”
Through a collaboration with the Naonis Association, this new exhibition will showcase 30 original, one-of-a-kind hand crafted mosaic portraits of famous personalities, representing a variety of cultural fields. Featured artists include Frida Kahlo, Madonna, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sophia Loren, Amy Winehouse, David Bowie, Mohammed Ali, Basquiat and more.
Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts
Exhibition Curators:
The exhibition is curated by Marusca Gatto, Cultural Arts Director at the Delray Downtown Development Authority (DDA), in collaboration with Guglielmo Zanette, Artistic Director of the Naonis Association, creator of the Concorso Mosaic Young Talent, from the prestigious Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli, a world-famous mosaic school.
About the Naonis Cultural Association:
The Naonis Cultural Association, a non-profit institution with headquarters in Pordenone in Northeast Italy, works to develop the mosaic collections by raising funds and finding resources to support young mosaicists by staging exhibitions in Italy and abroad. The artistic director, Guglielmo Zanette, creator of the Concorso Mosaic Young Talent (Mosaic Young Talent Competition) from the prestigious Scuola
Mosaicisti del Friuli, a world-famous mosaic school, created the initiative to support young artists and offer them international recognition to assist them during the difficult period of transition from the world of school to the world of work. Learn more at https://www.naonis.org/.