In the international contemporary art scene, the Galleria d’Arte Contini has always stood out for its curatorial vision, which combines rigor, sensitivity, and global perspective. With the exhibition LOVE WILL SAVE US, held at its Cortina d’Ampezzo location from December 27 to April 6, 2026, the gallery reaffirms its role as an authoritative interpreter of the dialogue between art, territory, and the major issues of the present.
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Choosing to bring Lorenzo Quinn’s work to the heart of the Dolomites means giving shape to a specific vision: art as a universal language, capable of speaking to different audiences without sacrificing the depth of the message. The Contini Gallery has thus created an exhibition project that is not limited to presenting works, but creates a context, an experience, a suspended moment in which the viewer is invited to pause, observe, and reflect.
The thirty-five works on display – including sculptures and paintings – depict love as a generative force and collective responsibility. This theme is dear to Quinn, and finds an ideal setting in the curation of the Contini Gallery: balanced, measured, capable of enhancing both the symbolic power of the works and their human dimension. Hands, an iconic element of the artist’s language, become signs of connection, visual and emotional bridges that extend from the individual to the universal.
In this dialogue, the gallery plays a central role: it accompanies the visitor without guiding them, suggesting without imposing, letting the works speak for themselves. It is a recognizable curatorial style, built up over time, which makes every project of the Contini Art Gallery a meeting place between aesthetics and thought, between emotion and awareness.
The context of Cortina d’Ampezzo further amplifies the meaning of the exhibition. Here, where nature imposes silence and moderation, Quinn’s art finds a natural echo. The gallery thus becomes a space for contemplation, a threshold between landscape and interiority, between the majesty of the Dolomites and the fragility of human bonds recounted by the works.
With LOVE WILL SAVE US, the Contini Art Gallery confirms its international vocation and its ability to choose artists who do not pursue provocation for its own sake, but offer a vision. A vision that speaks of unity, responsibility, and hope, and that recognizes art as one of the last authentic places where dialogue is possible.
A project that not only celebrates a world-renowned artist, but also reaffirms the role of the gallery as a living cultural space, capable of interpreting the present and rendering it in the form of beauty that is conceived, shared, and necessary.
Lorenzo Quinn is an internationally renowned Italian-American figurative sculptor, born in Rome in 1966 to Mexican-American actor and Oscar winner Anthony Quinn and his second wife, costume designer Iolanda Addolori. During his years of study at the American Academy of Fine Arts in New York, Quinn realized that, of all the arts, his future lay in sculpture. The communicative power and immediacy of the message are the elements that characterize his works, particularly the monumental public art sculptures that Quinn has exhibited in numerous prestigious international contexts over the past two decades, winning over audiences around the world.
His creations convey eternal values and positive emotions:
“I prefer to continue creating works that inspire love and unity, even though I am aware that the world seems to favor art that promotes controversy and division,” says Lorenzo. “As an artist, as a father, and as a person, I aspire to leave the world in better condition than when I was born. The world is a wonderful but precarious gift, where life on this planet is maintained in a delicate balance.”
Among his most famous monumental works are “Support” (2017), exhibited in Venice—a child’s hands emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to support Ca’ Sagredo, symbolizing the beauty and fragility of the city—and “Building Bridges” (2019), at the Arsenale in Venice — six pairs of hands representing six universally recognized fundamental values: friendship, wisdom, help, faith, hope, and love. “Give” (2020), installed in the Boboli Gardens of Palazzo Pitti in Florence, testifies to the importance of “giving.” Also highly impactful is “Together” (2021), a work of land art first presented in Cannes and then in the exhibition “Forever is Now” in Egypt, on the occasion of the first contemporary art event hosted at the UNESCO site of the Pyramids of Giza; “The Greatest Goal” (2022), created for the World Cup in Qatar. Among his most recent works are “Baby 3.0” (2022), installed in the Garden of the Metropolitan City of Venice, with which the artist hopes for a new rebirth of humanity; “Building Bridges” (2023) in Vieste; “Paint your Life” (2024) in Caorle (Venice); ‘Building Bridges’ (2024) in Marina di Pietrasanta; and ‘Anime di Venezia – Souls of Venice’ (2024), installed in Venice to mark the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo’s death and to coincide with the 60th Art Biennale.
In September 2024, the work “Artisanal Intelligence” conquers the Tod’s catwalk during Milan Fashion Week, while in October “Together” is inaugurated in Muscat. In 2025, “Building Bridges” continues its journey through Italian cities as a symbol of unity and reaches Martina Franca, in Puglia. In May, “Urania’s Passion” is inaugurated in Rome, in collaboration with the Sapienza University City. In June, the giant hands of “Enlightenment” celebrate the union between peoples at the Didrichsen Museum in Helsinki.
Last summer in Forte dei Marmi, in the gardens of Bagno Alpemare, the Bocelli family’s artistic oasis, the exhibition “All We Need Is Love” was held in collaboration with the Contini Art Gallery.
