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From the very beginning (with the Stamperia del Borgo Po in 1982), Franco Masoero has combined the two activities of fine art printing with staging exhibitions. Subsequently, he also became an art publisher, producing small monographs in very limited editions, art catalogues often realised with public bodies and, lastly, folio collections of original engravings and valuable artists’ books.
At an early stage his collaboration with artists departed from the confines of Turin to embrace a European field. The exhibitions held in the gallery have been increasingly enriched by participation in the most important international art fairs. Exchanges and shared projects with foreign galleries meant that the Italian artists such as Carol Rama, Nicola de Maria, Enrico Della Torre, Francesco Franco, Piero Ruggeri and so on have been flanked by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Zoran Music, Henri Michaux, Jean Fautrier, James Brown or George Baselitz. The exhibitions often include drawings and paintings and are not merely limited to original prints.
In the end of 2008 Franco Masoero has transformed the rooms of via Giulia di Barolo 13 in "SALOTTO", centre of meetings and exchanges around art. Masoero continues his activity as art worker and merchant and organizes art shows of Carol Rama in other galleries in Italy, Suisse, Austria, France, the Netherlands and Germany. In the end of 2008 he opened a big art show in collaboration with Michele Maccarone at New York.
At via Giulia di Barolo 13 is located even the association Art Motive X.24, coordinated by Alexandra Wetzel, which has started it’s activity on summer 2008 with the public retrospective exhibition at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa "Carol Rama. The Eye of Eyes. Works from 1937 to 2005”.

Galleria Franco Masoero  via Giulia di Barolo 13  10124 Torino  Tel. and Fax +39-(0)11-885933  Business hours: Thursday and Friday 10-12, 16-19, Saturday 16-19