La Pergola Arte di Firenze (LaPergolaArte) is an art center founded in 2002 based in Firenze, Italy in Tuscany. The cultural center develops visual arts and literature via shows and conferences about renowned artists, poets and writers. It also develops artists, poets and writers whose work is less well known or debuting publicly. The Pergola name was taken from the street where the Cultural organizations had its exhibition place at 45 Red of Via della Pergola near by the famous Teatro della Pergola in Florence.
The membership is approximately 90 poets, painters and authors as well as cultural advocates and sympathizers. Most of the membership is residents of Florence and other Tuscan towns, with some from other Italian regions and some foreign international members. Some of the artists contribute to events and hold elections to nominate honorary members of various fields based on their talent and cultural development of our activities.
La Pergola Arte organizes several artistic and cultural activities yearly. The events are exhibitions and reviews of contemporary fine art, poetry readings, and conference presentations of books including poetry, essays, and novels. A lecture series offers debate and discussion on literary themes, contemporary history, art criticism and art history. It organizes a pictorial prize entitled "The Small Format" and an annual literary prize titled "Lilly Brogi LaPergolaArte" now in its eighth edition.
Literary event; These activities are predominantly organized in Florence and in other Tuscan towns, but have been held in other Italian regions as well as internationally. In the 2006 collective participation of the artists of La Pergola Arte "Fiera Arte" di Padova In 2007 Publishing Catalog Artists Gallery The Pergola Arte of Firenze. In the 2008 auction "Contemporary Masters" organized with the M'Arte Gallery of Pistoia. In the 2008 group exhibition at the Palazzo Panciatichi seat of the regional council of Tuscany. In the 2009 at the Gallery Via Larga Palazzo Medici Riccardi group exhibition of more than 50 Italian artists of the Provincia Toscana.
In the 2010 presentation Anthology "Cento voci verso il cielo" during the Yuri-s night at the Palazzo Panciatichi seat of the Regional Council of Tuscany. In the 2010 the poetic event with Duccia Camiciotti, Lilly Brogi, Vanna Bonta "Da Firenze alle stelle" at the Palace Panciatichi seat of the regional council of Tuscany. In the 2011 the poetic event "Da Firenze alle stelle" 2° edition with Anna Balsamo, Vanna Bonta, Giancarlo Bianchi and Enrico Nistri in the Basilica of San Marco in the Salone Annigoni. In the 2012 the poetic event "Da Firenze alle stelle" 3° edition with Lilly Brogi, Matilde Calamai, Giancarlo Bianchi, Menotti Gaelotti in the Basilica of San Marco in the Salone Annigoni.
In the 2005 Solo Exhibition di Umberto Allori
In the 2007 Group exhibition with: Domenico Asmone, Antonio Barletta, Andrea Bernardoni, Lilly Brogi, Franco Cappelli
In the 2007 “La luce del colore” group exhibition with: Clara Abate, Domenico Asmone, Maria Germana Bargagli Petrucci, Antonio Barletta, Andrea Bernardoni, Alessia Bianchi, Lilly Brogi, Franco Cappelli, Eloisa Scultetus, Donatella Tanzini, Lucia Vettori, Vidà
In the 2007 Arte contemporanea Italiana group exhibition with: Vincenzo Armato, Domenico Asmone, Annalisa Avancini, Antonio Barletta, Andrea Bernardoni, Bespierre, Lilly Brogi, Franco Capelli, Irene Cavazzoni, Enrico Clemente, Pino Conestabile, Massimo Contran, Lucia Corbinelli, Tiziana De Felice, Guido Maria De Filippo, Luisa Delle Vedove, Luca Di Castri, Enzo Fabbiano, Veronica Francione, Franco Frassoni, Gianfranco Gabaldo, Marco Gemelli, Daniela Grifoni, Jos Giuseppe Spinoso, Lusà Luciano Salvadori, Elena Murer, Aurelio Nicolazzo, Antonio Perilli, Dino Sambiasi, Salvatore Sferrazza, Elga Spignoli, Maurizio Valente,
In the 2007 Giovane Arte Europea group exhibition with: Federica Aiello Pini, Matteo Appignani, Michele Boffelli, Elena Bombardelli, Andrea Borgonovo, Loredana Cacucciolo, Teresa Calvano, Giacomo Casprini, Laura Cassetti, Davide Castrechino, Marisella Colombo, Mauro Corvaglia, Valentina Crivelli, Giusy De Nigris, Marco Fontani, Veronica Filippi, Claudia Gollini, Elena Idone, Ilaria Moretti, Simona Mostrato, Movimento artistico pratico materiale, Monica Ogaz, Miria Pafetti, Monica Papagna, Sofia Peotta, Vaclav Pisvejc, Genny Roncaglia, Andrea Scodellaro, Marco Teatro, Yulia Tikhomirova, Sacha Zelenkevic,
In the 2007 Solo exhibition di Verno
In the 2007 Solo exhibition di Nicola Giusfredi
In the 2007 Giovane Arte Europea Continua group exhibition with: Alfonso Auriemma, Sara Bernocchi, Alessia Bianchi, Luca Di Castri, Fabrizio Fontana, Ido Friedman, Laura Balla, Tiziana Longo, Michele Misiano Lastraioli, Jacopo Misiano Lastraioli, Alessandra Mogorovich, Dario Molinaro, Noamio Rachel Murhead, Lorenzo Noccioli, Nadia Perrotta, Angela Policastro, Elettra Porfiri, Vittoria Buben, Helena Sans, Margherita Simonetti, Alessandra Sorge, Diego Soriano.
In the 2007 “Paesaggi Metropolitani” group exhibition with: Cosimo Allera, Alessandro Andreuccetti, Domenico Asmone, Lorenzo Bastianelli, Andrea Brescia, Lilly Brogi, Franco Capelli, Konstantina Daskalaki, Donatella De Palma, Vito Distante, Elisa Maria Teresa Littera, Lo Tangh, Gustavo Maestre, Luigi Mosca, Patrizia Murazzano, Losan Piatti, Michele Principato Trosso, Rusp@, Eleonora Scarpellini, Rosa Spina, Giorgio Tore.
In the 2007 Rassegna di Natale group exhibition with: Elisa Anfuso, Beatrice Apicella, Vincenzo Armato, Domenico Asmone, Dusanka Badovinac, Rossella Baldecchi, Maria Germana Bargagli Petrucci, Antonio Barletta, Fabiola Barna, Andrea Bernardoni, Marta Bernareggi, Cristina Niseema Biagiotti, Alessia Bianchi, Silvia Bolognini, Andrea Brescia, Caterina Brezzo, Lilly Brogi, Paolo Buatti, Claudio Caporaso, Franco Cappelli, Debora Cerra, Susanna De Paolis, Giuseppe Devoti, Roberta Di Iaso, Michela Di Lorenzo, Mara Faggioli, Amelia Ferrari, Franco Frassoni, Rosalba Frega, Nicola Giusfredi, Rosa Maria Indelicato, Ilaria Leganza, Loris Manasia, Diana March, Giuliana Martelli, Maria Matti, Michele Misiano Lastraioli, Dario Molinaro, Shirley Pagnoni, Nana Pikket, Maria Lorena Pinzauti Zalaffi, Vaclav Pisvejc, Laura Rambelli, Brunetta Ricci, Giuseppa Corri Russo, Evelina Tirrito, Alessandra Veccia.
In the 2008 “Maestri Contemporanei” auction with la Galleria M'Arte di Pistoia.
In the 2008 “Testimonianze sul futuro dell'arte” group exhibition with: Elisa Anfuso, Matteo Arfanotti, Domenico Asmone, Massimiliano Benassai, Massimo Breda, Lilly Brogi, Tarquinio Bullo, Franco Cappelli, Stefano Dagna, Simonetta Fanteria, Amelia Ferrari, Rosalba Frega, Bruno Guidotti, Laura Libera Lupo, Giuseppina Martinico Guidotti, Domenico Mauro, Vincenzo Nasuto, Ilaria Pergolesi, Federico Pucci, Fabio Rodio, Valentina Santarelli, Oleg Shchygolev, Massimo Spolon, Jared Antonio Justo Trujillo, Ziqqurat,
In the 2008 “Cromatismo Metropolitano” solo exhibition Franco Cappelli.
In the 2008 Prize Internazionale La Pergola Arte Piccolo Formato 2008 II Edizione
In the 2008 Cultural Meeting “Il concettuale tra Arte e Poesia” Auditorium del Ente Cassa di Risparmio.
In the 2008 “Arte, filosofia di vita” group exhibition with: Domenico Asmone, Andrea Avanti, Maria Germana Bargagli Petrucci, Marco Beraldo, Ina Bianco, Silvia Bolognini, Lilly Brogi, Nello Bruno, Franco Cappelli, Laura Cassetti, Monica Castaldelli, Pasquale Ciao, Domenico Corrado, Francesco Dea, Luisa Delle Vedove, Micaela Delfino, Antonio De Rose, Francesco Falconcini, Elena Faralli, Felice Giancaspro, Andrea Giorgi, Mimmo Guadagna, Patrizia Isetta, Elena Isolani, Irina Karim, Ilaria Eleganza, Iolanda Magnolia, Loris Manasia, Fabio Masciangelo, Paola Mazzanti, Luigi Meregalli, Filip Anton Mihail, George Paul Mihail, Alessandra Mogorovich, Fabiola Murri, Leonor Navas, Maria Grazia Palermo, Annamaria Pastorini, Vaclac Pisvejc, Edri Rama, Alessandro Rietti, Agnieszka Rokicka, Angelo sabato, Giulia Salis, Anna Maria Scocozza, Margherita Simonetti, Sefedin Stafa, Emanuela Romagnoli, Agata Torrente, Rodolfo Vagnoli, Veronica Vallini, Fabrizio Vascotto, Alessandra Veccia, Clelia Vettrici, Antonio Vilasi, Petra Zari Zoro.
In the 2008 Arte Contemporanea Italiana II edizione group exhibition with: Tiziana Abretti, Alessandro Andreuccetti, Domenico Asmone, Andrea Attili, Gennaro Barci, Fabio Massimo Bassan, Bidsvincent, Stefano Bonazzio, Faiza Bourhaleb, Simonetta Briganti, Lilly Brogi, Veronica Cantero, Franco Cappelli, Francesco Dinelli, Henry De Vito, Fabio Dolso, Freeman, Emanuele Gentile, Felice Giancaspro, Andrea Boffi, Alessandra Manfredini, Simona Mostrato, Fabiola Murri, Antonio Perilli, Adolfo Picano, Giovanni Presutti, Eleonora Scarpellini, Adrian Schiopu, Claudia Sejanovich, Francesca Siccardi, Silvio Tempesti, Mauro Trentini.
In the 2008 “Arte in movimento” group exhibition with: Amaranta Antonella Marchesoni, Alessandra Arnoletti, Domenico Asmone, Franco Bastianelli di Laurana, Lilly Brogi, Marcello Brotto, Laura Bruno, Franco Cappelli, Patrizia Cau, Debora Cerra, Chiara Ciccone, Tullio Dalla Piccola, Maria Gambacorta, Giuseppe Manneschi, Stefabo Marchesini, Philip Anton Mihail, George Paul Mihail, Ebe Petronio, Mauro Scalampa.
In the 2008 Arte Contemporanea group exhibition with: Fabio Agace, Domenico Asmone, Cristina Barbarisi, Maria Germana Bargagli Petrucci, Claudio Bartoloni, Lilly Brogi, Franco Cappelli, Massimiliano Cardone, Fortuna Comeo, Enzo Correnti, Dario De Cristofaro, Gianluca Faletti, Federica Filippa, Silvia Gabardi, Daniele Lunghini, Stefano Marchesini, Maria Matti, Paola Mazzanti, Mario Michele Pascale, Massimo Quadrelli, Jadwiga Tabaczynska, Fabrizio Vascotto, Marina Zlender.
In the 2008 Rassegna di Natale group exhibition with: Fabio Agace, Domenico Antonucci, Domenico Asmone, Beatrice Basile, Lilly Brogi, Claudio Caldana, Franco Capelli, Felicita Cavallo, Carla Colombo, Guido Coraggio, Jacopo Da San Martino, Irene Ego, Gianluca Faletti, Elisa Finotto, Nicola Giusfredi, Irena Karim, Silvia Infranco, Carla Lama, Danele Lunghini, Loris Manasia, Marta Mezynska, Alessandra Mogorovich, Christiano Muntoni, Rossella Papacchini, Maria lorena Pinzauti Zalaffi, Luigi Piscopo, Eva Rosenmeier, Marcello Saolini, Yari DG.
In the 2009 11 Mostra Mercato Immagina Arte in Fiera di Reggio Emilia with: Domenico Asmone, Irene Balducci, Lilly Brogi, Blu Kobalto, Franco Cappelli, Carlo De Angelis, Enzo Fabbiano, Fatmira, Marino Lecchi, Saverio Magno, Vincenzo Marano, Anna Maria Masoni, Patrizio Moscardelli, Sabrina Ortolani, Daniela Patrascanu, Fabrizio Pluderi.
In the 2009 Arte Contemporanea Italiana III Edizione group exhibition with: Piero Ardenghi, Domenico Asmone, Michele Boffelli, Letizia Borelli, Caterina Brezzo, Yara Buyda, Franco Cappelli, Claudio Kevo Cavallini, Giovanna Coco, Brunella Fontani, Franca Frittelli, Daniela Gori, Paolo Granchi, Blu Kobalto, Angela Lucarini, Annamaria Maremmi, Anna Maria Masoni, Aldo Miggiano, Christiano Muntoni, Antonio Nuvoli, Flaminia Palma di Cesnola, Daniela Patrascanu, Fabrizio Pluderi, Michele Principato Trosso, Serena Puliti, Edda Voir, Silvio Zago.
In the 2009 Oltre... Nuove proposte per il 2010 group exhibition with: Vincenzo Armato, Domenico Asmone, Claudio Bandini, Flavio Bartolozzi, Sandro Becucci, Alfredo Biagini, Cecilia Bossi, Lilly Brogi, Monica Ciabattini, Gabriele Fastame, Nicola Giusfredi, Thommy Ha, Blu Kobalto, Ilaria Leganza, Ersilia Leonini, Loris Manasia, Vincenzo Marano, Christiano Muntoni, Lorenzo Palombini, Daniela Patrascanu, Vaclav Pisvejc, Fabrizio Pluderi, Mario Prontera, Fabio Rodio, Rusp@ (Gianni Ruspaggiari), Accursio Truncali.
In the 2009 Monocromie Assenza-essenza del colore group exhibition with: Cristina Anna Adani, Domenico Asmone, Lilly Brogi, Franco Cappelli, Giorgia Carraro, Angelo De Boni, Elisabetta Fontana, Daniele Leoni, Daniel Lipschitz, Salvatore Ligotti, Christiano Muntoni, Marina Profumo, Diego Salvatori, Marcello Toma.
In the 2009 "CONTEMPORANEA..... Arte in movimento" Giornata nazionale del contemporaneo AMACI with: Vincenzo Armato, Domenico Asmone, Flavio Bartolozzi, Alfredo Biagini, Lilly Brogi, Yaroslavna Buyda, Claudio Cavallini, Umberto Cesino, Carlo Contegno, Konstantina Daskalaki, Carlo De Angelis, Nicola Giusfredi, Blu Kobalto, francesco lucidi, Saverio Magno, Mauro Marrucci, Patrizio Moscardelli, Christiano Muntoni, Daniela Patrascanu, Vaclav Pisvejc, Serena Puliti, Daniela Scognamiglio, Silvio Zago
In the 2010 Prize Internationale Piccolo Formato La Pergola Arte IV Edizione.
In the 2010 Arte Contemporanea Italiana IV edizione group exhibition with: Andrea Attili, Anna Laura Millacci, Anna Maria Masoni, Bottega Alfredo Biagini, Massimo Pietro Gioviale, Nicola Giusfredi, Maria Lorena Pinzauti Zalaffi, Vaclav Pisvejc, Francesca Sirianni, Mathi Maria Matti, Blu Kobalto, Lilly Brogi, Edda Voir, Vincenzo Marano Rosa, Irene Balducci, Faiza Bourlaeb.
In the 2011 “Oltre, nuove proposte per il 2011” group exhibition with: Blu Kobalto, Claudio Caporaso, Christiano Muntoni, Francesca Sirianni, Gabriele Fastame, Il Bottega Alfredo Biagini, Lilly Brogi, Maria Chernova, Maria Lorena Pinzauti Zalaffi, Martina Brizzi, Mathi Maria Matti, Nicola Giusfredi, Piero Signorini, Serena Puliti, Thommy Ha, Umberto Allori, Vavlav Pisvejc, Vincenzo Greco.
Awarded first edition in 2008: poetry published Rita Santuari, Carmelo Consoli. Antonietta La Morte, non-fiction Daniele Menicucci.
Awarded Second edition in 2009: poetry published Lenio Vallati, Gerardo Alliata, Federica Bianchi, poetry unpublished Lucio Giuliodori, Manuela Pana, Domenico Luiso, fiction published Michele Caruso, Daniele Menicucci fiction unpublished Andrea Masotti, Gabriele Astolfi, Antonio Giordano non-fiction Marta Donati, Carmelo Consoli, Mario De Rosa. Matteo Renzi, Riccardo Nencini, Duccia Camiciotti, Anna Balsamo, Mauro Montacchiesi, Brunella Mallia.
Awarded third edition in 2010: poetry published Roberto Mestrone, Andrea Venzi, Stefano Massetani poetry unpublished Piero Signorini, Lenio Vallati, Marzia Serpi Non-fiction Vanna Bonta, Luca Gilioli, Simone Moretti, fiction unpublished Adriana De Ranieri, Laura Cioni, Laura Poggi fiction published Fausto Sbaffoni, Simone Bergamaschi, Giuseppe Mariano, poetry Giuseppe Blandino, Emanuuela Bertello, Anita Peloso Vallarsa, Giancarlo Bianchi, Mauro Montacchiesi.
Awarded fourth edition in 2011: poetry unplished Andrea Venzi. Leonora Leonori Cecina, Tiziana Monari, Ilaria Parlanti, poetry plished Maria Grazia Coianiz, Manuela Pana, Francesco Gallina, Pamela Mancini, poetry books Giorgina Busca Gernetti, Mario Lopez, Renzo Piccoli, fiction Patrizia Ginobile, Giuseppe Caputi, Alberto Camerano, non-fiction Vincenzo Vavuso, Mauro Montacchiesi, Mario Lopez, Giuseppe Mariano, Special awards Simonetta Lazzerini di Florio, Francesco Billeci, Clara Nistri, Franca Maria Martino, Mario Fantini, Tullio Giacomini, Augusta Romoli, Roberto Bigotto.
Awarded fifth edition in 2012: poetry unplished Silvia Scapinelli, Emanuele Paceschi, Nicola Romano poetry plished Mario Lopez, Matilde Vittoria Laricchia, Grazia Finocchiaro, poetry books Matilde Calamai, Nicola Perasso, Donato De Luca, Anita Peloso Vallarsa, fiction Francesco Gallina, Simona Sgherri, Renata Maria Lucarelli, non-fiction Christian Zanon, Mario Buonfiglio, Ilaria Mainardi, Special awards Margherita Cardarelli, Ileana Tudor, Luciano Ricci, Maria Grazia Carraroli, Beatrice Paci, Achille Abramo Saporiti, Francesco Varano, Ornella Fiorentini, Duccio Corsini, Jolanda Anna Tirotta, Valeria Melissa Aliberti, Patrizia Marzano, Antonella Pericolini, Annitta Di Mineo, Fabio Muccin, Marzia Serpi, Stefano Massetani, Mauro Montacchiesi.
Awarded sixth edition in 2014: poetry unpuplished Katiuscia Pizzo, Emanuele Paceschi, Manuel Merluzzi, poetry puplished Ornella Fiorentini, Loretta Stefoni, Giuseppe Perrone, poetry books Giuseppe Colapietro, Alfredo Vernacotola, Salvatore Colucci, Giusy Frisina, fiction Afrisio Ferretti, Valeria Bellobono, Lorenzo Oggero, non-fiction Alessandro Sarti, Rosario Monti, Margherita Cardarelli, Special awards Franco Costantini, Renzo Piccoli.
Awarded seventh edition in 2015: poetry unpublished Maurizio Bacconi, Emilia Fragomeni, Marco Rossi, poetry puplished Giulia Ciccarese, Maria Cristina Biasoli, Andrea Polini, poetry books Michele Zaramella Casotto, Fiorella Ivone, Mario Castelnuovo, Gabriella Chielli, Emanuele Cortellezzi, Chiara Magliozzo, Mauro Montecchiesi, Daniele Baranini, fiction Ivana Saccenti, Giovanna Potenza, Consuelo Centi, non-fiction Augusta Romoli, Gian Nicola Bisciotti, Christian Zanon, fiction books Alessia Sorgato, Francesco Gallina, Emanuele Corocher, Special awards Paolo Ragni, Patrizia Rasetti, Luciano Gentiletti, Francesco Scaffei, Carla Mussi, Attilio A. Ortolano, Roberto Colonnelli, Roberto Alborghetti, Silvia Ferrari, Alfredo Vernacotola, Giancarlo Gori, Ornella Fiorentini, Menotti Galeotti, Giancarlo Bianchi, Gino Broletti, Fernando Galassi
Awarded eighth edition in 2016: poetry unpublished: first Rocco Pagliani, second Caterina Gianuizzi, third ex aequo: Silvana Stremiz, third ex aequo Caterina Uricchio, poetry puplished first Mario Prontera, second Annitta Di Mineo, third Leonardo Altieri, poetry books first Marco Corsi, second Gianfranco Gaddi, third Fulvia Diotti, fiction first Ileana Tudor, second Andrea Polini, third Daniele Ossola, non-fiction first Giovanni Quaranta, second Angelo Bruscino, third Agostino Sorbara, fiction books first Massimo Orlando, second Alida Palma, third : Fabrizio Giacomini, Special awards Michele Niccolai, Daniele Ambrosini, Cristian Bartaloni, Maria Grazia Rossi, Nazerno Caporali, Emanuele Corocher, Rino Fruttini, Alessandro Sarti, Silvana Vitali, Giuseppina Caramella, Nikla Salsetta Balestra, Ornella Fiorentini, Carlo Campanella
Lilly Brogi is the President, curator and Creative Director of the La Pergola Arte. Among noted critic art on its Board of Directors are Peter Michael Musone.
