Gruppo del Cenobio

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Gruppo del Cenobio was a Milan-based artists’ collective formed in 1962 by five painters—Agostino Ferrari, Ugo La Pietra, Ettore Sordini, Angelo Verga and Arturo Vermi—plus the poet Alberto Lùcia. They named themselves after the Galleria Il Cenobio in Milan, where they held several exhibitions in 1962. The group then showed at La Saletta del Premio del Fiorino in Florence, L’Indice in Milan, and Galleria Cavallino in Venice. They came together to oppose nihilistic and overly critical approaches to painting and the rise of American Pop Art. In March 2013, a major retrospective, Nel segno del segno, was staged at Palazzo Stelline in Milan to mark the fiftieth anniversary of their first exhibition.