Tapropane Art is excited to announce our second exhibition in Rome, Comfort Culture. 

The Comfort Culture explores why some of us consume the same paintings, TV shows and books time and time again.

There is in the Comfort Culture the inimitable feeling that comes from luxuriating in the familiar. Leafing through heavily annotated passages in books, or returning to a favorite image or poem, we’re reminded that the beautiful can be just as comforting as the wise, scandalous or poignant. You may revisit a painting in a gallery’s permanent collection and find that each time you see it, it appears softer around the edges—kinder, more closely acquainted.

Comfort Culture is an opportunity for artists to exhibit one or more works in the gallery as part of a collective exhibition. These two weeks’ exhibition work well as an introduction to the exhibition experience in a central Rome Galleries and are a comprehensive way of presenting a limited body of work alongside other artists.

The exhibition will run from 9^{th –}  21^st Jan, with an reception on 21^st Sat 6-8PM

The artists in Rossocinabro:  Kimberly Adamis (USA), Brian Avadka Colez (USA), Donia Baqaeen (Jordan), Car Act Air (France), Tracey Lee Cassin (New Zealand), Jean Cherouny (USA), Rebecca Cicchetti (Italia), Nathanael Cox (USA), John Dobson (Australia), Johanna Elbe (Sweden), Ulf Enhörning (Sweden), Gabriella Gentile (Italia), GusColors (USA), Tondi Hasibuan (Indonesia), Linda Heim (USA), Leena Holmström (Finland), Chuck Jones, PhD (USA), Corina Karstenberg (The Netherlands), Rebeccah Klodt (USA), Kirsten Kohrt (Germany), Chikara Komura (Japan), Gil Lachapelle (France), Fiona Livingstone (Australia), Greta Lorimer (Italia), Miguel Marin Ordenes (Chile), Sharlene McLearon (Canada), Tara Mirkarimi (Iran), Andisheh Moghtaderpour (Switzerland), Jean Charles Neufcour (France), Sal Ponce Enrile (Philippines), Luana Stebule (United Kingdom), Christophe Szkudlarek (France), Taka & Megu (Japan), Janusz Tworek (Poland)

The artists in Il Leone Art Gallery: Sergio Alessandrini (Italia), Ciro Borrelli (Italia), Marcelo Fabian Bertolini (Argentina), Demetrio Nicolò (Italia), Giusy Foresta (Italia), Massimo Maffei (Italia), Roberta Matera (Italia), Paula Reschini Mengoni (Argentina), Souske Onoike (Japan), Danilo Pignataro (Italia), Ginco Portacci (Italia), Joanna Maria Sieradzka (Polonia), José Somavilla (Repubblica Domenicana)

Venue:  Rossocinabro Via Raffaele Cadorna, 28 – 00187 Rome Italy Mon–Fri 11am – 5pm (with artists of the Gallery) 

Venue: Il Leone Art Gallery –  Rome, Via Aleardo Aleardi 12. Mon-Thu  10am – 3:30pm Fri-Sat 10am-1pm  3-7pm

Illustrations by Laura Callaghant