Live painting in Milan: private view, private party, brand evening, concert

A private view in Milan

Milan’s private views gather in a few districts. In Brera, the palace of the Academy, where Giulia studied, also houses the Pinacoteca, and galleries, shops and courtyards share the streets around it. In Lambrate, galleries follow one another along via Ventura, via Massimiano and via Conte Rosso, in former industrial spaces. During a private view, Giulia Dal Bon sets up her easel in a corner of the room, away from the walls, and paints while visitors discover the exhibition. The subject can answer the works on the walls, the venue itself or the music of the evening, and the gallery chooses it with her. Giulia is a painter first, and she shows her paintings in art galleries: the evening belongs to the works on show, which keep all their light.

Milan through the year

Every year, Milan lives to the rhythm of its big weeks. In February and September, Fashion Week brings the brands into showrooms and palazzi, and the Ambrosian Carnival, later than anywhere else in Italy, stretches February. In April, Milano Art Week revolves around miart, the art fair held at Allianz MiCo, in CityLife, then comes Design Week: the Salone del Mobile takes place in Rho, and the Fuorisalone spreads through the districts, from Brera to Tortona, from Isola to Lambrate, with the 5VIE around the Duomo as well, where showrooms and temporary venues open to the public.

In May, Piano City Milano brings more than four hundred concerts to the whole city, from private homes to parks, from museums to boats on the Navigli. In autumn the calendar starts again: the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in September, Milano Wine Week in October, then in November BookCity Milano, Milano Music Week and EICMA, the motorcycle show at Rho. On 7 December, the Prima della Scala opens the opera season on the feast of Saint Ambrose, the patron saint of Milan, with the Oh bej! Oh bej! fair around the Castello Sforzesco. Around those dates, galleries, brands and houses receive their guests in the evening, and a live painting gives those evenings a moment the guests take the time to watch, and a canvas that stays with the brand or the host. Giulia speaks Italian, French, English and Spanish: guests who have come a long way talk to her in their own language.

A brand evening, a showroom, a shop in Milan

For the launch of a collection during fashion week, the opening of a shop or an evening in a showroom in Tortona or Brera, Giulia paints in front of your guests a canvas that tells the story of the brand: the flagship product, the material, the logo slipped into the composition, the colours of the house. She studied graphic design at the Brera Academy and draws lettering by hand. The subject is prepared before the day from your references, and you see it in a sketch. The canvas then stays with the brand, and the invoice is made out to the company. For an opening or the private view of a new venue, the page on live painting for a grand opening or a private view explains everything; for a seminar or a convention, the one on corporate live painting in Milan.

Milan and around

Giulia also paints for a wedding in Milan and the Brianza, for a company evening in Milan, and on the walls of the city: the mural in Milan. Around Milan, she travels to Monza, to Bergamo and to Lake Como.

In practice, in Milan

Giulia was born in Segrate and has lived much of her life in Milan: she knows the courtyards, the rooms and the districts where she paints. The length is decided with you, from about twenty minutes to a whole evening. She paints in odourless acrylic, on an easel that finds its place in a corner of a gallery, a showroom or a living room, with a little light if the evening is after dark. She brings the canvas, the colours and the easel, and protects the floor around her. She performs live paintings in Milan, in Lombardy and all over Europe: travel and logistics are agreed together in the quote.

Over several dates. If the format suits you, Giulia comes back: a series of private views, a whole season or a residency of a few days. The quote is then made for the whole, and you set the dates together.