The Lunetta11 gallery was set up as recently as 2019, in line with Claudia Zunino and Francesco Pistoi’s wish to bring contemporary art to an old village in the Langhe. Following the family tradition, Francesco Pistoi – son of the gallerist Eva Menzio and the art critic and gallerist Luciano Pistoi – chose as his exhibition venue a location that is decentralized but open to cultural exchanges at an international level, in the heart of the Alta Langa area. 

The gallery is always on the lookout for emerging talents in contemporary art, who it places alongside established artists, as in the opening exhibition of the gallery, which featured Giulio Paolini as the spiritual father of five young artists; or more recently, in 2023, when in the exhibition Giovani cuori correte liberi (Young Hearts Run Free) the canvases of Pierluigi Scandiuzzi and Lorenzo Modica were juxtaposed with the works of Tano Festa and Mario Schifano. 

In addition to its classic gallery activities, Lunetta11 organizes exhibition projects in historical locations of the local area: villages, sanctuaries, chapels, churches and palazzi, preserving them and letting them vibrate with new life. Over the years, its deep-rooted relationship with the Langhe has led to the creation of exhibition projects that promote contemporary art in an area rich in natural beauty, broadening its cultural offer and reaching out to a varied and increasingly international audience. 

Since 2022, the gallery has been involved in the Casa Gramsci cultural project: a room used for social purposes in the NH Collection Torino Piazza Carlina hotel, once the home of Antonio Gramsci, the founder of the Italian Communist Party. In the room, which is at once a venue and a work of art by Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar, exhibition projects alternate, each one accompanied by the publication of “Made in Popolo”, a manifesto devoted to Gramsci’s propaganda activities.