(by Nicoletta Castagni).
A number of new exhibits are opening
across Italy over the weekend.
They will showcase art ranging from the most recent works by
Mimmo Paladino, who has played a central role in developing the
Transavantgarde movement, opening in the Tuscan town of
Pietrasanta near Lucca, to a show on the art of seduction and
power in the Umbria town of Gualdo Tadino.
A show on 20th-century sculptures from Venice's International
Gallery of Modern Art Cà Pesaro is opening in Mestre.
PIETRASANTA (LUCCA) - The exhibit 'Mimmo Paladino. Opere
scelte', or chosen artwork, is opening in the new spaces of
Pietrasanta's Gallery Giovanni Bonelli.
The show runs from July 29 until September 10.
Paladino's art features Greek-Roman, Etruscan and early
Christian symbols represented in geometric patterns, heads and
hands, houses, numbers, stars and vases in compositions in which
space and time are blurred in a primitive universe with a
contemporary feel.
Artworks on display include mixed techniques and collages on
wood from 2013 representing planets, musical geometries and
poetic reflections on humankind.
Paladino started honing this type of technique 20 years ago
and his most interesting works include the 1999 triptych
currently at the Museum of Rivoli.
GUALDO TADINO (PERUGIA) - A show opening at the monumental
church of Saint Francis on July 29 through December 3 is called
'Seduzione e potere. La donna nell'arte tra Guido Cagnacci e
Tiepolo' (Seduction and power. Women in art from Guido Cagnacci
to Tiepolo).
Curated by Vittorio Sgarbi, the show includes 30 artworks by
Italian masters from the 16th to the 18th century including
Mattia Preti, Luca Giordano and Giambattista Tiepolo.
The masterworks were selected for their different
representation of women and the relationship between power and
seduction.
The women featured in the artwork on display evoke both
mysticism and sensuality.
They include the ecstatic femininity of the 'Magdalene
carried to heaven by angels' painted by Francesco Cairo or 'The
Death of Cleopatra' by Guido Cagnacci as well as the softly
enticing beauty of 'Spring' by Rosalba Carriera or the
victorious 'Triumph of Amphitrite' by Giambattista Tiepolo.
MESTRE (VENICE) - The show 'Gruppo di famiglia' , or family
group, is a selection of sculptures from the International
Gallery of Modern Art Cà Pesaro in Venice in Forte Marghera.
The exhibit, which runs from July 28 through November 26,
vies to promote Venice's contemporary art by showcasing
20th-century sculptures through the work of artists including
Trentacoste, Meunier, Bernard, Manzù, Emilio Greco, Libero
Andreotti, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Alberto Viani, Lorenzo Guerrini,
Arman.
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