Julian Friedler (Retro Boz), Nicola Pucci (Vertigoland) and Pierpaolo Curti (White Corner) at Palazzo Collicola, Donato Piccolo (Butterfly Effect) at the Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, and Elio Casalino (Onirikon) at the Roman House: these are director Gianluca Marziani‘s proposals for Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts‘ summer exhibitions (included in the official programme of the 59th Festival of Two Worlds), that will open on Saturday 25 June at 12.00. The exhibitions will go on till 25 September, except for Donato Piccolo’s installation at the Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo that will last till 10 July.
Julien Friedler is a peculiar character inside contemporary art. RETRO BOZ explores the author’s complexity: more than 150 works in a travel through time from 1998, year of his debut, to 2016. Paintings, sculptures, installations, phantasmagorical characters showing oneiric, primitive traits, an expressive kaleidoscope that evokes the atmosphere of his Belgian atelier, a gigantic lab with the installation Les Innocents (2000) at the centre, all perfectly reconstructed at Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts.
No better space could have been envisaged for Nicola Pucci‘s personal exhibition, than Palazzo Collicola’s Piano Nobile. Pucci’s sceneries include spaces thick with energy, existing yet abstract, the stage for lightning-quick close encounters, Kubrickian wings with a stop-motion between Giacomo Balla and René Magritte. A mysterious, theatrical, dynamic, ambiguous, realistic yet absurd painting…
To talk Pierpaolo Curti it is necessary to start from his youth, when a professional soccer player. A distant experience from the ascetic rigour of his lonesome paintings. Yet sport is method and discipline, two inputs that define Curti’s figurative genoma. The structure of soccer fields subliminally influences Curti’s optical mechanisms, a rectangle that surfaces through logical hints, metaphorical signs, and traced directions.
In the sacred silence of a Middle-Ages church, imperceptible sounds are amplified, and the depth of time and space can be measured. The third appointment of Opera Celibe, a digital art cycle of installations that has been enlivening the former Church of SS Giovanni e Paolo since 2015, introduces Donato Piccolo‘s Butterfly Effect. Starting from drums-beating butterfly wings, a modular sculpture takes shape, a sort of huge still penetrating the church’s inside till the apse, to finally marry the place.
Elio Casalino‘s “Onirikon” at the Roman House. Casalino uses nighttime to meet the painting face-to-face, he and the disclosed conscience for a dialogue with one’s ghosts, shadows, memories, ideas, priorities, the urge for a theme to face and deal with. Casalino paints at night, inside the soul of the night: he absorbs the Baroque roots of Rome that only shows its true face in the dark, releasing Scipio’s, Mario Mafai’s and Tano Festa’s bloody memory…
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