"The Color of Memories" exhibition by Lino Petrelli at Frame Ars Arte, curated by Paola Pozzi with text by Domenico Natale. Vernissage on October 23rd at 7:00 pm, in Naples at Corso Vittorio Emanuele 525. Until October 31st. Info: framearsartes@libero.it, 333.4454002.
Inspired by the studies on color by French art historian and anthropologist Michele Pastoureau and the reflections of Albert Einstein on the soul and emotions, Lino Petrelli's exhibition "The Color of Memories" curated by Paola Pozzi is hosted by the Frame Ars Artes gallery in Naples. Critical text by Domenico Natale. Vernissage on Wednesday, October 23rd at 7:00 pm, at Corso Vittorio Emanuele n.525. Until October 31st. Info: framearsartes@libero.it, 333.4454002.
"If feelings, memories, emotions, and sensations had a color, the soul would be a rainbow that encompasses them all, like when it bends to embrace the water of an unstoppable, scary, and fascinating waterfall, giving birth to poems" (Albert Einstein).
Is there an image from our childhood that has remained impressed in our mind for a particular shade? Michel Pastoureau starts by answering this question in the first person, the foremost expert in the history of colors, and continues by tracing the fundamental chromatic stages of his life... the first: a bicycle, a despised ugly blue jacket, the high school soccer team uniform, the scandalous red pants of two schoolmates...
"The idea for this exhibition dates back to 2019, but it has matured in the last 3-4 years. I am very interested in observing nature and representing the transformation and decay over time of elements that are in one way, but in an instant are totally changed," the artist tells. Colors are further confirmation of how our life is made of tangible, measurable, objective, obvious realities, "black or white," but what truly makes it memorable are the personal nuances: those elusive, indescribable, and perhaps never existed shades that color memories, emotions, dreams.
"Every color has its meaning and precise connection, just as every emotion has its color: with emotions, memories, dreams, Lino Petrelli gives voice and light to his canvases!" says gallerist Paola Pozzi.
"One cannot speak of Lino Petrelli's works in isolation from the context in which they are born: starting from his home-studio in the Spanish quarters: a Wunderkammer of art books, paintings, plants, open to the Spanish quarters, overlooking a labyrinthine geometry of inner courtyards, pavements, loggias, balconies and windows counteracted by gardens and flowerbeds laid out among the arches of baroque staircases and solar panels between asphalt squares and brick embrices," writes artist and critic Domenico Natale.
A painter and sculptor, his traditional oil painting technique evolves continuously towards a graphic sign, which opposes the use of the material beauty of minerals and plants to ancient, Mediterranean themes and echoes, which come directly from ancient Egypt or from the sacred colors of Byzantium.
His works, born in a place that seems tailor-made to recall the principle that there is no artistic communication that does not manifest in the complexity of history, synthesis of the pain and joy of living, which delimits, almost like a border line, the past of family memories and the present of his works scattered everywhere, awaiting their definitive completion. For this reason, perhaps, his works can be read as a space in their entirety.
The use of collage and often assembled supports characterizes the language of this artist who generates swarms of insects and flocks of birds wandering in the space of the work, derived from individual cut-out drawings and composed in their different ensembles as if to give a vitalistic temporal scan of the becoming of the work and its possible meanings. "The representation of memory through indelible colors and signs is opposed by collages. Their ephemeral and random nature I believe defines certain aspects of memory, like the part that will vanish over time, and I believe the birds define this idea in the most effective way," emphasizes Petrelli.
Neapolitan, born in 1946, Lino Petrelli has exhibited at galleries and historic places in Italy such as the Inter Arte gallery in Milan (1986), the Arsenals of the Republic of Amalfi (1987), Horti Fair in Amsterdam (2004), Euroflora in Genoa (2006), Padova Fiere (2012) and in Naples, at Villa Pignatelli with installations in 2003, at the San Martino Museum in 2004, at the Fashion Museum of Palazzo Mondragone, at Città della Scienza, in the English Garden of the Royal Palace of Caserta, at the Campania Vinitaly pavilion and at the Giffoni Film Festival in 2005, at the Pinaider Gallery in 2006, at Tarì in Marcianise and at the Capodimonte Museum in 2007.
"The Color of Memories" exhibition by Lino Petrelli
Wednesday, October 23 - Thursday, October 31, 2024
At FRAME ARS ARTES - Naples, Corso Vittorio Emanuele n. 525
Opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday 4:00-7:00 pm or by appointment
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