from saturday 12 October till domenica 3 novembre 2024
exhibit
VITTORIO FAVA - Mnemosine. La memoria greca delle arti | Opere dal 1968 al 2024 | Inaugurazione 12 ottobre 2024 | Palazzo Rospigliosi - Zagarolo (RM)
Art & photography
Saturday, October 12, 2024, at 4:00 PM, the solo exhibition Mnemosine - The Greek Memory of the Arts by Vittorio Fava will open at Palazzo Rospigliosi in Zagarolo, promoted by the Purificato.Zero Art Gallery.
The exhibition showcases fifty years of Vittorio Fava's artistic life and research. The title is inspired by Mnemosine, the goddess of memory in ancient Greece, considered the mother of the nine muses, the embodiment of memory itself, revered as the protector of the arts, poetry, and traditions. In dialogue with the eight Renaissance frescoed rooms of Palazzo Rospigliosi-Colonna, one hundred works ranging from painting and sculpture, engravings to assemblages, paper to wood, lecterns to books, furniture to the mobility of his machines will be displayed. The exhibition also includes a visit to the renowned Toy Museum, a highlight of the town, where some of the artist's works will be displayed.
Vittorio Fava navigates through different dimensions, interpreting his work as an immersion in situations of constant change between the figurative and the abstract, always fluid and elusive, even to the point of total liberation from the constraints imposed by conceptual art. An unstoppable journey that, from fantasy to art and from philosophy to concreteness, Fava tells and presents to the public without any reservations, with all the reflections and confessions that his inner and artistic growth have offered him. As the artist himself writes, "the work grows together with the discovery and assembly of materials, day after day, gluing its parts like a loving bond between two lovers. To fight the tough moments of manual work, when sandpaper smooths the wood, I think of being a worker who, in ancient Egypt, smoothes the divine basalt with his sublime patience."
And Enrico Crispolti in the catalog text of the Mnemosyne exhibition at Palazzo Valentini, Rome in 1988: "In a certain way, and indeed in his own way, Vittorio Fava is an experimental artist. But not so much in the sense that one might immediately understand, that is, because in his work he moves from painting to the object, and yet by doing so he retrieves painting, but rather because he is clearly intent on giving himself the freedom to move between different "mediums", from painting to the object, which is also sonorous and luminous, from poetic writing to film, from sculpture to engraving, from the object to the book, to furniture. [...] In fact, Fava is experimental not through language, but I would rather say within language, in its every possible formal and medial determination. [...] The books are objects of surprising complexity of magical, iconic, signifying, material presences, spaces of possible fantastic journeys into the unknown, where surprises are at every step, in every episode of plastic page, in every transition to a vortex or instead in difficult connections between one page and another. The sculpture is connected to the possible lecterns, rich in color interventions, signs. Between sculpture and books and painting, Fava has also created a painted piece of furniture, in the drawers of which there are objects of memory, disparate. Because memory is indeed the means of symbolic evocation: a memory that intertwines the individual dimension with the collective one, in the boundless remote depths of the archetypes."
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog curated by Riccardo Pieroni. During the opening day, after the presentation of the exhibition, the Concert-Spectacle "The Song of the Sirens" by Valeria Salvatores will be performed: featuring Valeria Salvatores on vocals, Massimo Aureli on guitar, with actress Elisabetta Carta.
Vittorio Fava, graduated from the Institute of Art in Rome in the mosaic section and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome (A.Y. 1968). His professors at the Academy were internationally renowned artists such as Renato Guttuso, Mino Maccari, Alberto Ziveri, Franco Gentilini, and critics Antonio Del Guercio and Enrico Crispolti. His works are multifaceted and range from artist's books to paintings, engravings, carved furniture, and painted films. He taught Drawing from Life at the Institute of Art in Anagni (from 1979 to 1988), at the Institute of Art in Roma Tre (from 1995 to 2005). In 2011, he participated in the 54th Venice Biennale, at the Lazio Region pavilion housed in Palazzo Venezia, Rome, directed by critic Vittorio Sgarbi on the proposal of critic Giorgio di Genova. In 2012, he won the Sculpture Prize at the 6th International Biennale of Sacred Art in Lecce and obtained the Special Mention for the "C-Arte" section at the International "Limen Arte" Award in Vibo Valentia. From 1968 to the present day, he has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows in Italy and abroad, with particular reference to the Netherlands, France, the United States, and China. Some of his works are in the MAGI Museum of the Generations of the '900, in Pieve di Cento (RA), in the SACKNER Archive in Miami (USA), in the Museum of the Artist's Book of Caroline Corre in Verderonne (France), in the MACMA, Museum of Contemporary Art in Matino (LE). Significant solo exhibitions at the Church of the Artists, Rome; Museum of Health Art, Rome; Casanatense Library, Rome; Farfa Abbey, Fara Sabina.
Palazzo Rospigliosi/Colonna is one of the most lively and appreciated historical venues for cultural activities in the outskirts of the capital. The sixteenth-century Palace, with its splendid courtyard and its legendary 365 rooms, has been renovated several times by the powerful Colonna family and preserves in its long history the memory of great guests such as Pope Sixtus V, the Domenichino School of Art, Vittorio Alfieri, and Caravaggio. Currently, the palace is owned by the Municipality of Zagarolo, which has been promoting artistic events for several years with the aim of identifying, through the qualification of the territory, valuable personalities with whom to start increasingly engaging and formative initiatives for the citizens. The Palace is also home to the Demoanthropological Toy Museum, the largest in Europe, opened in 2005.
from saturday 12 October till domenica 3 novembre 2024
City: Zagarolo (Roma)
Venue: Palazzo Rospigliosi a Zagarolo
4:00 pm
free entry
Info. 3481800776
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