Exhibitions, Italy, Ascoli Piceno, San Benedetto del Tronto, 20 September 2009
On Sunday 20th September at 6.00 p.m. Marconi Gallery of Cupra Marittima presents the first appointment of the exhibitions I don't know and I don't want to know.Giuseppe Restano sole exposition is opening the series of exhibitions of 2009-2010 season and it is organized in cooperation with the gallery White Project of Pescara. The exposition is curated by Renato Bianchini with the critical text by Francesca Baboni.
“Giuseppe Restano tells his sea. He does it using his characteristic and very refined technique, which draws him close to a pop vision for the chosen daily iconography but, at the same time, to an hyper realistic figure, typical of a pictorial tradition of a very high level. Few elements are selected in order to sketch his personal and refined sea landscape: visual signs and geometrical lines are matching, they get dismantled and reassembled in order to make parts of canoes, foreshortened roofs of huts, legs sunbathing. They are details that take a universal and archetypal meaning in the representation of a quite metaphysical look, without having a clear highlighting". (Francesca Baboni)
I don't know and I don't want to know isn't just an answer, it's also a provocation, an attitude and, after all, a kind of agnosticism, that about art we could say cultural. It is a way to face the great questions about mankind: where do we come from? Where do we go? Why sorrow? Why baked potatoes are never enough?
An answer which is often convenient, sometimes upsetting. It expresses the will of ignorance, that is very far from the Socratic statement following which, the real wise man is the one who knows he doesn't know. There isn't any will for knowledge, no curiosity, only detachment and indifference.
This sentence is often made in front of an art proposal and it hurts a little. The one who says it may seem a bit out of the time, but he really is often one of the not too much silent majority.
It would now be legitimate to answer the question: why such a title for a program of expositions?
The answer is already in the title, after all.
scheda tecnica/technical card
curatore/curator by Renato Bianchini
testo critico/art critic by Francesca Baboni
ufficio stampa/ press agent Dario Ciferri
traduzione di/translation by Patrizia Isidori
relazioni esterne e promozione delle attività/ external relationship and promotion of activities Stefania Palanca
fotografia/photography Marco Biancucci©
riprese video/video shooting Stefano Abbadini
allestimenti/preparation Marco Croci
webmaster http://www.siscom.it
dal 20 settembre al 18 ottobre
from 20th september to 18th october
orario: lunedì-sabato dalle 16 alle 20
opening time: Mon-Sat 4 to 8 p.m.
Galleria Marconi di Franco Marconi
C.so Vittorio Emanuele, 70
63012 Cupra Marittima (AP)
tel 0735778703
e-mail galleriamarconi@vodafone.it
web www.siscom.it/marconi
“Giuseppe Restano tells his sea. He does it using his characteristic and very refined technique, which draws him close to a pop vision for the chosen daily iconography but, at the same time, to an hyper realistic figure, typical of a pictorial tradition of a very high level. Few elements are selected in order to sketch his personal and refined sea landscape: visual signs and geometrical lines are matching, they get dismantled and reassembled in order to make parts of canoes, foreshortened roofs of huts, legs sunbathing. They are details that take a universal and archetypal meaning in the representation of a quite metaphysical look, without having a clear highlighting". (Francesca Baboni)
I don't know and I don't want to know isn't just an answer, it's also a provocation, an attitude and, after all, a kind of agnosticism, that about art we could say cultural. It is a way to face the great questions about mankind: where do we come from? Where do we go? Why sorrow? Why baked potatoes are never enough?
An answer which is often convenient, sometimes upsetting. It expresses the will of ignorance, that is very far from the Socratic statement following which, the real wise man is the one who knows he doesn't know. There isn't any will for knowledge, no curiosity, only detachment and indifference.
This sentence is often made in front of an art proposal and it hurts a little. The one who says it may seem a bit out of the time, but he really is often one of the not too much silent majority.
It would now be legitimate to answer the question: why such a title for a program of expositions?
The answer is already in the title, after all.
scheda tecnica/technical card
curatore/curator by Renato Bianchini
testo critico/art critic by Francesca Baboni
ufficio stampa/ press agent Dario Ciferri
traduzione di/translation by Patrizia Isidori
relazioni esterne e promozione delle attività/ external relationship and promotion of activities Stefania Palanca
fotografia/photography Marco Biancucci©
riprese video/video shooting Stefano Abbadini
allestimenti/preparation Marco Croci
webmaster http://www.siscom.it
dal 20 settembre al 18 ottobre
from 20th september to 18th october
orario: lunedì-sabato dalle 16 alle 20
opening time: Mon-Sat 4 to 8 p.m.
Galleria Marconi di Franco Marconi
C.so Vittorio Emanuele, 70
63012 Cupra Marittima (AP)
tel 0735778703
e-mail galleriamarconi@vodafone.it
web www.siscom.it/marconi
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