giuseppe simonetti "strutture silenti" - invitation au voyage...

REGIONE SICILIANA
ASSESSORATO BENI CULTURALI,
AMBIENTALI E PUBBLICA ISTRUZIONE
Dipartimento dei beni culturali e ambientali,
dell'educazione permanente e dell'architettura e dell'arte contemporanea
ASSESSORATO TURISMO, COMUNICAZIONI E TRASPORTI

giuseppe simonetti "strutture silenti"

by
MARINA GIORDANO

PRAGUE
Chapel of the Italian Cultural Institute

March 19 April 9, 2010
Thursday, March 18th, 2010 18:00



THE SHOW

The show will be displaying twenty square-shaped paintings on canvas from the artist’s recent production up to his latest dated 2010. These works embody the evolution in the artist’s pictorial language. Through his experience, and faithful to contemporary visual exploration, he reaches his maturity focusing his attention on the theoretical dilemma of reconciling abstraction and anti-naturalism with figurativism, a quest in which color plays a key role.


“Often known as a painter of skies, Simonetti can also be defined at the same time as a painter of the earth: on the one hand, Daedalus, who makes wings for Icarus to challenge the heights of the sky and infinity; on the other, a speleologist or, better yet, a rhabdomancer who casts his stick in the search for depth, for an abyss, a source of life to be found in the midst of desert-like scenarios almost like a sort of day-after.
[…] under the prevailing abstract grammar of his language, Simonetti disguises a sublimed figuration, the creation of landscapes of unknown places, revealing it only in some cases and drafting with sparse traces a fantastical tale, the scenery for a mise –en- scène, which anyone can write, work out, invent and tell”.
Marina Giordano

THE ARTIST

Giuseppe Simonetti (Palermo 1953) has been engaged in his artistic quest since the 1970’s. He teaches painting and holds the chair of Visual Education at the Arts Institute of Palermo. His works have been displayed at major exhibitions in Italy and abroad and in many personal art exhibitions. In 2004, together with Japanese Maestro Nabuhiko Yoshizumi, he created two large kites for the Art Kite Museum’s International Collection curated by Paul Eubel. His works can be found in private collections and museums in Italy and abroad. Two of his works have been recently bought by the Würth Collection for the Würth Museum in Künzelsau.
He lives and works in Palermo.


INFO:
The Exhibition
Italian Cultural Institute
Šporkova 14
118 00 Praga 1
Tel.: +420 257 090 681
Fax: +420 257 531 284
www.iicpraga.esteri.it
e-mail: iicpraga@esteri.it

The exhibition will be open until April 9, 2010
Hours: Monday-Thursday, 10 AM -12 PM, 3 PM – 6 PM Friday, 10 AM – 12 PM

www.giuseppesimonetti.com
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simonetti.giuseppe@tiscali.it
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