Exhibitions, Italy, Messina, 06 November 2011
Under "OMAGGIO A TAORMINA", conceived and organized by "ARTE & CULTURA A TAORMINA", Sunday, Nov. 6, at 18:30, will be inaugurated at the former - Church of St. Francis of Paola, an architectural jewel of the fourteenth century, "UT PICTURA POESIS", an exhibition of 30 works by Michele D'Avenia, juxtaposed with some lyrics of Salvatore Quasimodo. The exhibition, curated by Giuseppe Filistad and Giuseppe Morgana, offers a route - divided into 4 sections - which takes into account the areas of artistic production of D'Avenia: painting and sculpture.
Twenty years to the day since his first solo exhibition (Palazzo Corvaja, 1991) D'Avenia back to Taormina with this review that aims to analyze the creative and productive through the most significant works that have characterized the rise in the national art scene, making it one of the most respected, sophisticated and sought after interpreters of the New Figuration.
In Taormina will be on display the most important works of last period, marked by a relentless pursuit of light, with particular attention to his favorite subjects: female figures, landscapes and compositions. A section of the exhibition will be devoted to sculpture, the expression "recent" artist, born in Milan, but the Sicilian adoption, with the exhibition, among other things, of "The flip side of sin", Mondadori Art Prize 2004 , and "October 1, 2009", a work of great impact for the flood victims of Messina.
To make the event even more significant, the combination of the works of D'Avenia with some of the poems Salvatore Quasimodo Nobel Prize, selected by Milena Romeo.
From the catalog of the exhibition the intervention:
of curators: Horace, two thousand years ago had already shown in the famous phrase "Ut Pictura Poesis" the strict connection between the poets, so exhaustive in describing emotions, objects or characters to allow readers to figurarseli in their minds as if they were to front of a painting, and painters - and in general the Artists - perceptible feelings that make abstract concepts and with the tangibility of painting or sculpture. Hence the idea of combining an exhibition, held under the project "OMAGGIO A TAORMINA" organized by "ARTE & CULTURA A TAORMINA," the works of D'Avenia with poems by Salvatore Quasimodo. Both, in fact, with varying success but in a gentle, manage to convey the charm and depth of their feelings with words seemingly simple but actually complex, and both manage to think about how even a small gesture or a simple word can become "opera". Both make us rethink the essence of man, the pleasure of little things that are really big and that the reading of a poem or a painting gives us the vision suddenly, after they had become "distant" from the banal everyday.
The temporal and expressive distance between Quasimodo and D'Avenia is canceled, so the willingness of both to express the vitality and harmony through the essential essays and compositions that require an in-depth, and an investigation of a time "long" to grasp the hidden meanings, that does not mean that the immediacy and impact of their works to be sweetened or softened. It means, rather, that the moment of "pleasure" expands, leaving a deep imprint.
Quasimodo had to say (1): "... A poet is that when you do not give up its presence in a given land in an exact time, defined. And poetry is the freedom of time and not abstract modulations of feeling. " So that being modern does not mean only use post-modern means of expression, or, to use a neologism, "2.0" but it is the prerogative of those who, with words or images, can take a concept or a thought even when using tools and materials the great tradition of poetry and figurative, being "present" and current. Always.
Ut Pictura Poesis
Former Church of St. Francis of Paola - S. Francis of Paola, 98039 - Taormina
6 to 29 November 2011
Edited by Giuseppe Filistad and Giuseppe Morgana
General Organization: ARTE & CULTURA A TAORMINA
Coordination: Association Dionysos
Features: Art Promotion Taormina
Vernissage: Sunday, November 6 at 18:30
Opening hours: daily 10-13 and 17-21
Info: www.arteeculturaataormina.it
Twenty years to the day since his first solo exhibition (Palazzo Corvaja, 1991) D'Avenia back to Taormina with this review that aims to analyze the creative and productive through the most significant works that have characterized the rise in the national art scene, making it one of the most respected, sophisticated and sought after interpreters of the New Figuration.
In Taormina will be on display the most important works of last period, marked by a relentless pursuit of light, with particular attention to his favorite subjects: female figures, landscapes and compositions. A section of the exhibition will be devoted to sculpture, the expression "recent" artist, born in Milan, but the Sicilian adoption, with the exhibition, among other things, of "The flip side of sin", Mondadori Art Prize 2004 , and "October 1, 2009", a work of great impact for the flood victims of Messina.
To make the event even more significant, the combination of the works of D'Avenia with some of the poems Salvatore Quasimodo Nobel Prize, selected by Milena Romeo.
From the catalog of the exhibition the intervention:
of curators: Horace, two thousand years ago had already shown in the famous phrase "Ut Pictura Poesis" the strict connection between the poets, so exhaustive in describing emotions, objects or characters to allow readers to figurarseli in their minds as if they were to front of a painting, and painters - and in general the Artists - perceptible feelings that make abstract concepts and with the tangibility of painting or sculpture. Hence the idea of combining an exhibition, held under the project "OMAGGIO A TAORMINA" organized by "ARTE & CULTURA A TAORMINA," the works of D'Avenia with poems by Salvatore Quasimodo. Both, in fact, with varying success but in a gentle, manage to convey the charm and depth of their feelings with words seemingly simple but actually complex, and both manage to think about how even a small gesture or a simple word can become "opera". Both make us rethink the essence of man, the pleasure of little things that are really big and that the reading of a poem or a painting gives us the vision suddenly, after they had become "distant" from the banal everyday.
The temporal and expressive distance between Quasimodo and D'Avenia is canceled, so the willingness of both to express the vitality and harmony through the essential essays and compositions that require an in-depth, and an investigation of a time "long" to grasp the hidden meanings, that does not mean that the immediacy and impact of their works to be sweetened or softened. It means, rather, that the moment of "pleasure" expands, leaving a deep imprint.
Quasimodo had to say (1): "... A poet is that when you do not give up its presence in a given land in an exact time, defined. And poetry is the freedom of time and not abstract modulations of feeling. " So that being modern does not mean only use post-modern means of expression, or, to use a neologism, "2.0" but it is the prerogative of those who, with words or images, can take a concept or a thought even when using tools and materials the great tradition of poetry and figurative, being "present" and current. Always.
Ut Pictura Poesis
Former Church of St. Francis of Paola - S. Francis of Paola, 98039 - Taormina
6 to 29 November 2011
Edited by Giuseppe Filistad and Giuseppe Morgana
General Organization: ARTE & CULTURA A TAORMINA
Coordination: Association Dionysos
Features: Art Promotion Taormina
Vernissage: Sunday, November 6 at 18:30
Opening hours: daily 10-13 and 17-21
Info: www.arteeculturaataormina.it
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