Exhibitions, Italy, Arezzo, 31 August 2013
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INVITATION + LINKS TO CATALOGUES: http://t.co/CiQl51VRe5
___________________________________
___________________________________
PRESS RELEASE
(ITALIANO // ENGLISH)
VILLICANA D’ANNIBALE GALLERIA D’ARTE • AREZZO
INAUGURATION:
Saturday, August 31 at 6pm
with the presence of the masters
presentation curated by art historian Liletta Fornasari
EVENT:
Exhibit of painting and sculpture
ARTISTS / TITLE:
The Real and Fantastic Visions of Silvestro Pistolesi and Rino Giannini
curated by Liletta Fornasari
EXHIBIT DATES:
Saturday, August 31 – Tuesday, September 10, 2013
LOCATION:
Villicana D’Annibale Galleria D’Arte
via Cavour 85 - Arezzo … NEW LOCATION!
INAUGURATION:
Saturday, August 31, 2013, at 6pm
with the presence of the masters
presentation curated by art historian Liletta Fornasari
SPECIAL EVENT IN THE GALLERY:
CONCERT
Svitlana Buderatska, soprano
and Franco Meoli, piano: Ukrainian Songs
Saturday, September 7, 2013 at 6pm
CATALOGUE:
curated by the Villicana D’Annibale Galleria D’Arte
critical texts by Liletta Fornasari
visible on our website at http://www.villicanadannibale.com/books
INFO:
FREE ENTRANCE
Open Tuesday to Saturday from 4pm to 8pm, or by appointment
and the first Sunday of the month and previous Saturday from 11am to 8pm
Cell. +39 338 6005593
E-mail: danielle@villicanadannibale.com
Web: http://www.villicanadannibale.com
ORGANIZATION:
Artistic Director and Gallerist Danielle Villicana D’Annibale
Light Designer & Installation Maurizio D’Annibale
Graphic Project Riccardo Terziani & Marco Moneti
Copy Service D/Sign (AR)
PRESS AGENCY:
Villicana D’Annibale Galleria D’Arte
Journalist Marco Botti
+39 338 6005593 / +39 347 5489038 - danielle@villicanadannibale.com
SPONSOR:
Villa Margherita a Paradise for Artists in Tuscany
___________________________________
PRESS RELEASE
The real and fantastic visions of Silvestro Pistolesi and Rino Giannini
Two Tuscan masters exhibit in Arezzo from August 31 to September 10, 2013
Celebrating the beginning of a new season of exhibits, the Villicana D’Annibale Galleria d’Arte is moving to a new and larger location, not distant from the previous location, at via Cavour 85, adjacent to Piazza Badia (Badia Square).
The new gallery will be inaugurated August 31, 2013 at 6pm, with the exhibit of two noted Tuscan masters – painter Silvestro Pistolesi and the sculptor Rino Giannini – entitled The real and fantastic visions. The exposition, curated by Liletta Fornasari, will continue free of entrance until Tuesday, September 10, 2013.
Present will be approximately twenty recent works of art of the Florentine master, including landscapes, seascapes and portraits, eight sculptures in marble, terracotta and various materials, portraits and boats of the sculptor from Versilia.
Events in the gallery of the “double solo exhibition” include, Saturday September 7 at 6pm, the concerto of the “Ukrainian Songs” with the soprano Svitlana Buderatska, accompanied by piano by Franco Meoli.
It is a great honor for the gallery to present two masters, active for more than fifty years and appreciated in all the world. Silvestro Pistolesi, master and follower of the school of Pietro Annigoni, and Rino Giannini, sculptor and professor on retirement from the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara.
The two artists share excellence, fantasy and passion, characteristics that the Villicana D’Annibale Galleria D’Arte dedicate to the young artists of today, ready to begin the new scholastic year, with the hope to inspire them in the research and the study of the great Tuscan figurative tradition.
Silvestro Pistolesi is an indisputable leader in the almost forgotten techniques of the Florentine school. His figurative modern-renaissance style translates fantastic movement in his paintings created in the studio with tempera grassa, as well as his oil studies painted from life flooded with light, and then to achieve the maximum expression in the realization of large walls painted with the fresco technique.
His recent production is of works of small format, splendid views of maritime cities where the painter finds refuge from the hot summers of Florence, and where he contemplates the profoundness of nature and the horizon.
Other works selected for Arezzo are fruit of his fantasy, fantastic places of a world that doesn’t accept nor promote modernity, as the large painting created with the technique typical of the bottega of Annigoni, of tempera grassa on board, in which a hermit watches a hot air balloon which flies high in the sky.
Liletta Fornasari, art historian and curator of the exhibit, describes the work of the master in the critical text presented in the catalogue for the exhibit, “Visions of a romantic flavor are the essential elements of the figurative syntax of Pistolesi, an artist gifted of a profound sensibility, transferred by himself in an extraordinary ability to express, and not only interpret the light, making of this last a sacred element, indispensable and expanded, as if all could overstep the true limits of vision, although harmonizing the luminous effect to the story that each little painting in the exhibit would like to halt in perceptive moments, according to a rapid sequence and a reading without breaking, but rich in allusive and symbolic meanings.”
Next to the art of Pistolesi will be a selection of exquisite sculptures created by Rino Giannini, a great experimenter of marbles and painted terracotta which he successfully translates with innate sensibility the light of Versilia in his works. Liletta Fornasari, curator of the exhibit, describes his work, “Sufficient are the eight sculptures, between marbles and terrecotte, on display in the exhibit, to understand the explorative practice completed by Rino Giannini, artist continually occupied with the research of forms and new concepts, as well as capable of conducting his activity for approximately twenty years as professor of Technique of marble at the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, creating a perfect junction between his will to experiment experiencing cultures and moments of thought extremely different and the necessity to teach the art of sculpture respecting the authentic rules…”
Amongst the works of art present in Arezzo are included ships, portraits, female figures such as that of the polychrome marble entitled Venice, or the painted terrecotte sculptures such as Hatanor, where man and woman achieve unity.
The capacity of Giannini in the sculptural arts has no limits. Having taught for many years in one of the most prestigious academies in the world, he was able to pass on his mastery to generations of students.
An interesting fact: in 1984 the artist was one of the experts called in to resolve the scandal of the three heads found dredging the Fosso Reale (Royal Moat) of Livorno, attributed to Modigliani, but then found to be fruit of a joke played by some university students. Giannini still contests the declarations of the students from Livorno, with concepts and demonstrations, the incredibility of their affirmations; with the comfort of other experts, he continues to affirm that "Modì 2" remained immersed in the water for various “lustri” (five-year periods).
Pistolesi and Giannini: two artists, two artisans but above all two great masters sure to illuminate the long Aretine summer.
Biography Silvestro Pistolesi:
Silvestro Pistolesi was born in Florence in 1943 and from a very early age demonstrated his artistic inclination, attending first the Graphic Art section of the Institute of Fine Arts at Porta Romana, and later the School of Publicity of the “Leonetto Capiello” Institute. His apprenticeship began with the frequenting of the studio of the painter Nerina Simi. At the same time, he enrolled in the course the Nude at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. Afterward he met who would be his great master: Pietro Annigoni. He began frequenting his studio, from 1963, and there his true artistic formation took place. His first solo exhibit was in 1972 at the Arts Unlimited Gallery of London, a complete success, and he was proclaimed a talent of international fame. Since then he has exhibited in numerous Italian cities and abroad. The artist has painted portraits of famous people, like that of Pope Giovanni Paolo II, and works of great relevance in locations such as the Abbey of Montecassino, the sanctuary of La Verna, the Abbey of Vallombrosa, the hospital “Don Gnocchi” of Scandicci and the church of the Transfiguration of Cape Cod in the United States. Noteworthy of his recent activity in 2012, to mention are his solo exhibition at the “Casa Rossa” in 2012 and the realization of the portrait of Giuseppe Betori, archbishop of Florence. In the spring of 2013 an exhibit of his work was held Villa Rufolo in Ravello (Sa).
Words written about the artist:
“…Pistolesi is a worker with a long training behind him, the kind of training that once begun has no end for the true artist; and he has already acquired skills that are at times exceptional, as may be seen in various works of his… Certainly it is difficult in this day and age to find among painters of his generation someone who is not only opposed to the currents of fashion or better still feels outside it all, but one like him who has also isolated himself in an apparently anachronistic “world of his own”, so full of accents and meanings that together assume symbolical value: the symbol of a coherent regret that one can feel only today… ”.
(Pietro Annigoni, painter)
Biography Rino Giannini:
Rino Giannini was born in Pietrasanta (Lu) in 1939 and grew up in the surroundings of the working of marble. After various experiences, he decided to dedicate his time to sculpture and received a diploma from the Art Institute of Pietrasanta. As a professional sculptor, he obtained many important commissions amongst which is notable the portrait of Father Ciampicon for the Church Chiesa Dei Servi di Maria di Massa, four sculptures of Oranti for a chapel of a cemetery of Staglieno (Ge), the official portrait of Federico Milkovich, founder of the U.I.L.M.D., the portrait of Henry Laurens for the Historical Society of Charlestown and the Madonna with Child for the House of the young child of Seycelles, the monument for the commercial area of Seano (Prato) and the commemorative sculpture of Mr. Moulin and Charles De Gaulle for Cannes in the French Riviera.
In 1975 he was invited to teach and became professor of the course entitled "Techniques of marble" in the School of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, where he taught for twenty years. Today the artist continues to sculpt in his studio entitled the Superior School of Sculpture of Pietrasanta.
Giannini is also an organizer and curator of artistic events, and he was invited to sculpt in symposiums and other manifestations of figurative nature in the entire world (France, Spain, Greece, Switzerland, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the United States).
Words written about the artist:
“…The artisan and the sculptor live as one and merge. That is not to say to only to maneuver instruments, but to see with attentive and expert eyes which go beyond the surface. In this sense, even for marbles of modest dimensions, often times chips, small irregular blocks which were given to students we find the difference between the artist and the machine in which the artisan is endowed…”.
(Daniela Grassellini, professor of contemporary art history)
___________________________________
VILLA MARGHERITA A PARADISE FOR ARTISTS IN TUSCANY
ART GALLERY • INTERNATIONAL ART CLUB • ART WORKSHOPS + ENGLISH
The Villicana D’Annibale Art Gallery believes in the importance of promoting contemporary art.
Be a part of contemporary art…it’s simple and fun!
The sponsor of the initiative is Villa Margherita a Paradise for Artists in Tuscany, a project created by Danielle Villicana D’Annibale, artist and gallerist. The Californian has a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and the Visual Arts from the United States, a diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome (Accademia di Belle Arti Roma) and obtains a TEFL diploma for Teaching English as a Second Language. At Villa Margherita, Danielle offers courses in drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, sculpture and English.
All are welcome to visit and discover our creative world, full of flowers and Tuscan colors, immersed in the nature of Alpe di Poti. Join the Villa Margherita International Art Club, membership is free! More information is available on our website http://www.villicanadannibale.com or by calling Danielle directly at +39 338 6005593.
______________________________
______________________________
CATALOGHI DELLA GALLERIA: http://www.VillicanaDAnnibale.com/books
______________________________
ISCRIVITI ALLA NOSTRA MAILING LIST: http://www.VillicanaDAnnibale.com/contact
FAI PARTE DELL'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA AD AREZZO!
______________________________
GALLERY CATALOGUES: http://www.VillicanaDAnnibale.com/books
______________________________
SIGN UP FOR OUR MAILING LIST: http://www.VillicanaDAnnibale.com/contact
_____________________________
BE A PART OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN AREZZO!
INVITATION + LINKS TO CATALOGUES: http://t.co/CiQl51VRe5
___________________________________
___________________________________
PRESS RELEASE
(ITALIANO // ENGLISH)
VILLICANA D’ANNIBALE GALLERIA D’ARTE • AREZZO
INAUGURATION:
Saturday, August 31 at 6pm
with the presence of the masters
presentation curated by art historian Liletta Fornasari
EVENT:
Exhibit of painting and sculpture
ARTISTS / TITLE:
The Real and Fantastic Visions of Silvestro Pistolesi and Rino Giannini
curated by Liletta Fornasari
EXHIBIT DATES:
Saturday, August 31 – Tuesday, September 10, 2013
LOCATION:
Villicana D’Annibale Galleria D’Arte
via Cavour 85 - Arezzo … NEW LOCATION!
INAUGURATION:
Saturday, August 31, 2013, at 6pm
with the presence of the masters
presentation curated by art historian Liletta Fornasari
SPECIAL EVENT IN THE GALLERY:
CONCERT
Svitlana Buderatska, soprano
and Franco Meoli, piano: Ukrainian Songs
Saturday, September 7, 2013 at 6pm
CATALOGUE:
curated by the Villicana D’Annibale Galleria D’Arte
critical texts by Liletta Fornasari
visible on our website at http://www.villicanadannibale.com/books
INFO:
FREE ENTRANCE
Open Tuesday to Saturday from 4pm to 8pm, or by appointment
and the first Sunday of the month and previous Saturday from 11am to 8pm
Cell. +39 338 6005593
E-mail: danielle@villicanadannibale.com
Web: http://www.villicanadannibale.com
ORGANIZATION:
Artistic Director and Gallerist Danielle Villicana D’Annibale
Light Designer & Installation Maurizio D’Annibale
Graphic Project Riccardo Terziani & Marco Moneti
Copy Service D/Sign (AR)
PRESS AGENCY:
Villicana D’Annibale Galleria D’Arte
Journalist Marco Botti
+39 338 6005593 / +39 347 5489038 - danielle@villicanadannibale.com
SPONSOR:
Villa Margherita a Paradise for Artists in Tuscany
___________________________________
PRESS RELEASE
The real and fantastic visions of Silvestro Pistolesi and Rino Giannini
Two Tuscan masters exhibit in Arezzo from August 31 to September 10, 2013
Celebrating the beginning of a new season of exhibits, the Villicana D’Annibale Galleria d’Arte is moving to a new and larger location, not distant from the previous location, at via Cavour 85, adjacent to Piazza Badia (Badia Square).
The new gallery will be inaugurated August 31, 2013 at 6pm, with the exhibit of two noted Tuscan masters – painter Silvestro Pistolesi and the sculptor Rino Giannini – entitled The real and fantastic visions. The exposition, curated by Liletta Fornasari, will continue free of entrance until Tuesday, September 10, 2013.
Present will be approximately twenty recent works of art of the Florentine master, including landscapes, seascapes and portraits, eight sculptures in marble, terracotta and various materials, portraits and boats of the sculptor from Versilia.
Events in the gallery of the “double solo exhibition” include, Saturday September 7 at 6pm, the concerto of the “Ukrainian Songs” with the soprano Svitlana Buderatska, accompanied by piano by Franco Meoli.
It is a great honor for the gallery to present two masters, active for more than fifty years and appreciated in all the world. Silvestro Pistolesi, master and follower of the school of Pietro Annigoni, and Rino Giannini, sculptor and professor on retirement from the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara.
The two artists share excellence, fantasy and passion, characteristics that the Villicana D’Annibale Galleria D’Arte dedicate to the young artists of today, ready to begin the new scholastic year, with the hope to inspire them in the research and the study of the great Tuscan figurative tradition.
Silvestro Pistolesi is an indisputable leader in the almost forgotten techniques of the Florentine school. His figurative modern-renaissance style translates fantastic movement in his paintings created in the studio with tempera grassa, as well as his oil studies painted from life flooded with light, and then to achieve the maximum expression in the realization of large walls painted with the fresco technique.
His recent production is of works of small format, splendid views of maritime cities where the painter finds refuge from the hot summers of Florence, and where he contemplates the profoundness of nature and the horizon.
Other works selected for Arezzo are fruit of his fantasy, fantastic places of a world that doesn’t accept nor promote modernity, as the large painting created with the technique typical of the bottega of Annigoni, of tempera grassa on board, in which a hermit watches a hot air balloon which flies high in the sky.
Liletta Fornasari, art historian and curator of the exhibit, describes the work of the master in the critical text presented in the catalogue for the exhibit, “Visions of a romantic flavor are the essential elements of the figurative syntax of Pistolesi, an artist gifted of a profound sensibility, transferred by himself in an extraordinary ability to express, and not only interpret the light, making of this last a sacred element, indispensable and expanded, as if all could overstep the true limits of vision, although harmonizing the luminous effect to the story that each little painting in the exhibit would like to halt in perceptive moments, according to a rapid sequence and a reading without breaking, but rich in allusive and symbolic meanings.”
Next to the art of Pistolesi will be a selection of exquisite sculptures created by Rino Giannini, a great experimenter of marbles and painted terracotta which he successfully translates with innate sensibility the light of Versilia in his works. Liletta Fornasari, curator of the exhibit, describes his work, “Sufficient are the eight sculptures, between marbles and terrecotte, on display in the exhibit, to understand the explorative practice completed by Rino Giannini, artist continually occupied with the research of forms and new concepts, as well as capable of conducting his activity for approximately twenty years as professor of Technique of marble at the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, creating a perfect junction between his will to experiment experiencing cultures and moments of thought extremely different and the necessity to teach the art of sculpture respecting the authentic rules…”
Amongst the works of art present in Arezzo are included ships, portraits, female figures such as that of the polychrome marble entitled Venice, or the painted terrecotte sculptures such as Hatanor, where man and woman achieve unity.
The capacity of Giannini in the sculptural arts has no limits. Having taught for many years in one of the most prestigious academies in the world, he was able to pass on his mastery to generations of students.
An interesting fact: in 1984 the artist was one of the experts called in to resolve the scandal of the three heads found dredging the Fosso Reale (Royal Moat) of Livorno, attributed to Modigliani, but then found to be fruit of a joke played by some university students. Giannini still contests the declarations of the students from Livorno, with concepts and demonstrations, the incredibility of their affirmations; with the comfort of other experts, he continues to affirm that "Modì 2" remained immersed in the water for various “lustri” (five-year periods).
Pistolesi and Giannini: two artists, two artisans but above all two great masters sure to illuminate the long Aretine summer.
Biography Silvestro Pistolesi:
Silvestro Pistolesi was born in Florence in 1943 and from a very early age demonstrated his artistic inclination, attending first the Graphic Art section of the Institute of Fine Arts at Porta Romana, and later the School of Publicity of the “Leonetto Capiello” Institute. His apprenticeship began with the frequenting of the studio of the painter Nerina Simi. At the same time, he enrolled in the course the Nude at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. Afterward he met who would be his great master: Pietro Annigoni. He began frequenting his studio, from 1963, and there his true artistic formation took place. His first solo exhibit was in 1972 at the Arts Unlimited Gallery of London, a complete success, and he was proclaimed a talent of international fame. Since then he has exhibited in numerous Italian cities and abroad. The artist has painted portraits of famous people, like that of Pope Giovanni Paolo II, and works of great relevance in locations such as the Abbey of Montecassino, the sanctuary of La Verna, the Abbey of Vallombrosa, the hospital “Don Gnocchi” of Scandicci and the church of the Transfiguration of Cape Cod in the United States. Noteworthy of his recent activity in 2012, to mention are his solo exhibition at the “Casa Rossa” in 2012 and the realization of the portrait of Giuseppe Betori, archbishop of Florence. In the spring of 2013 an exhibit of his work was held Villa Rufolo in Ravello (Sa).
Words written about the artist:
“…Pistolesi is a worker with a long training behind him, the kind of training that once begun has no end for the true artist; and he has already acquired skills that are at times exceptional, as may be seen in various works of his… Certainly it is difficult in this day and age to find among painters of his generation someone who is not only opposed to the currents of fashion or better still feels outside it all, but one like him who has also isolated himself in an apparently anachronistic “world of his own”, so full of accents and meanings that together assume symbolical value: the symbol of a coherent regret that one can feel only today… ”.
(Pietro Annigoni, painter)
Biography Rino Giannini:
Rino Giannini was born in Pietrasanta (Lu) in 1939 and grew up in the surroundings of the working of marble. After various experiences, he decided to dedicate his time to sculpture and received a diploma from the Art Institute of Pietrasanta. As a professional sculptor, he obtained many important commissions amongst which is notable the portrait of Father Ciampicon for the Church Chiesa Dei Servi di Maria di Massa, four sculptures of Oranti for a chapel of a cemetery of Staglieno (Ge), the official portrait of Federico Milkovich, founder of the U.I.L.M.D., the portrait of Henry Laurens for the Historical Society of Charlestown and the Madonna with Child for the House of the young child of Seycelles, the monument for the commercial area of Seano (Prato) and the commemorative sculpture of Mr. Moulin and Charles De Gaulle for Cannes in the French Riviera.
In 1975 he was invited to teach and became professor of the course entitled "Techniques of marble" in the School of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, where he taught for twenty years. Today the artist continues to sculpt in his studio entitled the Superior School of Sculpture of Pietrasanta.
Giannini is also an organizer and curator of artistic events, and he was invited to sculpt in symposiums and other manifestations of figurative nature in the entire world (France, Spain, Greece, Switzerland, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the United States).
Words written about the artist:
“…The artisan and the sculptor live as one and merge. That is not to say to only to maneuver instruments, but to see with attentive and expert eyes which go beyond the surface. In this sense, even for marbles of modest dimensions, often times chips, small irregular blocks which were given to students we find the difference between the artist and the machine in which the artisan is endowed…”.
(Daniela Grassellini, professor of contemporary art history)
___________________________________
VILLA MARGHERITA A PARADISE FOR ARTISTS IN TUSCANY
ART GALLERY • INTERNATIONAL ART CLUB • ART WORKSHOPS + ENGLISH
The Villicana D’Annibale Art Gallery believes in the importance of promoting contemporary art.
Be a part of contemporary art…it’s simple and fun!
The sponsor of the initiative is Villa Margherita a Paradise for Artists in Tuscany, a project created by Danielle Villicana D’Annibale, artist and gallerist. The Californian has a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and the Visual Arts from the United States, a diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome (Accademia di Belle Arti Roma) and obtains a TEFL diploma for Teaching English as a Second Language. At Villa Margherita, Danielle offers courses in drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, sculpture and English.
All are welcome to visit and discover our creative world, full of flowers and Tuscan colors, immersed in the nature of Alpe di Poti. Join the Villa Margherita International Art Club, membership is free! More information is available on our website http://www.villicanadannibale.com or by calling Danielle directly at +39 338 6005593.
______________________________
______________________________
CATALOGHI DELLA GALLERIA: http://www.VillicanaDAnnibale.com/books
______________________________
ISCRIVITI ALLA NOSTRA MAILING LIST: http://www.VillicanaDAnnibale.com/contact
FAI PARTE DELL'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA AD AREZZO!
______________________________
GALLERY CATALOGUES: http://www.VillicanaDAnnibale.com/books
______________________________
SIGN UP FOR OUR MAILING LIST: http://www.VillicanaDAnnibale.com/contact
_____________________________
BE A PART OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN AREZZO!
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