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IL MITO DEL POP PERCORSI ITALIANI – curated by Silvia Pegoraro – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Armando Pizzinato, Pordenone, 2017 May 13th – October 8th

May 10, 2017

There was an Italian way to Pop and it was absolutely original. Silvia Pegoraro highlights this exhibition with the strong criticism that brings together at the Galleria d’Arte moderna e Contemporanea Armando Pizzicato di Pordenone, about 70 works, most precious and some never before exhibited. An exhibition project aimed at highlighting the peculiarity and originality of the Italian way to Pop Art.

“It is time,” says the Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Pordenone, Pietro Tropeano, to begin the deepening and reinterpretation of an Italian art movement of great importance, such as that of Pop Art, which in Italy had many protagonists in a most lively period of contemporary art in our country. ”

1964 is the year of the triumph of American Pop Art at the Venice Biennale, but at the same time there are between Rome and Milan, artists who have expressed the best of Italian pop art.

“The italian and european way, before the references to the artistic tradition, is manifested in the strong instance of craftsmanship / manual capability – the Curator says – far from the purely industrial techniques used by american Pop Art. An originality that is confirmed by the works on show. Highlighting, it is above all the inclination of Italians to work on cultural stereotypes, rather than merely on commodity objects and images of mass communication, with a more explicit manipulation of images. ”

On show: Valerio Adami, Franco Angeli, Enrico Baj, Gianfranco Baruchello, Gianni Bertini, Umberto Bignardi, Marisa Busanel, Mario Ceroli, Claudio Cintoli, Lucio Del Pezzo, Bruno Di Bello, Luigi Di Sarro, Tano Festa, Giosetta Fioroni, Piero Gilardi, Ettore Innocente, Sergio Lombardo, Renato Mambor, Gino Marotta, Titina Maselli, Aldo Mondino, Pino Pascali,  Concetto Pozzati, Mimmo Rotella, Mario Schifano, Cesare Tacchi, Emilio Tadini, Giulio Turcato.

The exhibition is promoted and organized by the Cultural Council of the Municipality of Pordenone, in collaboration with Ente Regionale per il Patrimonio Culturale della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, with the sponsor of Fondazione Friuli, and the contribution of Crédit Agricole Friuladria e Itas Mutua.

Opening: saturday 13 may 2017 at 6pm
Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Armando Pizzinato, Pordenone
Viale Dante, 33

the exhibition will run: 13 may – 8 october 2017 (wed-sun h. 3pm-7pm)

Catalogue italian/english curated by Silvia Pegoraro

MARGINALIA. The Figurative Thought of Magdalo Mussio – curated by Paola Ballesi

April 19, 2017

The Centre of Studies Luigi Di Sarro present the book “Marginalia. The figurative thought of Magdalo Mussio”, published by Quodlibet, curated by Paola Ballesi, which reconstructs the complex story of Magdalo Mussio thanks to the contribution of many scholars and experts, and the testimonies of those who have crossed his creative activity and the search path during his life.

Accompanying the book launch will be a selection of works by the artist that will remain on display on May 9 to 31.

The Municipality of Recanati, in collaboration with the Centre for Documentation of Contemporary Artistic Research Luigi Di Sarro in Rome and the Space Culture Association in Recanati, paid tribute to Magdalo Mussio – ten years after his death – with the retrospective Magdalo Mussio. Marginalia, curated by Paola Ballesi, held in Villa Colloredo Mels last October-November.

Magdalo Mussio (Volterra 1925 – Civitanova Marche 2006) studied scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and animated drawing in Canada, with Norman McLaren. From the encounter between “motion graphics” and visual arts comes  out the interest in the relationship between writing and figuration, which marks his entire artistic career. After his debut in 1955 with an exhibition by Giuseppe Ungaretti, in the early sixties he became chief editor of “Marcatré” magazine linked to the ’63 Group. Protagonist of the avant-garde ‘verbovisiva’, invests his creativity in graphic works and paintings, artist’s books, animated films and scenes. In the early Seventies he moved in the Marches region, where he joined the editorial manager activities of the New Sheet teaching of Engraving Techniques at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata. His long career is full of numerous awards and important exhibitions from New York to Tokyo, Montreal, Sydney, Paris, Milan, Rome, Genoa and many other cities. “The visual poems” of Magdalo Mussio – like calling them Gillo Dorfles – are exposed to Finch Museum in New York ( “Italian Visual Poetry”), the Center Pompidou in Paris ( “Identité Italienne: Art en Italie depuis 1959”) and other prestigious Italian galleries.

 

ARP-ART RESIDENCY PROJECT SHOWS AT CAPE TOWN ART FAIR

February 16, 2017

We are delighted to announce the arrival in Cape Town of Italian artist Valentina Colella, who was selected for a residency in the framework of ARP-Art Residency Project V Edition. The project, ideated by Centro Luigi Di Sarro of Rome in collaboration this year with Everard Read Gallery Cape Town, began in 2009 and involved various important galleries as well as 13 artists. This fifth edition enjoys the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation; in the period 2015-2017 the project’s activities increased, witnessing many young art enthusiasts as well as art students actively contributing to the residencies in Rome and Cape Town of the two winners of the selection, Valentina Colella for Italy and Zwelethu Machepha for South Africa. Young curators, art historians, photographers, videomakers and students of various disciplines collaborated with the two leaders of this exchange, the artists, through training contributions and the participation to meetings and workshops. It is because of this activity, considered of high cultural, educational and social value, that ARP project was invited this year to take part to Cape Town Art Fair in the Cultural Platforms section, next to the most important South African non-profit organisations.

We invite you to visit stand F13, where the artworks of all Italian and South African artists who took part until today to ARP project will be exhibited, and where it will be possible to find out more about all the events organized by ARP between now and the end of March.
Saturday 18th February from 11 until 3, artists Colella e Machepha will be at ARP’s stand to introduce themselves to CTAF visitors. At 2 pm, the Italian Consul in Cape Town, Antonio Tagliaferri, and the Director of the Italian Insitute of Culture of Pretoria, Anna Amendolagine, will be in conversation with the Project Director, Alessandra Atti Di Sarro, of Centro Luigi Di Sarro, about ARP project and its history. All artists and gallerists who took part to ARP exchanges in the last eight years have been invited to join and share their experiences.

Paolo Bini – Premio Cairo 2016

November 10, 2016

Congratulation to Paolo Bini! He won the XVII Edizione Premio Cairo 2016 in Milan, one of the most relevant prize focused on the emerging talents. Paolo Bini was selected for our ARP-Art Residency Project 2013 to go for a monthly art residency in Cape Town and this experience definitely opened his southafrican adventure. Now the Centro Di Sarro are very proud about this award. The ARP is an exchange programme focused to the young talents. In RSA ARP is active from 2009. The new edition will be in march 2017 in Cape Town.

MAGDALO MUSSIO. MARGINALIA

October 18, 2016

curated by Paola Ballesi

Villa Colloredo Mels
Recanati (MC)
22 October –30 November 2016

Ten years after the death of Magdalo Mussio, Recanati Town Council in cooperation with the Luigi Di Sarro Centre for Documentation of Contemporary Artistic Research in Rome and Spazio Cultura Association in Recanati pay tribute to the artist with the Magdalo Mussio Retrospective, Marginalia, to be opened on 22 October 2016 in Recanati in the Villa Colloredo Mels Town Museum.
Paintings, artist’s books, rare editions, posters, and animated films recount the extraordinary adventure of the Tuscan artist who moved to the Marches.
Among the most incisive and authoritative artists of the neoavanguardia, Magdalo Mussio made an indelible mark on the cultural landscape of our country with his literary and publishing exploits. These were performed in parallel with his artistic practice and with his longstanding teaching commitments at the Fine Arts Academy in Macerata, the memory of which is easily accessible through some of his pupils, who today are emerging artists.
Rooted in the European cultures of the sixties, Magdalo Mussio was one of the main exponents of verbo-visual art that embraced poetry, painting, music, typographic art and cinema in a boundless exploration which often ventured into unknown territory and never failed to follow through right to the end.
His long career was richly recognised and important exhibitions were held in New York, Tokyo, Montreal, Sydney, Paris, Milan, Rome, Genoa and many other cities. Magdalo Mussio’s “I poemi visivi”, as Gillo Dorfles called them, are exhibited at the Finch Museum in New York (“Italian Visual Poetry”), at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (“Identitè Italienne: l’Art en Italie depuis 1959”) and in other prestigious Italian galleries.
The artist’s complexity and his multidisciplinary talent are documented in the exhibition, including the vast amount of work on paper and board, screening of the animated films Il potere del drago (1971), Il reale dissoluto (1972), Umanomeno (1973) and the video interview Detto tra noi (1986), and lastly a section dedicated to his publishing activity.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue-book published by Quodlibet that reconstructs the complex story of Magdalo Mussio as a total artist, with contributions from many scholars and experts, as well as testimonies from those who came into contact with the creative activities and development path of his life.

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CENTRO DI SARRO NEWS – In ricordo di Alba Di Sarro

May 5, 2016

Il Centro Di Sarro ha voluto onorare la memoria di Alba Mazzei Di Sarro (che ci ha lasciati il 14 settembre 2015 all’età di 103 anni) con l’istituzione di una borsa di studio a suo nome assegnata per questa prima edizione al dott. Emanuele Rinaldo Meschini – storico dell’arte, laureato a La Sapienza di Roma e specializzato all’Università di Siena – accogliendo il suo progetto di studio e di ricerca sui materiali prodotti nel corso della ultratrentennale attività del Centro.
A breve la call per la prossima edizione.