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Fra Giovanni da Verona...500 years after you - from May 10 to September 21
ASCIANO - Exhibition of contemporary wooden inlays curated by Federico Martinelli
From May 10 to September 21, Exhibition of contemporary wooden inlays at the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore. The exhibition intends to commemorate Fra Giovanni da Verona on the 500th anniversary of his death, an Olivetan monk among the best inlayers of the Renaissance.
Nineteen contemporary artists pay homage to him, confirming an innovative spirit, still able to set a precedent today, for the ability to combine technical skill and knowledge of perspective with attention to the message and the content. Thus, next to inlays dedicated to traditional subjects - and flanked by the works of the Renaissance master present inside the Church - there is space for modern views, distorted perspectives, energetic movement, iconographic languages that embrace, piece by piece, Futurism, Abstraction, Metaphysics.
A world of sacred, still lifes, animals, faces, glimpses of landscapes, Renaissance studies, imposing skyscrapers, busy streets, lightning bolts that tear the sky, traditional and modern musical instruments, vortices of color, dissolved and recomposed geometries. Different styles and genres to highlight modern tension, current contradiction and changing society: a contemporary reflection on the refined uniqueness of Fra Giovanni da Verona whose messages are still today the cornerstones of our spirituality.
Works by: Carlo Alfarano, Silvano Archetti, Alberto Bernardi, Arturo Biasato, Erica Biscarini, Marcello Buccolieri, Carletto Cantoni, Sereno Cordani, Bruno De Pellegrin, Nino Gambino, Lino Giussani, Francsco Lazzar, Giuseppe Mazo, Massimo Milli, Carlo Nicoletti, Duilio Negroni,
Daniele Parasecolo, Silas Kopf, Aldo Tomelleri and Luca Vicentini.