The exhibition “Art without borders” will be inaugurated on Friday 10 May, at 6 pm, at the cultural space Antonio Pezzella – art expert (or as the owner and curator of the exhibition himself had ironically renamed it, in a radio interview, «gallery as a gym, where you can practice gymnastics for the mind»). The exhibition will see the presentation of important works by Sandro Barbieri and Nives Salvador, renowned painters who have long been present on the art stage. «Sandro Barbieri and Nives Salvador share the same watchword: always experiment – states the art critic Nicolas Molina -. Artists
which, unlike what current marketing imposes, – continues Molina – are always changing, with new ideas, linked to current themes and new techniques”. After the inauguration on May 10th, at 6 pm, in via Trieste in Fontane di Villorba, “Art without borders” will be open to visitors until May 31st.
The artists
Nives Salvador, from Spresia but with an international academic career, offers us paintings with combustion of plastics, collages and other materials, using almost sculptural techniques, of current themes, such as ecology, climate change and the changes in our planet. A contemporary key but with a look at the great masters of the recent past such as Alberto Burri.
Sandro Barbieri is an eclectic artist, painter, master glassmaker, ceramist, inventor of objects and lamps that seem to come out of science fiction films. He offers us a series of works that appear like windows, where the spectator looks out to peer into a changing world and landscape. Sandro Barbieri also uses innovative techniques, such as recycled paper and various pigments, but always drawing on stimuli that come from the past, such as the Venetian Giuseppe Santomaso or in some cases even Tiepolo-style paintings.
The exposition
The curator, Antonio Pezzella, explains: «Here we not only break down the frontiers of technology, inventing and experimenting through new ideas, but we do not even set geographical limits, proposing important climatic themes such as the thaw in the arctic areas or the fires that devastated the ‘Australia. There will also be, as in a sort of “matryoshka”, an exhibition within the exhibition, with works from various eras from other continents, first of all, a series of pre-Columbian figurines from 3 thousand years ago”
