In the first three days of its installation in the Norman-Swabian castle of Mesagne, approximately 500 visitors to the ‘G7. Seven centuries of Italian art’ inaugurated on 13 June on the same day as the opening of the world summit which was held in Borgo Egnazia on the Fasano coast. A journey through the history of Italian art between medieval art and contemporary artistic expressions that emerged in the Bel Paese from the 14th to the 20th century. Organized by Professor Pierluigi Carofano and promoted – within the framework of the Puglia Walking Art Memorandum of Understanding – by Micexperience Rete d’Impresa , with promoting bodies the Municipality of Mesagne and the Puglia Region, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, the exhibition will continue its cultural action until November 30th. The chosen works “describe the taste of each era and mark – the organizers illustrate – some key points of change: the discovery of spatiality in painting told through the eyes of Giotto’s and Simone Martini’s students; the invention of Leonardo’s sfumato; the classicism and naturalism of the seventeenth century interpreted by Carracci and Guido Reni; Canaletto’s landscape painting and the icy neoclassicism of Canova up to the contemporaneity of Burri’s Combustioni”. And in the comfortable armchairs set up in each room, people focus on the great masters and artists on display.
“During the presentation I said that the exhibition brought to Puglia, for the first time, works never seen here and that, upon its closure, precisely because it was created entirely from scratch, it will hardly be recomposed for another occasion. In these hours – said Pierangelo Argentieri, president of micexperience Rete d’Imprese and creator of Puglia Walking Art – we are noticing that people prefer to come up to the first floor of the Mesagne castle, before dedicating themselves to another tourist-cultural experience whatever it may be” .
