«The exhibition is progressing well, there is a good flow of visitors and the inauguration was well attended, with many foreigners entering the gallery and showing themselves really interested in the exhibition». Those are words of satisfaction that come from the painter Enrico Suzzani, one of the six artists protagonists of the art collective Traces of lagoon and land which from December 20th (and until January 3rd) can be visited at the “Lo Verso Art Studio” art gallery located on the Giudecca, one of the most famous islands of Venice.
In the words of its curators, the exhibition is “a pictorial journey that reconnects Venice to its mainland, a tradition that is renewed in the contemporary gaze of its interpreters”.
Among these there is Suzzani, an artist born in Codogno, who lives and works in Camairago, much loved in the Lodi area, and beyond; a masterly painting, his, which portrays reality as it appears, while revealing its soul and magic at the same time, in a perfect combination of technique and ability to excite. To the Venetian exhibition, Suzzani brought six paintings, four depicting glimpses of Venice, a theme that has always been dear to the artist. The other two paintings instead portray the Piacenza landscape of the Val d’Aveto, which for years has been the summer “retreat” of the Codognese area. «I spent a large part of my life in Venice, painting its landscapes “en plein air” – Suzzani recalls -. It is therefore a particular emotion to exhibit my works in this wonderful place.”
The exhibition can be visited from Monday to Thursday from 10am to 2pm, on Friday and Saturday from 10am to 6pm. It is also possible to book a specific visit appointment. All of this, for an exhibition that is «a tribute to landscape painting, not as nostalgia but as silent resistance, against the tide of ephemeral fashions – the curators write again -, where the landscape is not the background, but the protagonist: identity, roots, necessity».
