“Summa. Moods” is the title of the retrospective exhibition dedicated to the artist from Livorno Ivo Lombardischeduled at the Fattori Museum – Granai Villa Mimbelli in Livorno from July 6th to August 18th 2024.
The exhibition – organized by the Municipality of Livorno with the contribution of the Trossi Uberti Art Foundation (Livorno), the Cassa di Risparmio di Volterra Foundation and presented by the critical text by Giancarlo Bertoncini – is the story of Lombardi’s artistic journey from his debut in 1963 to the present day.
In the rooms on the first floor of the Granai, in fact, about a hundred works including installations, paintings, artist’s books, drawings, engravings, graphic works and sculptures will retrace the research of Lombardi, who has always been committed with his art to investigating themes such as the environment, memory, conflicts, poetry.
The visitor will thus be able to discover the first works from the 60s dedicated to the changing cities, those from the 70s in which the theme of industrialization is strong, the works in which matter and forms are the protagonists such as Outcrops e Lands of Leather of the decade 1986-1996. To then arrive at crucial works such as Observing the planet (1998) o To future memory (1999), passing through the cycle of Artist’s books and the one on the Metamorphosis of languageboth of which began in the 2000s.
Among others, also present were the War games of 1999 (recently revised) and the works dedicated to Emigrationsbegun in 2006. Finally, there will be more recent works created during the Covid-19 pandemic, in which a Suspended timewith numerous large-format works and Artist’s books on the same topic.
The exhibition path will then be dotted with site specific installations such as The Fall of the Rebel Angel, The bright books (2019) and, finally, a large installation on the world of bees and the role they play on our planet; a scenographic work in which the environmentalist commitment that has always distinguished Lombardi’s poetics strongly emerges.
The exhibition, ad free entrywill be visitable until August 18, 2024 during museum opening hours: Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 1pm and from 4pm to 7pm.
The exhibition will include a catalogue with a large gallery of images and a detailed critical anthology.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Ivo Lombardi was born in 1936 in Livorno, the city where he lives and works. Since the 1990s he has actively participated in exhibitions in Italy and Europe. At the beginning of the 2000s he created a large number of artist’s books in collaboration with friends, writers and poets including Luciano Della Mea, Simonetta Melani, Roberto Veracini, Dino Carlesi, Mario Luzi, Silvano Granchi, Luciano Fusi, Giuliano Scabia, Valerio Vallini. Creator and curator of many artistic events together with poets and cultural animators, he has also created murals in Santa Croce sull’Arno, Livorno, Pontedera, Navacchio, Treuchtlingen (Germany), La Gaude e Mende (France), Amadora (Portugal)…
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