Udine is preparing to celebrate the 93-year-old master Giorgio Celiberti with an exhibition that will see some of his most representative works displayed in the streets and squares of the center which from 16 May to 30 June will become a sort of open-air art gallery.
The initiative entitled “Giorgio Celiberti – Memories from the past”, is organized by Studio Celiberti, together with the leading association “Il Mulino a Nord Est” and under the curatorship of the artist Carlo Stragapede.
The municipal council has granted the Salone del Popolo to Palazzo D’Aronco free of charge for the inaugural event scheduled for May 16th from 10.30 am as well as the spaces of the former “Gasparini – Tonini” shop in the gallery below Palazzo D’Aronco, for the exhibition of approximately 15 works.
Entrance to the exhibition will be free but, as mentioned, to admire the masterpieces of the Udine artist, all you need to do is walk in the heart of the city.
In via Mercatovecchio there will be 5 bronze horses 1.80 meters high and a horse with rider, in Piazza Marconi a bronze stele three meters high and weighing 300 kilograms will be placed.
Another horse with its rider will be placed in Via Lionello almost in front of the entrance to Palazzo D’Aronco while in Piazza XX Settembre there will be a marble memorial stone.
To promote the exhibition, four road banners will be placed along the main access roads to the city (piazzale Chiavris or viale Volontari della Libertà, viale Venezia, viale Palmanova and via Cividale) and the installation of three explanatory cubes is also planned, one in via Mercatovecchio, one in piazza Matteotti, in front of the church of San Giacomo and one in piazza Libertà in front of the clock tower.
In short, it will be impossible not to notice this tribute to Celiberti, an artist appreciated throughout the world who at the age of just nineteen participated in the Venice Biennale in 1948 and in 2003 won the Sulmona prize.
