A new appointment with contemporary art for Pesaro, Italian Capital of Culture 2024: it can be visited until 30 June 2024, in the spaces of the sixteenth-century Palazzo Tiranni-Castracane in Cagli, How do you put it?exhibition of Giovanni Terminiedited by Marcello Smarrelli, artistic director of Pesaro Musei. On display in the historic environments, even more evocative due to the ongoing and not yet completed restorations, a selection of works by the artist, one of which is unpublished and site specific. Inserted in the Pesaro 2024 calendar of events, the exhibition itinerary follows its thematic coordinates, focusing on the relationship between art, nature and technology. These represent as many cornerstones of the artist’s research who – as Termini himself states – feeds «precisely on the conflicts that he tries, in vain, to quell. I don’t see any other stimuli for research…”. The exhibition is promoted by the Municipality of Cagli and Pesaro Musei with the collaboration of Cariaggi, a historic spinning mill based in the Marche region, which also gave birth to the great master Eliseo Mattiacci.
«The signs that time has left in the splendid rooms of Palazzo Tiranni-Castracane which have been disused for years – explains Smarrelli – create a profound resonance with Giovanni Termini’s modus operandi. Often the worn plaster allows us to glimpse the stratification of the frescoes, the structures of the walls and vaults, revealing the technical artifices of the construction, almost as if the entire building, removed from the flow of time, by virtue of a conceptual gap, has become a ready-made made, assumed by the artist himself as an autograph work of art”. The catalog accompanies the exhibition Giovanni Termini, How do you put it ispublished by Arti Grafiche della Torre, with a text by Simone Ciglia.
Born in Assoro in 1972, Pesaro by adoption, Giovanni Termini «Approaches space by glimpsing the connection between the forms to be codified and signified», we read in the text that accompanies the exhibition. «By means of this “intellectualized projection” the artist translates energies into mass. Obviously it is an isomorphic translation, self-determined by the elements that regulate it: the work is indivisible despite its parts continuing to be separable. It is as if the artist was interested in their units of measurement even more than in their sets. As for the materials, they convey information while their degree of organization determines the system to which they belong.” Cagli recently exhibited one of his installations at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, in Rome, while on 8 May he will be involved again in the Pesaro 2024 programme, for a collective exhibition in Monteciccardo, Sculptures for the community.
