REGGIO EMILIA – The inauguration of the. will be held on Thursday 16 May collective exhibition “A force that creates a look, a look that creates a force. The vision of the Artist in Italian painting of the twentieth century”. The exhibition, at the Bonis Galleryin viale dei Mille, collects around twenty works by great names of the Italian figurative twentieth century: Renato Birolli, Antonio Bueno, Carlo Carrà, Bruno Cassinari, Giovanni Frangi, Renato Guttuso, Antonio Ligabue, Alberto Manfredi, Zoran Music, Fausto Pirandello, Aligi Sassu, Mario Schifano, Tino Stefanoni and Orfeo Tamburi.
“Following the common thread that runs between heterogeneous works – explain the gallerists Stanislao de’ Bonis and Margherita Fontanesi – the exhibition tells us something profound about artists, about art and even about ourselves. Can we also find the gaze of the artist in the painted eyes of the portraits? And in self-portraits, how much of the painter’s soul is there? And in the Landscapes? Do we see reality through our eyes or through those of the author? This exhibition seeks to trace the inner world of some famous painters through their gaze.”
In the seeing of an artist, not only his eyes are involved, but also his sensitivity, his socio-cultural context, the historical era in which he lives and his personal journey. All elements that combine to create what is called “the inner gaze”: the engine that gives life to works of art.
The exhibition can be visited from Tuesday to Saturday 10.00-13.00 and 16.00-19.00, Thursday 10.00-13.00, closed 2 June. For information: T. +39 0522 580605, M. +39 338 3731881, [email protected], www.galleriadebonis.com.
