Renaissance it is much more than a collective of artists: it is an exhaustive immersion in art, an attitude of connected artistic research, an experience that involves and overturns established awareness. In the splendid setting of Vannucci gallery Of Pistoia – among the most intriguing in the Tuscan panorama – the curator Marina Dacci reflects on the archaic concept of “nascimento” understood as something deeply rooted in the spirit of our time.
Cases in which a container places itself in such an intimate relationship with the contents it houses are not so frequent. The arrangement of this exhibition in the Vannucci context works perfectly and the works seem to be an integral part of it: they live independently but exist together in the moment in which they present the gallery. Splendid Tuscany thus continues to excel, from the cradle of the Renaissance to the genesis of an increasingly lively contemporary world.
Nine leading Italian artists will exhibit: Antonio Fiorentino, Elena Bellantoni, Bertozzi&Casoni, Chiara Bettazzi, Bianco-Valente, Serena Fineschi, Cristina Gozzini. Silvia Listorti And Nazzarena Poli-Maramotti. A beautiful and complex space, circumscribed by a rarefied lightness of different mediums – including video, photography, sculpture, drawing and painting – which introduces multiple interpretations, in a language that never appears fragmented, on the contrary. A path that seems to present itself as a sort of initiation rite, with hands that move in relationship with objects and art which becomes an emblematic narrative intersection. A symbiotic connection between each work exhibited, not only visual but also conceptual in projections between verticality and horizontality. Each presence in the exhibition manages to redefine energies: between body and space and body and nature, through continuous mutual influence.
AD NATURE it is instead a continuation and expansion of the works presented in the gallery Vannucci of Pistoia. In the suggestive Villa Rospigliosi Of Lawnthe sculptures and canvases of Antonio Fiorentino they engage in a close and profound dialogue with the surrounding nature. His art is an incessant narration that tells of the changing forms, their reversal of meaning that generates infinite dimensions. Entities that transform into mythological figures, internal entropies from which possibilities arise, a dreamlike sculptural research that is somehow linked to the past. A well-defined path that initially seems to get lost among the trees – with three anthropomorphic and divinatory sculptures of the same size – and then gradually emerges, with powerful delicacy towards the spaces of the exhibition.
The elements of nature are well blended with the human factor, in a search that is always towards nature. It is difficult to explain the sensation you feel when you enter the bright environments in which the works are displayed: pervaded by mysticism and echoes of mystery, a first sculpture carries wax on its head and illuminates the room, in a tangible homage to the clear shadows of its cyanotypes. These are actually abstract self-portraits of the same Florentine in an increasingly evident theme of the double and also manifested in the five masks which – like true identity archetypes – fill the wall of the second room in a visual union of powerful and symbolic art.
Renaissance
From 12 May to 28 July 2024
ME Vannucci Gallery, via Gorizia 122
info: vannucci.it
AD NATURE
From 12 May to 23 June 2024
Villa Rospigliosi, Prato
