Next Saturday May 18th at h. 6.30 pm, at the Exhibition Halls of the Province of Cosenza, the opening event will be held Pictorial exhibition in memory of AlaricKing of the Visigoths conceived and organized by art critics Jean-François Bachis-Pugliese and Mery Rose Florio. An event that the President of the Province strongly wanted to promote and host.
“There is a strong bond, suspended between myth and history – he said Rosaria Succurro – between Alarico and the City of Cosenza which still today fascinates scholars and enthusiasts, intrigued and eager to understand and discover whether the magnificent treasure buried together with the king of the Visigoths really lies somewhere along the course of the Busento”. A legend perhaps, but whose only narration is probability for Succurro “can to represent a great tourist asset for Cosenza and the entire provincial territory”.
However, it is significant for President Succurro that “in the name of Alarico we celebrate an important exhibition, on a historical and cultural level, which sees us committed to exhibiting in our Center Historic works of sixty famous Italian artists”. I am in fact, sixty Italian artists exhibit in the exhibition catalogued, whose title is precisely “Praemium Artis Hoggie in Memoriam Alarici Regis”.
Each artist will present one of his works, guardian and absolute witness of the energies of each artist and those of the King of the Visigoths Alaric. The works that pay homage to the King will be divided into: Informal works, figurative works and landscape works.
Prof. will participate in the opening ceremony. Vincenzo Napolillo, historian and essayist and scholar of Alaric; the professor. Giuseppe Giglio, Art Historian and Critic; the professor. Jean-François Bachis-Pugliese, Archivist, Semiologist and Art Critic; Dr Mery Rose Florio, Linguist and Art Critic; Dr Adele PaolaCollector and Gallery Owner.
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