09 June 2024 09:37
The exhibition “1538°C – Notes from a sleepless artist” opened with wide public participation, promoted by the Academy of Fine Arts of Catanzaro to remember the artist and former director Toni Ferro. More than a hundred people, in fact, participated on Friday afternoon in the inaugural vernissage of the exhibition at the Marca Museum, demonstrating how the three-way relationship between the Academy of Fine Arts, the city of Catanzaro and contemporary art is capable of giving life at events appreciated by the public.
The exhibition is a journey in continuous dialogue between some of the most significant works of the Neapolitan artist who found his maximum expressive dimension in Catanzaro and 33 students from the Schools of Painting and Art Teaching of the Academy of Fine Arts. A journey the genesis of which required work lasting over a year, carried out by the young artists of the Academy in their studies following the idea launched by the director of the ABA, Virgilio Piccari, in the aftermath of the “Ferro Contemporaneo” exhibition that the Academy had produced in its spaces in October 2022 with the works of Toni Ferro. The teachers will curate the exhibition Caterina Arcuri, Amelia Lasaponara and Francesca Giordano.
«Toni Ferro was an artist who made a long and profound journey until the last moment of his life. It was an important journey, which we felt needed to be properly remembered and celebrated. And push it further. Our students felt this need, they made Toni Ferro’s work their own and they drew different but organic artistic declinations from it with the Maestro’s message: this is why this exhibition was born which places Ferro alongside the students he never met but who they still learned from him. The intervention of the Schools of Art Education and that of Painting was extraordinary: they came together, merging in a common intent, so much so that, in a year and a half of work, they managed to produce the works that are now exhibited in these extraordinary spaces. I am proud to represent an institution like the Academy of Fine Arts of Catanzaro whose teachers and students are capable of surprising the public. And I am equally certain that that journey that started with Toni Ferro can allow our students to find an artistic and professional position in the complex and fascinating world of contemporary art», said Piccari when introducing the exhibition.
The president of the Province of Catanzaro also spoke at the inauguration, Amedeo Mormilewho in his speech once again underlined the importance for Catanzaro and Calabria of the inter-institutional collaboration between his institution and the Academy: «The partnership, sought and found, with the Academy continues with this beautiful exhibition. A space of culture such as Marca could only be returned to the community and for that to happen it had to meet positive energies, skills and high level professionalism which are not lacking in our regional capital. It is a stimulating path and one that is capable of creating events like today’s. Catanzaro must and can grow in the context of culture and the promotion of contemporary art, perhaps starting from moments like today’s exhibition».
The students who created the works exhibited in dialogue with the works of Toni Ferro are: Giulia Tavernise, Pina Cerchiaro, Irene Schinella, Mascia Modica, Giuseppe Filice, Giada Pugliese, Elisa Petruzzi, Marica Corrado, Serena Le Rose, Maria Neve Vallone, Andrea Corsello, Gloria Marrazzo, Isabella Parisi, Rocco Stranieri, Antonia Mercurio, Rosy Piscionieri, Vincenzo Lavia, Anna Manfredi, Maria Manfredi, Nicoletta Petruzza, Federica Panzarella, Gloria Marrazzo, Nicoletta Macrì, Miriam Precone, Tommaso Alongi, Francesca Delle Donne, Antonio Aleo, Valeria Mannarino, Carolina Mancini, Nicoletta Garieri, Maria Teresa Scerbo, Natascia Mellace and Mogall.
The exhibition can be visited for free from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 1pm and by the hours 4.30pm to 7pm.
