It opens on Friday 28 June at 7pm at Candelara Castle, the sixth episode of the project Pesaro 2024 – Italian capital of culture’From sculptures in the city to community art‘ curated by Marcello Smarrelli, which involves i 12 Neighborhoods and the Municipality of Monteciccardodeveloping the thematic fulcrum relationship between the arts and public space. The protagonist is the District 3 – Hills and Castles – composed of the villages of Candelara, Ginestreto, Novilara, Santa Maria dell’Arzilla, Trebbiantico – which is proud to present ‘Beautiful landscape‘, the intervention of Davide Mancini Zanchi (Urbino, 1986), ed Giacomo Pigliapoco.
In an increasingly frenetic and urbanized world, Mancini Zanchi underlines the importance of stopping to contemplate nature and the territory, inviting the public to slow down and immerse themselves in the picturesque villages, the rolling hills and the fascinating views of the Pesaro landscape. Presenting itself with an aura of simplicity and positivity, ‘Paesaggio Bello’ hides, behind an apparent playful atmosphere, a layered emotional complexity. The five villages that make up District 3 are reconsidered by the artist and brought together in a single declaration of love for the beauty they embody.
‘Beautiful Landscape’ is composed of five pictorial interventions and a traveling illuminated sign. The site-specific works – paintings created starting from characteristic aspects of the territory – are placed in harmonious dialogue with the surrounding environment, enhancing its peculiarities and promoting a new awareness of the landscape heritage. Each work is an integral part of the exhibition context, transforming from time to time a panoramic point, a small town square, a portion of the city wall or a public park or even a wash house, into places of discovery and reflection. The luminous writing stands out on an Apecar traveling between the villages, illuminating hidden corners, breathtaking scenery and rural landscapes.
At every stop, ‘Beautiful Landscape’ converts views, hills and fields into open-air stageswhere the light of the illuminated sign enters into dialogue with the surrounding places, creating an evocative emotional whirlwind that reconnects people with the nature that surrounds them.
Davide Mancini Zanchi, son of his parents, was born in Urbino on 26 June 1986.
In the early 2000s he attended art school, but since 2004 he has concentrated on painting. She then attended the Academy of Fine Arts and in 2014 was a guest of the DENA Foundation for a residency project in Paris. In the same year she began to exhibit her work in personal and collective exhibitions. Shortly afterwards she began to collaborate with PierPaolo Calzolari with whom the relationship is still open and constant. In the meantime he took part in exhibitions such as “toys are us” at the A+B Gallery in Brescia, “da che mani vidi Zan Cin” at the Otto Gallery in Bologna, “Mira il mare mà lè” at the Pescheria Visual Arts Center in Pesaro, “No diamond in the sky” at the Pastificio Cerere Foundation in Rome and “Coba Coba” at Megadue in Bologna. Furthermore, in 2020 he was awarded the Italian Council for a cultural exchange project in Urugay which saw him in residence in Montevideo. In 2022, “MONOCHROMO” was released, a monographic book published by Cura.books, which reports his artistic journey. Today he lives and works in Acqualagna, a small village between the Adriatic Sea and the Apennine mountains, he continues his artistic research and is a teacher of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Reggio Calabria.
Giacomo Pigliapoco (Senigallia, 1991)
He lives and works in Milan and is currently Director of the DucatoPrize. Among the recent exhibitions curated: Sowing the seed of care, Galleria FuoriCampo – Siena; We took it for granted, Palazzo Ducale – Genoa; BodiesBodies, La rada, CH-Locarno; Milan floor zero, Triennale – Milan; Dusk, Bastione Sangallo – Loreto (An); Preferring the shade, Sant’Elia Foundation – Palermo. He has collaborated in the implementation of projects and activities at Italian and international institutions such as: GAMeC – Bergamo; Kunsthalle Lissabon – Lisbon; Collection Yvon Lambert – Avignon; Artissima fair – Turin.
BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE
Davide Mancini Zanchi
edited by Giacomo Pigliapoco
District 3 – Hills and Castles
Inauguration June 28th at 7pm
Captain’s Hall / Candelara Castle, Strada San Giovanni, 4 (PU)
From sculptures in the city to community art
‘Beautiful landscape’ constitutes the sixth of the thirteen episodes which make up the Pesaro 2024 project ‘From sculptures in the city to the art of communities’ curated by Marcello Smarrelli, which was born from the historical memory of Arnaldo Pomodoro’s exhibition ‘Sculptures in the city’ (1971), a milestone in the debate on art in public space and a fundamental stage for the contemporary identity of Pesaro. Among the most iconic of the dossier, the project relocates the city at the center of cultural strategiesi relating to urban regeneration involving over 40 subjects including artists, authors and curators, questioning what Pesaro is and what it wants to become. The project saw the activation of 12 artistic residencies in the neighborhoods and municipality of Monteciccardo, with 12 artists and authors of different backgrounds and generations appointed ‘Ambassadors of art’, supported by the same number curatorsand the realization of exhibition at the Pescheria Visual Arts Center, ‘Sculptures in the city 1971/2024. From the public art of Arnaldo Pomodoro to the urban space of ten young authors’ (4 February – 5 May 2024). The residencies were an opportunity to establish an active dialogue with citizens and the territory, with the aim of promoting artistic co-creation paths aimed at the production of 12 permanent and site-specific works of art, whose location is strictly shared with citizens. The result of over a year of work, the works created represent the testimony of a path that allows to tell for the first time – through the language of art – the micro and macro stories that characterize the Neighborhoods giving visibility also to what is outside the ‘centre’. The implementing body is the Pescheria Visual Arts Center Foundation. Special partners: Bank of Pesaro – Cooperative Credit.
Artists nominated art ambassadors:
Friedrich Andreoni, Benni Bosetto, Gianni D’Elia, Matteo Fato, Oliviero Fiorenzi, Cyprien Gaillard, Paolo Icaro, Nevio Mengacci, Arianna Pace, Lamberto Pignotti, Michele Alberto Sereni, Giovanni Termini, Ricardo Aleodor Venturi, Davide Mancini Zanchi
Pesaro 2024 – Italian capital of culture is possible thanks to:
Institutional partners: Municipality of Pesaro, UNESCO, Ministry of Culture, Marche Region.
With the support of: Marche Chamber of Commerce, Cassa di Risparmio di Pesaro Foundation, CTE Square – House of Emerging Technologies.
Main partners: Scavolini, Intesa Sanpaolo, Hera Group.
Gold partners: TeamSystem, Enel, Amplia, Freetox.
Partners: Lindbergh Hotels & Resorts, Fox Petroli, Renco, Alpitour World, Fileni, Si con te, Lancia Impresa Edile.
Supporters: Benelli Moto, Ratti, Coop Alleanza 3.0, Felici Costruzioni e Restauri, Dago Elettronica.
Food partner: Food Brand Marche.
’50×50 Capital squared’ Special Partner”: Banca di Pesaro – Cooperative Credit.
Technical partners: Maggioli Cultura e Turismo, Fondazione Wanda di Ferdinando, APA Hotels, ASPES spa.
With the contribution of: Confartigianato Imprese Ancona – Pesaro and Urbino, Confcommercio Pesaro and Urbino/Marche Nord, Confindustria Pesaro Urbino, CNA, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Fano.
Official airport: Ancona International Airport.
Media partners: Ansa, QN – Quotidiano Nazionale – Il Resto del Carlino, RAI, Interni.
Official Radio: Rai Radio2.
Thanks to: Sound D-Light.
