It opens on Thursday 27 June at 6pm, in three rooms of the Real Albergo delle Povere, in Palermothe exhibition “Just let love strike you” – title that quotes an intense lyric by the poet Salvatore Quasimodo – conceived and edited by Helga Marsala for Rice. Regional Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Palermo. A project that revolves around the nature of the photographic image, related to the strength of poetic verse: conceived as an open and evolving atlas, in which contemporary poetry and photography coexist, “Just let love strike you” brings together the research of some Sicilian artists and poets, including masters, middle-generation and emerging authors: all different figures, dialectically connected according to subtle correspondences, by contrast or by assonance. In their gazes the substance of that “plural island” echoes, admirably told by Gesualdo Bufalino. The exhibition will be open until September 13th.
«Italo Calvino urged us to “fight the abstractness of language” at the beginning of this century. And so, among the other objectives and meanings that everyone can attribute to the exhibition conceived and curated by Helga Marsala for the Museum – says the director of the Riso Museum, Evelina De Castro – this is also appreciated, in both directions: the visual works and the literary works, born according to their own autonomous language, acquire meaning in the exhibition by finding themselves combined, so as to mutually “mean” even where their form and style could be defined as abstract. From the interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphics to Jesuit emblems, the theme of “text and image” is constant in the history of culture. In a time and latitude closer to us, from the magazine Paragone (1950) to Gruppo 63, established in Palermo in 1963, from conceptual art to the most current research, the theme continues to stimulate critics, historians, curators, artists, with incursions and hybridizations. In this continuum the exhibition proposes a path that sees the curator/art critic mix images and texts, whose new identity consists in being two parts of a single».
Artists:
Adalberto Abbate, Salvatore Arancio, Francesco Bellina, Carmelo Bongiorno, Iole Carollo, Gianni Cipriano, Danilo Currò, Gianni Cusumano, Francesco De Grandi, Alessandro Di Giugno, Andrea Di Marco, Daniele Franzella, Stefania Galegati, Silvia Giambrone, Adriano La Licata, Ignazio Mortellaro, Pietro Motisi, Carmelo Nicosia, Giulia Parlato, Lia Pasqualino, Turi Rapisarda, Sandro Scalia, Fabio Sgroi, Basic Descriptive Study, Nerina Toci, Sergio Zavattieri.
And with contributions from:
Letizia Battaglia, Giorgio Bertelli, Tano Cuva, Giuseppe Leone, Uliano Lucas, Melo Minnella, Walter Mori, Federico Patellani, Angelo Pitrone, Ferdinando Scianna
EXHIBITION SHEET
“JUST LET LOVE AFFECT YOU”
Notes from the plural island, between poetry and photography
edited by Helga Marsala
Royal Hotel for the Poor
Corso Calatafimi 217 | PALERMO
Inauguration
June 27th at 6pm
Show dates
28 June – 13 September 2024
Timetables
Monday to Friday from 9am to 5.30pm (last entry at 5pm)
first Sundays of the month (7 July, 4 August, 1 September) from 9.00 to 13.00 (last entry at 12.30)
Free entry
Info and contacts
+39 091320532 – ext. 208 (URP – administrative headquarters of the Rice Museum)
+ 39 091 422314 (Real Albergo delle Povere)
www.museoartecontemporanea.it
