The Province of Arezzo is pleased to host the work of the artist Fabio Bardelli, to whom a personal exhibition will be dedicated in the choreographic Atrium of Honor of the Palazzo della Provincia. Thirty works (all paintings) will also be an example of museographic commitment, because the exhibition does not include support paneling or use of the walls (frescoed in a geometric ambient style, in the early twentieth century). Bardelli is one of the reference pictorial figures in the Arezzo area; art and author do not come from far away (Torrita di Siena, 1968), but it is as if, looking at that painting, we are driven to stay there and perhaps convinced to enter and re-enter it so as not to exit, almost caught and lost at the same time.
The Academy of Fine Arts of Urbino, the studies with Elio Marchegiani and Omar Galliani and Gian Ruggero Manzoni, then the world: his, the one that is reflected in today’s history, for an almost canonical, ordinary sensitivity, but which significant, expressively intense when it becomes disordered, when in short it becomes more true, authentic to the point of being said to be capable of wasting itself in technical disquisitions. The quality of Bardelli’s work is a reference to the acrobatic aspect of living: he is quiet, within his own distance from things, but then he covers them with a kind of chemical film that lights up the truth in him and in us. As Fabio Migliori writes in the Effigi Edizioni catalogue, Bardelli’s feeling is all in a strange painting with almost Balkan roots, bordering on a contemporary Slavic myth that no one believes in. This is how the Arezzo critic discovers and rediscovers the artist’s thoughts in his painting: a gypsy journey in which loosely but boldly administered structures can be felt. Fabio Bardelli never disappears from the text of his painting; it seems that the meaning of that description can only be that of one’s own self-description.
Fabio Bardelli’s pictorial text is not capable of being ambiguous; never plays too long; it no longer runs as far as a symbolic story from the last part of the twentieth century would have done. Yet it reveals a taste for reading that he desires, desiring himself: the painting that gives in on itself, is put aside on its remains, in some way advances because it is never enough. The exhibition will be explored in depth in an Effigi Edizioni catalogue, with a presentation by Alessandro Polcri, President of the Province of Arezzo; the critical introduction by Fabio Migliorati, curator; the text by Gian Ruggero Manzoni, art historian.
Promoted by ForKunst, with the patronage of the Tuscany Region, the Province and the Municipality of Arezzo, the contribution of Ulric Studio, of Cosmos servizi, Arezzo pays homage to one of its artists who has not been supported enough so far: and it does so from 5.30 pm on Saturday 29 June 2024. Citizens are invited to take part in the presentation of the work in the Council Hall (of the Greats), in the presence of the President of the Province Alessandro Polcri, Councilor Simone Palazzo, the Curator of the exhibition Fabio Migliorati, the artist Fabio Bardelli, and then go down to the Atrio d’Onore where the exhibition will remain open until 21 July 2024, from Thursday to Sunday and from 11.00 to 20.00.
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