Press Release – Flavio Romualdo Garofano
Monotypes by Sara Cancellieri – From 1 June to 5 July 2024 –
Saturday 1 June, at 5pm, at the Studio Project of the Gallery Mondoromulo contemporary artthe artist’s monotypes will be presented to the public for the first time Sara Cancellieri inspired by the famous book by Pietro Piperno “De Nuce, Beneventan sorceress”.
The 78 plates constitute an editorial project entitled “The Golden Viper”. These works transform the events narrated in the first chapter of the 1640 book into images. The fulcrum of the project is the story that leads to the transformation of the idol of the golden viper, venerated by the Lombards, into a chalice. Among the protagonists of the story we find the Bishop of Benevento and Santo, Barbato, and Duke Romualdo who, at the invitation of Barbato himself, decides to abandon the cult of the golden viper to approach Christianity, obtaining in exchange help to defeat the Byzantines.
Cancellieri’s work inaugurates the Project Room of the gallery, a space dedicated to the exhibition of collateral and original artistic projects by artists who collaborate with the Telesina reality. The presentation of these works at Mondoromulo Arte Contemporanea takes on a particular significance, given that the gallery is located in the birthplace of the Bishop of Benevento, Barbato.
During the event, there will be interventions by the artist Sara Cancellieriby the contemporary art curator and critic Francesco CreteOf Don Pino Di SantoVicar General of the Diocese of Cerreto Sannita – Telese Terme – S. Agata de’ Goti, and of the historian, journalist and writer Pasquale Carlo. Afterwards, the debate will be open to public contributions.
