Five Florentine artists transform books into canvases and sculptures
Opening on Thursday 30 April at 17:30
LINEA Spazio Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Via delle Porte Nuove, 10 (Florence)
Opening on 30 April at 5:30 pm, the group exhibition entitled PAPER REINCARNATIONS, realised by Florence Biennale, aims to explore the universe of paper and books.
Presented at the Italian Cultural Institute in Valletta, Malta, on the occasion of the last 14th Week of the Italian Language in the World, the exhibition now arrives in the rooms of the LINEA Spazio Arte Contemporanea gallery (Via delle Porte Nuove, 10) until 29 May.
Nilo Australi, Diego Gabriele, Andrea Granchi, Gianna Scoino and Piero Viti are the five artists who live and work in Florence, generations in comparison who, experimenting with new techniques for using paper and the artist's book, in search of new ways of interpreting this ancient but always topical material, enhance its multiple lives in a dance of memory.
About thirty works are on display, including artist's books, ancient letters transformed into sculptures, old texts revisited in a contemporary key and works inspired by paper and printed pages. At least six for each of the five authors, a parterre that compares the conceptual work of different generations of contemporary artists, all active in the Tuscan capital.
Andrea Granchi and Gianna Scoino, formerly professors at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence and established artists with a biography full of national and international exhibitions. As well as Piero Viti, a multifaceted artist who has always been characterised by a lively experimentalism. Lastly, Nilo Australi and Diego Gabriele, two young emerging artists experimenting with new techniques using paper and books in search of new ways of interpreting this ancient but always topical material.
Free entrance.
