BETWEEN LANDSCAPES AND SAILS: PASQUALE CELONA'S ‘’MIRAGGI‘’ ON EXHIBIT IN PISTOIA - FB
BETWEEN LANDSCAPES AND SAILS: PASQUALE CELONA'S ‘’MIRAGGI‘’ ON EXHIBIT IN PISTOIA
20 May 2024
Saturday 25 May, at 5.30 pm in the Frescoed Rooms of Pistoia's Palazzo Comunale (Piazza del Duomo, 1) will see the opening of the solo exhibition ‘Miraggi’ by Pasquale Celona, founder and president of the Florence Biennale.
Curated by Jacopo Celona and Melanie Zefferino, with the cooperation of the Municipality of Pistoia, in the four frescoed rooms of the Municipal Building, the temporary anthological exhibition presents more than thirty paintings realised in more than 40 years of his artistic career, including still lifes, figures, landscapes and seascapes, and his beloved sails. Alongside these subjects are two well-known works, Primavera (1985) and Annunciazione (1992).
Born in 1943, Calabrian by birth but Tuscan by adoption, in 1995 Pasquale Celona, together with his brother Piero, created and founded the Florence Biennale, International Exhibition of Contemporary Art and Design (of which he is now President), which in 14 editions has achieved exciting results and which next year is preparing to experience another extraordinary moment with its 15th edition and over thirty years of activity.
However, throughout all this time, Celona has never forgotten that he is first and foremost an artist, extremely sensitive to everything around him: as Melanie Zefferino has noted, on his canvases Celona has transposed "his visions of landscapes, but also of figures and things suspended in an atmosphere between the real and the imaginary. Wandering among pastel-coloured clouds, fairy trees and iridescent sails, through his dreamlike visual narrative, Celona also recounts that, on the shores of the Ionian Sea, the ‘descendants of Magna Graecia’ still today erect huts - as ephemeral as they are evocative in the artist's paintings, as they take us back to summer evenings spent in our youth and imprinted in our memory, where the memory has taken on the blurred contours of myth. The artist collects and reinterprets the cultural heritage of the West," continues the exhibition's co-curator, "but also the cues of the 20th century and of contemporaneity, infusing his paintings, through his particular use of light, with the colours and suggestions of Calabria, his birthplace, but also of Tuscany, his adopted land. And he does this by observing, and at the same time reinventing through images, the world around him. The representations that derive from his artistic endeavours are as imaginative as they are elusive in their aesthetic value, hinging on a continuous search for harmony and beauty. These paintings are therefore admirable ‘mirages’, oils on canvas in which light becomes the corporeity of a fantastic universe of a thousand colours".
Until 16 June, the exhibition is open to the public with free entry every day (except Mondays and 2 June) from 11 am to 1 pm and from 3 pm to 6 pm.
INFO EXHIBITION
MIRAGGI
Pasquale Celona's anthological exhibition
25.05.2024 - 16.06.2024
Opening Saturday 25.05 at 17.30
Frescoed rooms of Palazzo Comunale
Piazza del Duomo 1, Pistoia
Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. (Monday and 2.06 closed)
Free entrance
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