Di Giorgio Di Marzo
It is always a pleasure to see Italian artists whose talent is acknowledged abroad: this is the case of the exhibition Italian Arcadian, held in August in the amazing setting of the Stables Galleries of the Orleans House in Twickenham, along the Thames.
Italian Arcadian has joined artists from all over the world under the ideal of Arcadia, of which Italy represented for long time – and maybe it still represents – the closest reality to that myth. And the myth has surely been the thread of this exhibition, where artists of high level have showed masterpieces that have left a sign on the Arcadian tranquility of this quiet foreshortening of the English countryside.
Among the others, Franco Marino is definitely one to talk about. International artist both on the creative and the organisational point of view, being him the promoter of Folate Iridescenti – Iridescent Gusts, a project based on the concept on network: a network of solidarity and intense exchange of experiences among artists. To be pointed out his research on the myths of the worlds flew into the exhibition Stracci al vento – Hanging rags in the wind – held in the wonderful setting of the Orto Botanico – Botanic Gardens – in Naples.
Antonio Ledda, a versatile Sardinian artist, tells the soil with its rites and myths. He also is a complete artists, creator of different itinerant exhibitions, among them Trenino dell’Arte – Little train of the Art, where some wooden drawers of different size, similar to a painting by Mondrian, are left to the imagination of other artists.
Carlo Fatigoni is the creator of the website www.blogonrimbaud.org. His art spans from painting to music, from sculpture to videos, always inventing and re-inventing myths through their desecration. His multifaceted projects represent a pole of attraction for other artists to whom he is a reference point thanks to his volcanic creativity.
Among the young who do have something to say, I would point out Nicola Mette, whose works are inspired by facts of crude reality rendered even cruder by his sage use of colours, and Susanna Viale, who spans from baroque expressionism to the oneiric geometrism, from metaphysic to surrealism.
Special thanks go to Jill Rock, artist and curator of the exhibition, lovely host, and to David Medalla, artist and founder of the London Biennale.
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