Book presentation
Studi d’artista. Un’avventura culturale by Antonello Tolve
Opening exhibition VISITING
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From the book to the exhibition: Galleria Paola Verrengia presents Visiting, the group show curated by Antonello Tolve whose exhibition project stems from the book Studi d’artista. A cultural adventure in Rome (Silvana Editoriale 2024). It will be discussed on Wednesday 18 December 2024, from 6 p.m., at Galleria Paola Verrengia, with the curator and the artists Elena Bellantoni, MarcoColazzo, Iginio De Luca, Alberto Di Fabio, Emanuela Fiorelli, Licia Galizia, Sandro Mele, Claudia Peill, Paolo Radi and CiroVitale, in dialogue with Erminia Pellecchia.
The recently published volume puts the studios of ten artists under the lens, where the protagonists are the spaces, the works, the thoughts of figures who live in the present button as presences, as patient agents of time, as active witnesses. The exhibition Visiting is the natural consequence of this. In it, each individual studio is told through a ‘precious resultant’ (A. Tolve) that is the work.
Understood as a workshop, as a place of creative otium, as a perfect space of thought, as an environment of reflection and research, as a luminous centre of solitude or as a plural environment of thinking and thinking itself, the artist’s studio becomes with Visiting a moment of reflection.
Of each of these ten artists have been chosen a number of significant and representative works of small or medium size, capable of best rendering the individual modus operandi and conceiving an exhibition narrative made up of pleasant diastemias, rebounds, necessary jarring, complicities.