On Saturday 20 March at 18:00 pm, the exhibition IL SEGNO, LA MATRICE. Aspects of XNUMXth century art graphics dedicated to XNUMXth century engraving, curated by Pasquale Ruocco, opens to the public online, on the digital channels of the FRaC Museum and the Municipality of Baronissi.
The exhibition, which is part of the “CONTEMPORANEA 2020: the arts, the object” review, was financed by the Campania Region (Initiatives for the enhancement of regional cultural heritage DD 42 of 25/09/2020).
"A new opportunity - writes Gianfranco Valiante, mayor of Baronissi - is proposed to admire works of our time, contributing to animate the study of art as well as, today more than ever, the reflection on its role within our society. We do so by hosting in the rooms of the Regional Museum-Fund of Contemporary Art, Baronissi, an exhibition dedicated to aspects of twentieth-century engraving in Europe and Italy, confirming the value of this space as a place of study and research. This, after all, is the objective that the municipal administration carries forward with the certainty of contributing to the diffusion and promotion of art, understanding the museum in its qualities of public service, aimed at cultural growth and social cohesion".
“The exhibition itinerary – as Gianfranco Valiante underlined in his presentation of the catalogue – follows the aspects characterising the history of graphics and engraving through the works of artists such as Heckel, Carrà, Picasso, Miró, Magritte, Dalí, Capogrossi, Vespignani, Bartolini, Starita, Zancanaro, Treccani, Freeth, Strazza, Del Pezzo, Napoleone, Bruno, Pesce, Willburger, Lacasella, Rizzelli, Manno, Avella, Marcon, Casciello, Vollaro, Lovaglio, to name a few, up to the younger Bindella, Poto and Timpani, analysing the linguistic peculiarities of a traditional lexicon, yet still capable of expressing itself by comparing itself with the present, prompting reflections on contemporary communication systems. An exhibition that, in its progress, is in line with the activities already started by the Museo-FRaC and that have looked at the experiences of graphic art in Italy - I recall those dedicated to Antonio Pesce, to the Laboratorio di Nola of Vittorio Avella and Antonio Sgambati, to Peter Willburger and the Italian engraving of the Nineties, to the Grafica di Via dei Sette Dolori of Matera up to the one dedicated to Francesca Poto - further highlighting works that have long belonged to our collections".
An exhibition, imagined by the art historian Pasquale Ruocco, created thanks to the availability of the artists, the collections of the Museo-FRaC of Baronissi and private collections, which was born as a reflection on the media looking at engraving as a possibility to encourage less obvious and homogenizing attitudes towards the system of production and distribution of images.
“The exhibition proceeds – the curator himself explains – preferring a thematic organization, by stages, rather than a rigid chronology, like a road trip, one might say, open to deviations; to the stimuli coming from the direct study of the works; to the understanding of the technical choices and the expressive effects sought, responding to the need to look at engraving as a medium with an undeniable creative use, considering it not as a dead language, but as a field of free experimentation”.
The exhibition will be visible online until April 27, as well as on the official channels of the Municipality of Baronissi and the FRaC Museum, also on the pages of Gutenberg Editions.
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