THE MAV OF HERCULANEUM “ARCHAEOLOGICAL FACES” BY TRISTAN SOLER
On Thursday 8 June, at 20.00 pm, for the 15th anniversary of the MAV, the exhibition “Visages archeologiques/Archaeological Faces” by Tristan Soler, curated by Mario Serenellini, will be inaugurated in the Space Gallery of the Museum
Speakers include:
Luigi Vicinanza – President of the CIVES/MAV Foundation of Ercolano
Ciro Cacciola – Director of the MAV of Ercolano
Tristan Soler – Author
Mario Serenellini – Curator
Following the singing and harp performance Canzoni per Calypso with Ginevra Gilli
The series “Archaeological Faces” by Tristan Soler is a serial work of 25 paintings, made on mixed media paper, in medium format. Each work measures approximately 45 x 65 cm.
The exhibition, with free admission, will remain on display from 8 June to 5 July 2023, from Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00 to 17.00.
Tristan Soler, French artist, born in 1967, lives in Paris and Burgundy. He is a painter, designer, set designer, sculptor, photographer, writer. For fifteen years he has been the protagonist of theatrical readings (in 2010 and 2012, at the Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris). He exhibits in France and Europe.
Around forty exhibitions, both collective and personal, have been held from 89 to today, in Paris, Barcelona and Denmark, to which were added, in 2005-2007, Happenings in situ in India, Nepal, Malaysia and New York.
A great traveler (about sixty countries), since 2008 he has written six novels and various collections of short stories and poems. Among his published texts: Le voyage D'Icare Valverde, 2008, a phantasmagorical tale about the experience of travel, Cœur Atome, 2009, about the war in former Yugoslavia, Fjall, aux confins du monde, 2015, with his illustrations.
Plastic arts teacher to children and adolescents, author of articles on contemporary art, he has illustrated over twenty books and magazines, including Jazz en suite (2000), Ce que Lacan disait des femmes (2003), John Coltrane and Miles Davis (Actes Sud, 2007 and 2009), Le Mystère Monk (Seghers, 2022).
His works appear in private collections in France, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Russia, Bulgaria, USA.
Critical text Archaeological implications by Mario Serenellini
In 'A livella, Totò (Antonio De Curtis) speaks of death and therefore of life: of the after and therefore of the before. Imagining in his poetry the nocturnal meeting, outside the tomb, between a marquis and a street cleaner, both deceased, neighbors in a burial niche, Totò makes them appear in their common existential nothingness: my skeleton is the same as yours. You have no preferential bones.
In Archaeological Faces, Tristan Soler brings the dead back to life: from two thousand years ago. But he does not make them resurrected, 'revanchists'. He lets them emerge in their solitude, in their nothingness: we are here, confused with each other, Calypso with Ulysses, Penelope with Telemachus, the Siren with the sea.
Life under the volcano. Before and after. Herculaneum, Pompeii: 'a level, forever.
Article published on 5 June 2023 - 15:30
