The National Library of Naples is pleased to announce the inauguration of the exhibition “Nel Silenzio”, an artistic exploration of the work of Giacomo Leopardi through the contemporary gaze of the artist Paolo Gubinelli.
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Curators and Inauguration
Curated by Gubinelli himself and Fabiana Cacciapuoti, of the Centro Nazionale Studi Leopardiani, the exhibition presents a series of works inspired by Leopardi's manuscripts. Gubinelli's creations transform the poetic idea into signs and scratches on paper, establishing a silent dialogue between sign and image. The inauguration will be held on Tuesday 18 June 2024 at 16:00 pm at the National Library of Naples. The Director Silvia Scipioni and illustrious speakers will be present, including Novella Bellucci of Sapienza, University of Rome, Fabiana Cacciapuoti of the Centro Nazionale Studi Leopardiani, Raffaele Gaetano, essayist, and Antonello Tolve of the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples.
Exhibition Details
The exhibition will be open from June 18 to July 23, from Monday to Friday, with guided tours at 12:00 and 17:00 (Friday only at 12:00). “Nel Silenzio” represents a unique opportunity to immerse oneself in Leopardi’s poetic universe through Gubinelli’s artistic interpretation, inviting the public to reflect on the connection between art, poetry and writing.
Information and Contacts
For more information about the visit, please contact the email address bn-na.urp@cultura.gov.it. “Nel Silenzio” offers a new and engaging perspective on Leopardi, promising an artistic and cultural experience of great impact.
Biography
Born in Matelica (MC) in 1945, he lives and works in Florence. He graduated from the Art Institute of Macerata, painting section, and continued his studies in Milan, Rome and Florence as a graphic designer, designer and architectural planner. At a very young age he discovered the importance of the spatial concept of Lucio Fontana which determined a constant orientation in his research: he met and established an understanding of ideas with artists and architects: Giovanni Michelucci, Bruno Munari, Ugo La Pietra, Agostino Bonalumi, Alberto Burri, Enrico Castellani, Piero Dorazio, Emilio Isgrò, Umberto Peschi, Edgardo Mannucci, Mario Nigro, Emilio Scanavino, Sol Lewitt, Giuseppe Uncini, Zoren.
He takes part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
His works are permanently exhibited in major museums in Italy and abroad.
In 2011 hosted at the 54th Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion at the Arsenale, invited by Vittorio Sgarbi and chosen by Tonino Guerra, installation of n. 28 cards cm. 102×72 accompanied by an unpublished manuscript by Tonino Guerra.
In his artistic activity, after pictorial experiences on canvas or with non-traditional materials and methods of execution, he developed a lively interest in “paper” very early on, which he felt was the most congenial means of artistic expression: in an initial phase he worked on white cardboard, soft to the touch, with a particular receptivity to light, which he engraved with a blade, according to geometric structures that he sensitized to the play of light by manually folding it along the incisions. Later, he replaced the white cardboard with transparent paper, always engraved and folded; either in sheets, which were arranged in the environment in a rhythmic-dynamic progression, or in rolls that unfold like papyrus on which the very light incisions at the limits of perception become the signs of a non-verbal poetry. In his most recent artistic experience, always on transparent paper, the geometric sign, with its constructive rigor, was abandoned for a freer expression that translated, through the use of colored pastels and barely perceptible incisions, the free unpredictable motion of consciousness, into a completely lyrical-musical interpretation. Today this language is enriched on paper with watercolour tones and gestures, acquiring a more intimate density of meaning.
He has created works on paper, artist's books, canvas, ceramic, plexiglass, glass with engraved and embossed signs in a lyrical-poetic space.
Article published on 14 June 2024 - 15:00
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