Salon Palermo 2
A group show on new painting
Salon Palermo 2 (2022), the second edition of Salon Palermo: a group show on new painting. 13 July – 20 August 2022, RizzutoGallery, Palermo. 9 artists, 37 works, curated by Antonio Grulli and Francesco De Grandi.
We arrive once more at our annual migration, a fixed appointment by now. Italian painting once more turns toward the sun, toward life, colour, warmth.
After the success of the first edition, the Salon becomes a fixture. Francesco De Grandi joins Antonio Grulli as co-curator: nine artists from Venice, Milan, Cagliari, Palermo, Apulia and Istria. Opening until midnight.
Artists
Chiara Calore
Calore’s painting is defined by the juxtaposition of wildly varied figurative elements in ironic and visionary forms. Her canvases are crowded with a bizarre mass of improbable individuals, animals and freaks, parading across the canvas in unfettered anarchy amid a thicket of references. Their allegorical power is reabsorbed into painting that abstracts its subjects, forging impetuous narratives revolving around fugitive movements, syntheses and tensions internal to the medium’s relationship with the surface.
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Martina Cassatella
To represent the unrepresentable means rendering all forms of language equivalent, merging gesture, movement, light and word – as in Antonin Artaud’s “Theatre of Cruelty”, which is above all ritual and magical. To tell something that cannot be told.
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Roberto de Pinto
In Roberto de Pinto’s paintings, certain meteorological factors – in addition to obvious geographical ones – prompt each subject to take off their singlet, to stay in their swimming costume, to expose their naked skin to the sun’s rays.
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Barbara De Vivi
Her practice is centred on the hybridisation and superimposition of images, and on their ability to survive over time and re-emerge in new contexts. In her paintings the artist relates traditional iconographic motifs to personal concerns and to an imagery rooted in contemporary aesthetics, outlining stories that remain open and fragmentary while drawing on a shared cultural heritage.
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Aronne Pleuteri
A playful attitude toward the things of the world revitalises the capacity to imagine and opens the gates of a collective universe.
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Francesco Maria Romano
Francesco Maria Romano’s painting is a mysterious narrative in which personal events and vicissitudes are intertwined with journeys real and fictitious, imaginary and invisible. Romano’s inner dimension underlines art’s ability to open windows onto new and unexplored landscapes, in an investigation of divergent possibilities and dimensions. Dream and reality merge and blur in a mixture of memories and recollections that leads the visitor to explore the boundaries between the outer and inner worlds.
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Danilo Stojanović
Danilo Stojanović’s visual poetics is rich in dichotomies, rooted in artistic currents with opposing values, which he translates into images with an original, authentic and harmonious identity.
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Dorotea Tocco
Dorotea Tocco’s works take shape through the aberrant, with a way of thinking that departs from common morality. Her subjects are mainly women investigating their own femininity; no longer presented as objects of the painterly gaze, as scenery, they are enunciated afresh. These inappropriate bodies convey a will to profound self-determination against the preconceptions that guide society and the masses, in an attempt to conquer their own dimension through kinky practices, filth and excess.
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Vittorio Zeppillo
With an aesthetic based on contrasts, he works through a series of discordant oxymorons: surfaces are now matt, now glossy; now dry, now doughy; now clean, now dirty. The ambiguity of these dichotomies is conveyed through a mark that seems perpetually to contradict itself, in agitated and hopelessly broken brushstrokes.
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Installation views
The Salon wall
Antonio Grulli
We arrive once more at our annual migration, a fixed appointment by now. Italian painting once more turns toward the sun, toward life, colour, warmth. We now understand how much we need, we now understand how much is healthy. To embrace still more closely the eroticism of vision, magic and mystery. Again. In Palermo as always, in the heart of the city, the perfect theatre for daylight and especially moonlight raids on its neighbourhoods, among museums, bars, piazzas paved with grey and red cobblestones, to breathe all the life that our lungs can grasp. The Palermo that for us is endless banter, infinite sweat, a thousand encounters; a unique school of art and life. The Palermo that in years unkind to painting has represented a place of freedom and resistance to homogenisation. In that wedge of land that seems a strip of Europe dragged down toward North Africa and the Middle East.
- Salon Palermo 2, la collettiva di pittura da RizzutoGallery — Tiziana R. ↗
- Salon Palermo 2 (scheda mostra) ↗
- SALON PALERMO 2 ↗
- Le mostre dell’estate da vedere a Palermo e in Sicilia occidentale — Silvia Rossetti ↗
- Le nuove tendenze nella pittura italiana | Intervista con Antonio Grulli — Elena Bordignon ↗
- L'intervista ad Aronne Pleuteri, l'artista che dice di essere un parente degli gnomi — Gloria Vergani ↗
- Intervista a Vittorio Zeppillo. L'artista che racconta il rifiuto, il sogno e la precarietà — Gloria Vergani ↗