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Finale Ligure, June 2017 <\/i>\u2013 The Union of the Finalese Cities, the Promoting Society of Fine Arts of Liguria and the Art Gallery MAG of Como, present Master <\/i>Antonio Pedretti<\/i><\/b>\u2019s Solo Show\u00a0<\/i> titled Varigotti Live <\/b>with vernissage on Saturday July 22nd at 9.00pm, <\/b>at the Oratory of the Disciplinanti at the Monumental Complex of Saint Caterina in Finalborgo (SV).<\/b><\/p>\n
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The exhibition will be on from July 23rd to August 13th 2017, from Tuesday to Sunday 5.00pm-11.00pm, Mondays closed.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
The Union of the Finalese Cities , in the person of the Culture Councilor Claudio Casanova, the President of the Promoting Society of Fine Arts of Liguria Dott. Mario Moneta and the curator of Antonio Pedretti\u2019s Archive Salvatore Marsiglione, present the solo show of Antonio Pedretti, one of the most active contemporary Master, titled Varigotti Live.<\/p>\n
In the story of a Master already consolidated as Antonio Pedretti, each exhibition is like a dowel to apply to chronology, each one composes his own life and artistic path. This exhibition in such a prestigious location like the Oratory of the Disciplinati in the Monumental Complex of Saint Caterina in Finalborgo, is so an important piece for Antonio Pedretti\u2019s life, who uses to spend the mild seasons on Varigotti\u2019s hills.<\/p>\n
The exhibition is organized on the two expositive floors of the Disciplinati\u2019s Oratory in the Monumental Complex of Saint Caterina in Finalborgo, one of \u201cthe most beautiful Italian Villages\u201d.\u00a0 At the ground floor the series of \u201cVarigotti Live\u201d presented in all its entirety composed by 25 artworks created with a deep technical research which overtakes the materia and the support and changes their schemes. At the first floor instead,\u00a0 a selection of only 22 artworks, some of his historical works including the one which was exhibited at the Corderie dell\u2019Arsenale on occasion of the 54th Venice Biennale.<\/p>\n
His\u00a0 relationship with the village of Varigotti is as visceral as the one with his Lake, here he finds an incomparable equilibrium, where sea and rocks meet together, where nature is still uncontaminated and the white lands\u00a0 peek out in these time marked paths.<\/p>\n
In this\u00a0 new subject matter, Pedretti\u2019s work lives by itself, he transforms his snowfalls into white rocks, his wood into trees and bushes, the sky into the sea, but he is always loyal to his own gestural art and matter which mark him in the national and international painting scenario. His research has leaded him to the study of other places, but above all to deepen and mainly interact\u00a0 with the matter, because in this case, the support is a completing section to the aesthetics\u00a0 in addition to the technique; the cardboard surface glued to the support on canvas is not only suitable to receive the color, but it includes the color as the latter does with the cardboard.<\/p>\n
In this way the Master gives to it another meaning, it is nomore a support, the canvas is it, but it is a completing element of the representation.<\/p>\n
To viewers\u2019 right question:\u201c painting has to go towards representation or towards\u00a0 informal?\u201d the Master answers returning us a symphony, where the\u00a0 more harmonies, that make it up, raise and lower the tones and intensity, they mingle one with the other, from a painted and \u201ckneaded\u201d rock you go\u00a0 to a sky which merges with the sea like in the best scenarios, where a tree, trunk\u00a0 or bush keep the gaze anchored toward the figure. The cuts, the rips, the mechanical removals to\u00a0 the thick cardboard often create rocks, lands and beaches with the naturalness of the gesture. The landscape\u2026 is the most recognized iconography and so the most Pop, but he is able to realise it always differently , and it is us who have to observe it with different eyes. We have to be able to hear the sound of the sea, to smell the scent of nature or the sour of cliffs as the artist sees them and as we remember them.<\/p>\n
Salvatore Marsiglione<\/p>\n