Art itineraries in Abruzzo.

Abruzzo, in addition to its important natural heritage, is also characterized by a relevant artistic offer able to satisfy the most demanding public.

In addition to museums, monuments, villages, Romanesque churches, castles, caves, hemits and ancient necropolis, many and interesting exhibitions available to tourists.

Among the events from today to the end of April we can mention:

• “Night Diary. Of dreams, nightmares and imaginary bestiaries” is the collective exhibition that presents the works of thirteen international artists born in the last thirty years of the last century.
  

It is held in L'Aquila, at Maxxi, until March 3, 2024.

Bea Bonafini | Thomas Braida | Guglielmo Castelli | Giulia Cenci | Caterina De Nicola | Anna Franceschini | Diego Marcon | Wangechi Mutu | Valerio Nicolai | Numero Chromatico | Agnes Questionmark | Jon Rafman and Alice Visentin.

To these is added a special project by Giuseppe Stampone in dialogue with the photographs of Scanno from the Franco and Serena Pomilio Collection.

Diario Notturno, which honors in the title one of the literary masterpieces of Ennio Flaiano, invites you to live in dreams and explore the nightmares of the present. In a contemporaneity characterized by constant transformations, the artists involved propose a common imaginative, ironic or disruptive approach, which, by borrowing a term referring to artificial intelligence, could be called "generative".

Within the exhibition path, in continuity with the dreamy and visionary atmosphere of the works exhibited in the first rooms, there is the special project of Giuseppe Stampone that reinterprets some significant places of the territory of Abruzzo through drawings on paper and wood. His works are then placed in a dialogue with the photographs of the suggestive village of Scanno from the Pomilio Collection and made by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mario Giacomelli, Hilde Lotz-Bauer, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Mimmo Jodice and Ferdinando Scianna: images in which there is a look at the daily life of one of the most representative villages in Abruzzo, with particular attention to the industriousness of the women whose traditional clothes are recognized....

• “Mario Airò. The form is transformed”, the fourth solo exhibition of Mario Airò in Pescara, Vistamare until April 26, 2024, in the gallery.
  

The title takes up the name of a "pop up" book for children, where what matters is to arouse wonder through the transformation of the image, from geometric to imaginative, a universe other than Airò's rigor, yet contiguous. The exhibition presents a series of works by the artist, from the most recent to the most historical, in dialogue with some works by Giovanni Anselmo, Ettore Spalletti, Haim Steinbach and Jan Vercruysse, whose work has played a significant role in his artistic career.

The large artistic universe of Airò is presented in the eight rooms of the gallery through sculptures, canvases and wall paintings. In the main hall, 5 large tables of calligraphic tempera on plaster alternate in space with the small slabs of radium, presented for the first time in the gallery, as a form of complementary counterpoint in which the rich elaboration of the latter is related to the almost absolute white of the canvases. In the other rooms, the dialogue between works and authors generates environments with atmospheres that are sometimes rarefied and ephemeral others loaded with elements through a comparison that is committed to highlight the ability that the The artist's predecessors, some of whom became his fundamental travel companions, to bring new life and semantic and existential wealth to the "ruptures" and disruptive openings that History had put in his hand.

In The form is transformed the elements are articulated differently from one work to another: in some one aspect of matter is preferred, in others another of its qualities. And the shape is generated from one or the other, as if they were the central axes of the lathe around which the mass of the work gravitates waiting to define itself.

• "Liana Ghukasyan. The discreet charm of imperfection” The imperfect charm of the works of Liana Ghukasyan on display in Pescara, at the Museum of the People of Abruzzo from 3 to 28 February 2024.

Sinuous forms, refined in their unconventional being: the works of Liana Ghukasyan explore the world with a powerful and personal look. Armenian nationality, he was born in Germany but in his country he studied Fine Arts, then moved to Milan to complete his path to the Brera Academy: a baggage of the soul that the artist carries with him and that has formed an innate sensitivity.

The paintings thus become visible emotions that they open up to comparison with the other, in the sign of a mutual welcome that is not a simple exchange. It is no coincidence that the theme of the exhibition that on February 3, at 6pm , will open in the halls of the Museum of the People of Abruzzo, is "The discreet charm of imperfection": a sincere way of looking at oneself and others through sign and color. Ghukasyan's paintings disarm, avoid contrasts, offer a worldview that leads back to the community and eliminates virtual separations.

Curator Mariano Cipollini writes in the critical notes of the exhibition: "Imperfection, no longer the prerogative of male-made culture, becomes a liberated and liberating aesthetic canon, ready to mark iconic bilateral passages. Liana recovers pasts belonging to her homeland and her private land, planning visual exposure, without conditioning. The modesty that partly identifies her leaves room for the crudeness of her stories, giving way to a concept of innovative graphic elegance." Precisely the strong sense of the roots inserts, among the objects preserved and exhibited in the Museum of the People, the paintings of Liana Ghukasyan as an ideal completion, which brings Abruzzo closer to another but nearby land, with its asperities and its great and painful history.

"The proposals of a highly innovative artist enrich our rooms with a new experience - emphasizes the director of the Genti d'Abruzzo Foundation, Letizia Lizza - deepening the research path that we have been carrying out for a few years, through the constant enhancement of talents capable of impolating a change and new strength to contemporaneity".

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