A former newsstand in Siena revives with art by Cesare Biratoni

The site-specific installation PROVVISORY by artist Cesare Biratoni (Barcelona, 1969), inaugurated on October 12 during the 20th Day of the Contemporary promoted by AMACI, will be on view until December 8, 2024. The work is part of the initiatives related to the PiNg project, curated by Paolo Francioni and presented by Giallo Menta aps in the ex-Edicola space on Via Quinto Settano in Siena. PiNg was created with the intention of initiating cultural-based urban regeneration processes. The project aims to transform a disused space into a landmark for the surrounding urban fabric and the people who frequent it. Biratoni develops a poetics based on the confrontation between different mediums, focusing in particular on the practice of painting.

His painting (read more about Cesare Biratoni’s art here) often extends into space, becoming an installation. Through the use of images, the artist combines, superimposes and modifies them, creating new visual juxtapositions. Everyday details and gestures are transformed into new images, giving rise to a continuous formal evolution. With PROVVISORY, Biratoni seeks to relate his artistic practice to the architecture of the former Edicola, achieving an effect of rupture and visual dynamism. The PiNg project stands as a space for reflection that explores intertextuality in art. The focus is on how works generate new keys to interpretation and become vehicles of content capable of creating networks of relationships, enigmas and ambiguities. The space of exploration moves between physical and mental dimensions, investigating the boundaries of the work and the limits of interpretation. Parallel to the project, the workshop Perturbing Images was held on October 11 at the premises of ASD Bocciofile Senesi, in Siena. Cesare Biratoni led the meeting, joined by young artists Viola Di Fazio, Claudia Persia and Elia Robecchi, with the support of the Giallo Menta aps association. The workshop developed Biratoni’s poetics, focusing on the comparison between artistic mediums and painting. The training event, linked to PiNg, was financed by the Tuscany Region’s Toscanaincontemporanea24 call for proposals and co-financed by Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena’s Reset call, as part of Costellazioni Culturali.

Notes on the artist

Born in 1969, Cesare Biratoni graduated in Painting following Beppe Devalle’s course at the Brera Academy in 1992. In his work there is no difference between collage and painting, between a drawing and a print cut out, retouched and then reassembled, they are often one the consequence of the other. The combination of different papers, whether photographic cutouts or not, most often results in a painterly choice, as in the juxtaposition of a warm and a cold color. Since 2004 he has taught in several art high schools between Monza and Varese, developing an interest in art also in its didactic and theoretical aspects. Since 2010 he has participated in several exhibition and curatorial projects, contributing to the foundation and management of Riss(e) and Surplace, two artist-run spaces in Varese. With Ermanno Cristini he directs the magazine Bordi, a critical discussion space for artists, philosophers and art theorists. He has exhibited in public and private galleries and museums, in solo and group exhibitions.

A former newsstand in Siena revives with art by Cesare Biratoni

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