Carrara, at Vôtre space the exhibition-tribute to Andrea Di Marco

Until September 5, 2021, the Vôtre space in Carrara is hosting the exhibition Lievissimo, a double solo show that takes the form of a tribute by Francesco Lauretta (Ispica, 1964) to his friend Andrea Di Marco (Palermo, 1970 - 2012), a painter who died prematurely. The review welcomes a selection of large-format oils on canvas by Andrea Di Marco that are exhibited together with fifteen small works by Francesco Lauretta, specially executed for the exhibition. The exhibition is the result of a collaboration between Vôtre and Galleria Giovanni Bonelli in Milan.

“Ever since it was suggested to me to think about embracing Andrea Di Marco’s work in an exhibition,” Lauretta says, “I began to ask myself questions, or rather, to let myself be crossed by dreamed painted images [...]. With Andrea, like it or not, binds us that walk in our territories. Ispica has always been the object of my curiosity as the edge and center of my world. Whenever I return to the island I love to cross it far and wide walking and recording everything, in every season, of its evolution or involution, of its ever-changing landscape, of its festival rituals, of its people, of those who rise and die.”

Lauretta is also the curator of the exhibition: “I have formed a course,” he explains, “where Andrea’s works are installed heavily to the earth, as if to claim a tangible and mighty presence of an existence that, though brief, is rooted in the history of this country and our native island, while my small fifteen canvases, painted as only now I could paint them, verify the precariousness and difficulties of a life that flows restlessly, and possible of further contingencies that enrich, or weaken our being in the world.” Di Marco’s typical subjects are glimpses of cities where human presence is only sensed, and so they tie in with Lauretta’s small works depicting glimpses of life in dense, warm colors. The conclusion of the artist’s text, which is extremely poetic, tells of a sincere friendship and the affection that the memory still evokes, clarifying the title of the exhibition: “slight were our bodies when they met, slight the words, the smiles that brought us together. Slight was the new embrace, caressing.”

Andrea Di Marco is considered one of the leading exponents of the Palermo School and despite his untimely death was immediately appreciated for his painting dedicated to city views and details of urban settings. Major solo exhibitions: GAM in Palermo (2011), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Lissone (2013), Fabbriche Chiaramontane in Agrigento (2013). His works have also been exhibited at the Goethe Museum in Düsseldorf, Museo Riso in Palermo, and PAC in Milan. Francesco Lauretta is a multifaceted artist who ranges from painting to installations, often using heterogeneous and salvaged materials and following projects from time to time that almost never end in the space of the canvas. Major exhibitions include Galleria Giovanni Bonelli (2018), Galleria Z20 (2015), GAM in Palermo (2013), Ex Cavallerizza of Palazzo Sant’Elia in Palermo (2011), Galleria Laveronica (2010 and 2008), Galleria Carbone.to (2005, 2003 and 2000). Group exhibitions include those at Casa Masaccio in San Giovanni Valdarno (2015), Chiostro di Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan (2014), Museo Riso in Palermo (2011), Red Bull Hangar in Salzburg (2010).

The exhibition opens in July and September from Tuesday to Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m., in August from Tuesday to Saturday from 6 to 11 p.m. Sundays open by appointment. Free admission. For info: +39 3384417145, associazionevotre@gmail.com.

Carrara, at Vôtre space the exhibition-tribute to Andrea Di Marco

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