Catanzaro, MARCA hosts a solo exhibition by Cesare Berlingeri

From February 8 to April 15, 2019, the MARCA - Catanzaro Museum of the Arts, directed by Rocco Guglielmo, celebrates Cesare Berlingeri (Cittanova, 1948), one of the most appreciated and well-known Calabrian artists on the national and international visual arts scene, with a solo exhibition. The review, titled Forms in Time, curated by Maurizio Vanni and organized by the Rocco Guglielmo Foundation and theProvincial Administration of Catanzaro, in collaboration with theSpirale d’idee Association and theCesare Berlingeri Archive, presents 50 works, including some created for the occasion, that can trace Berlingeri’s creative journey from the 1980s to the present.

The exhibition, which involves the three floors of the Calabrian museum, opens with some of his most significant installations, then continues with a dialogue between historical works from the MARCA collection and those produced for this appointment by Berlingeri.

As the curator, Maurizio Vanni, states, “Berlingeri does not seek a homage to the past and certainly does not want to challenge the great names that have preceded him. Rather, it is as if he wants to complete the space with a conversation with time, with forms that seek a connection with the essence of the works present, through a ’suspended ephemeral’ that allows the visitor to experience the collection through unprecedented optics.”

The retrospective also offers an extensive comparison between Berlingeri’s recent works and historical works, such as those characterized by the ultramarine blue color of the 1980s, which have marked his international artistic journey and have been exhibited, among others, in some of Brazil ’s most important museums such as at MAM - Museum of Modern Art in Salvador de Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, and MAC - Museum of Contemporary Art in Goiânia.

“Cesare Berlingeri’s works,” Maurizio Vanni points out, “have the power to question reality, space and time and to redefine the whole, identifying new elements of meaning destined to modify codified theories and thoughts. Berlingeri does not work from the idea of something that has already happened, but almost as if in a propitiatory rite he projects himself onto what has yet to happen. The result is a constant artistic evolution where nothing is ever the same and even if it were, our emotional intelligence would not recognize it at a distance of time because it itself is transformed. Everything responds to an ephemeral matrix that is synthesized in one or more actions, folds, windings, installations that are more cerebral than physical, linked to forms that enhance more the cyclical conception of time than space.”

Accompanying the exhibition is a volume with texts by Maurizio Vanni (Director of the Lu.C.C.A. Museum), Domenico Piraina (Director of Palazzo Reale in Milan) and Teodolinda Coltellaro. For all information you can visit the official MARCA museum website.

Pictured: Cesare Berlingeri, Trinity Triptych (2010; mixed media on shaped canvas, 150.5 x 93.5 cm). Courtesy private collection, Reggio Calabria. Photo by Giovanni Fava

Catanzaro, MARCA hosts a solo exhibition by Cesare Berlingeri

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