Corrado Veneziano's Terrae Nostrae. Barcodes and writers celebrate the Italian landscape.

From Dec. 20, 2019 to Jan. 11, 2020, Spazio Veneziano in Rome presents, after a preview in Castellaneta, the exhibition Terrae Nostrae by Corrado Veneziano (Tursi, 1958).

The works on display will be dedicated to the products of the earth: from the olive tree to the vine, from wheat to pomegranate. Curated by Niccolò Lucarelli, the exhibition takes up the theme dear to Veneziano, namely book barcodes, the so-called ISBNs, linking them to classical and modern authors, especially from the Mediterranean area, and showing the richness and visionary power of elements characteristic of Italian culture.

Thus, among seemingly technical and algorithmic barcodes, vines of grapes, olive leaves, grains of wheat, pomegranates are camouflaged in blue, violet, and golden skies and fields.

Veneziano’s paintings are accompanied by writings by Hesiod, Virgil, Cato, Lucretius, and Thucydides to celebrate the beauty of the Italian landscape. In painting, the artist unites the harmony of nature with the harmony of thought as a hope that our technologized contemporary will preserve the spiritual heritage that gave birth to flourishing civilizations.

The exhibition can be visited free of charge daily from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Image: Corrado Veneziano, Isbn Thucydides (2017; oil on canvas)

Corrado Veneziano's Terrae Nostrae. Barcodes and writers celebrate the Italian landscape.

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