Exhibitions resume in Portofino with Riccardo Guarneri and Gioni David Parra's two-person show

A double solo show for two Tuscan artists away in Liguria. In fact, from June 4 to July 10, the Brown Castle in Portofino will host the two-person show Correspondences, featuring a historical name of Italian abstraction, that of Riccardo Guarneri (Florence, 1933), and a protagonist of contemporary Italian sculpture, Gioni David Parra (Pisa, 1962). The exhibition is curated by art historian Alberto Dambruoso, who chose this title and decided to bring the two artists into a dialogue both because of the long relationship of mutual friendship that binds them and because of the numerous references that can be seen between the works, though very different, of the two protagonists.

Inside Castello Brown, between the 1970s and 1990s, gallerist Daniele Crippa was responsible for mounting art exhibitions that have remained in history, where the most illustrious names include Arman, Afro, Capogrossi, Casorati, Dova, Festa, Gilardi, Manzoni, Mitoraj, Parmiggiani, Pomodoro, Rotella, Scanavino, Schifano, Vedova and many others. The previous exhibition in summer 2021, dedicated to Elio Marchegiani, kicked off the resumption of exhibitions at the castle, with a calendar relaunched by Daniele Crippa himself. The two-person exhibition of Guarneri and Parra is thus the second chapter in this new phase of the castle’s history.

“Riccardo Guarneri and Gioni David Parra,” explains Alberto Dambruoso, “are two artists from different generations (in fact, Parra could be a pupil of Guarneri’s), with different paths and, above all, operating in two totally different spheres: the former is a painter and the latter a sculptor with a strong sense of material and color. If these are the points that differentiate the two artists, many more, however, are those that, on the contrary, place them on a plane of absolute consonance. First and foremost, common not to say identical, is the approach to artistic research, understood by both as an analytical investigation of the structural, sign, material and chromatic components of the work of art. The study of luministic effects on the former’s canvas and on the latter’s marble is another commonality, as is the general recourse to constructive elements of a geometric order. After all, both Guarneri and Parra are Tuscan, and drawing and geometry are notoriously at home in that region, constituting a kind of artistic DNA present in almost all artists born in the land of Masaccio, Piero, Brunelleschi, Donatello and Paolo Uccello. In the exhibition ordered at the Castello di Portofino, the dialogue established between the two artists could therefore only be under the banner of mutual correspondences.”

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog Gli Ori Editore. For all info you can visit the website of the Portofino International Center for Outdoor Sculpture.

Image: Gioni David Parra, MatterMusic I (2022; white marble and gold leaf on pasted score on framed board and black velvet, 66 x 54 x 7 cm)

Exhibitions resume in Portofino with Riccardo Guarneri and Gioni David Parra's two-person show

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