Fabio Viale premieres his Three Graces with a Veil

Protagonist of the city of Pietrasanta’s summer exhibition in Piazza Duomo will be Fabio Viale (Cuneo, 1975): it will be titled Truly and will be on view from June 27 to October 4, 2020.

In collaboration with Galleria Poggiali, the exhibition will display about 20 works between Piazza Duomo, the church and the cloister of Sant’Agostino.

“Fabio Viale’s entire artistic production is a perceptual displacement in which the tactile values of painting and the plastic values of sculpture merge into a single qualitative refinement for human feeling. As in a short-circuit, the artist manages to subvert the history of aesthetic balances that we are used to contemplating in sculpture: a classical and ideal beauty that no one before him had thought of revolutionizing with another tradition, perhaps even much older, that of tattooing,” said curator Enrico Mattei.

Fabio Viale will present a world premiere in the Church of St. Augustine of The Three Graces. Made of white marble and detailed in their drapery details, the sculptures represent three women originally from the city of Ghardaia, Algeria, with whom Viale came in contact during one of his frequent travels. The women forced to wear burkas, leaving only one eye uncovered, place an emphasis on the theme of denied freedom. Viale creates a visual and semantic short-circuit between the personal protective devices, particularly the masks, to which people were not accustomed, and the sculpture The Three Graces, linking the symbolism of the veil and the relationship with reluctance toward others, especially those covered.

In St. Augustine’s Church itself, The Three Graces will dialogue with the sculpture Star Gate, evoking the theme of spirituality, personal, worship and meditative freedom. Star Gate is made of arabesque marble and consists of two monumental fruit boxes, more than two meters tall, joined to each other to form a gateway, a passage and at the same time a limit to be crossed to which are associated predispositions of new spirituality and emancipation that counterbalance the Three Graces.

Instead, monumental tattooed works will be placed in Cathedral Square. In particular, a novel face, a kind of mask, in monumental scale of Michelangelo’s David, entitled Souvenir David, stands out.

The Cloister and adjacent ground-floor rooms will feature a series of famous works by Fabio Viale: fromInfinity in Black Marble to a version of The Supreme.

The Poggiali Gallery also announces that Fabio Viale’s exhibition Acqua alta - High tide, set up in the Florence exhibition space, will be back on view from May 18 until October 4, 2020, with free admission.

The Truly exhibition in Pietrasanta will be free admission and can be visited from June 28 to Sept. 6 daily from 7 p.m. to midnight; from Sept. 7 to Oct. 4, Tuesday through Thursday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., Friday from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Fabio Viale premieres his Three Graces with a Veil

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