Ghibaudo's fantastic animals and paintings by Frangi, Galliano and Kaufmann on display in Carrara

Great contemporary art, as always, in the halls of Vôtre Spazi Contemporanei in Carrara , which is hosting two new exhibitions from June 17 to Aug. 5, 2023: Untitled, a group show with works by Giovanni Frangi, Daniele Galliano and Massimo Kaufmann, curated by Nicola Ricci and Federico Giannini with text by Federico Giannini, and Stanze, a solo show by Dario Ghibaudo organized in collaboration with Carlocinque Gallery in Milan and with text by Federico Giannini.

The Untitled exhibition is held in Vôtre’s salon and displays some recent works by three big names in Italian painting: Giovanni Frangi (Milan, 1959), Daniele Galliano (Pinerolo, 1961) and Massimo Kaufmann (Milan, 1963). Frangi, an undisputed master of landscape painting, brings to Carrara some of his works in which the relationship between human beings and nature is central: a nature that, in Frangi’s paintings, expresses its potential among refined seascapes, glimpses of great rivers, forests and mountains that demonstrate the experimental attitude of an artist who entrusts to natural elements, water in primis, his own idea of infinity. Daniele Galliano, on the other hand, focuses his attention on the human being captured in his everyday life, studying his behaviors, his weaknesses, his attitudes when he is alone or when he is in a group, with a liquid and blurry painting that smacks of a photographic snapshot and revisits the very idea of photography with the medium of painting. On the other hand, Kaufmann, an abstract artist, analyzes the structure of painting by examining its main tool, namely color, seeking to investigate the very origins of painting by proposing to the viewer an art based on the possibilities that painting offers: combinations of different patterns, disparate color combinations, alternating lines and dots.

On the other hand, Dario Ghibaudo (Cuneo, 1951) will occupy the 18th-century rooms of Palazzo Del Medico, home of Vôtre, with some works he recently presented at his solo shows Museo di Storia Innaturale held in Cuneo in 2022 and 41 Formelle that was instead hosted in early 2023 by Carlocinque Gallery in Milan. The public in Carrara will thus be able to admire some of the extravagant and surreal sculptures that the Piedmontese artist has created in recent years inspired, in an ironic way, by ancient zoology treatises where it was not uncommon to come across images or descriptions of animals poised between reality and fantasy, as well as some works from the 41 Formelle series that Ghibaudo presented for the first time at Carlocinque: a visionary and imaginative work, a unicum in the contemporary Italian art scene that is surprising for its innovative language but rooted in the great ancient tradition.

Both exhibitions, which can be visited at Vôtre’s headquarters in Carrara (Piazza Alberica 5), are collateral events of the seventh edition of White Carrara Downtown scheduled from June 17 to Oct. 1.

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Ghibaudo's fantastic animals and paintings by Frangi, Galliano and Kaufmann on display in Carrara

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