In Rome, Corrado Veneziano's new solo exhibition pays homage to Dante, Leonardo and Cavalcaselle

From November 20 to December 22, 2022, Spazio Vene ziano in Rome welcomes Corrado Veneziano ’s new solo exhibition entitled Epiphanies, curated by Francesca Barbi Marinetti with the collaboration of Alessia Rosati.

Epiphanies are mainly divine appearances. The artist takes up this sense of visual surprise by tying it to the discovery of theunexpected within the everyday. His are human epiphanies, but no less evocative and fascinating. Therefore, the solo show becomes an exhibition between non-places, commercial places, bar queues Isbn, but Veneziano also wants to celebrate Dante ’s Commedia and Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus. Indeed, epiphanies are also scriptures, when they loosen their grammatical centrality to become pure form. And literary epiphanies are also the connected editorial bar codes, Morse codes, logos and trademarks: all reinterpreted and liberated on canvas. With this in mind, two recent works by Corrado Veneziano, namely Leonardo da Vinci’s The Atlantic Codex and Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy, also become epiphanies: these are canvases that take up Leonardo’s sketches dedicated to never-made musical instruments and crafts, and some of Dante’s tercets, which Veneziano juxtaposes with the figurative.

Also on display will be anabsolute preview of what will be Veneziano’s most important exhibition of 2023: a work dedicated to the 19th-century art historian and critic Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, focusing on his conflict between classicism and experimentation. “This is a partial anticipation and a very first confrontation with the work Veneziano has been pursuing for some time,” said curator Francesca Barbi Marinetti. “An in-depth research on the Venetian scholar and at the same time in relation to Italian art, especially Renaissance. The artist repaints Cavalcaselle’s ’travel notebooks,’ reinterpreting their sketches, arrows, captions. He recovers the most minute details and discoveries of the brilliant historian. In this way, he contributes to tracing surprising and renewed lines of art history and the history of Italian artists.”

The exhibition will be open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, 5 to 8 p.m. Free admission.

Image: Corrado Veneziano, ISBN Dante, the Paradise.

In Rome, Corrado Veneziano's new solo exhibition pays homage to Dante, Leonardo and Cavalcaselle

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