Mara Fabbro and Alberto Pasqual: a double exhibition in Casale Monferrato

From October 1 to November 6, 2022, the Castle of Casale Monferrato(Alessandria) hosts the exhibition Mara Fabbro Alberto Pasqual. Keepers of Matter, curated by Giovanni Granzotto and Anselmo Villata. For some time now, the artistic reflections of Mara Fabbro and Alberto Pasqual have found inspirational ground in experiments with matter, so much so that Alberto’s iron and Mara’s sandy and earthy mixtures are totally freed of weight and gravity in their common encounter with a material, plastic, which is the contradiction in terms of matter itself. Thus were born Alberto Pasqual’s plastics that fly to the sky and Mara Fabbro’s laces and lace as plastics without volume.

In the Casale Monferrato exhibition, two anthological shows are presented with about 30 works by each master, in which Pasqual will privilege his famous iron sculptures and Fabbro his material visions of the water-related world. Pasqual and Fabbro’s exhibition is the second show in an exhibition project that began in the summer with Tommaso Bet and Marco Lodola and will animate the spaces of the Castello del Monferrato until the end of 2022: the third and final exhibition will be Domenico D’Oora and Sandi Renko. Meeting in Light and Color (Nov. 12-Dec. 18).

Mara Fabbro was born in Castello d’Aviano in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, where she currently lives and works. After graduating from the Istituto Magistrale di Sacile (PN), she began her career path while keeping her passion for painting alive. He studied and worked as a self-taught artist for many years, experimenting with his own technique that would express his sense for painting, making a sandy mixture that he spreads and works with his hands, palette knives and other tools, later intervening with pigment, coloring it. The choice of this material is determined by the desire to create a “living” work with a strong communicative impact that, as it leaves the canvas, goes out to meet the viewer. The inspiration and motivation for his work come from the observation of the habitat in which human beings live, he wants to investigate the relationship and the bond between man and nature, now almost indissoluble and becoming even more complex, requiring responsible choices and attention and global involvements.

Alberto Pasqual was born in 1965. He graduated as a mechanical engineer in 1985 while simultaneously working in the family workshop. In his artistic research he studies the secrets inherent in matter by mixing abstractionism of plastic form with a figural allusiveness, often metaphorical or symbolic. He experiments with different plastic materials in his production: in fact, he works with clay, plaster, ceramics, bronze, aluminum, concrete and plastic. But the real protagonist of his works is iron, his favorite material for strength and hardness, from which he brings out the study of volumes and the dynamism of forms. Compared to his origins as a figurative artist, over the years Pasqual’s language undergoes a stylistic renewal aimed increasingly at the search for abstraction. In 2006 together with architects Michele Biz and Alessandro Broggio he won the national competition "a monument to Marco Pantani" by creating a sculpture in honor of the cyclist, later placed on the Mortirolo. In 2015 he made a memorial plaque to the memory of Pier Paolo Pasolini. In the Veneto-Friuli territory he realizes several environmental interventions, including the monument dedicated to the fallen of the State Police on the traffic circle of Cusano di Zoppola, the crucifix on the wall of the Castle of Polcenigo, Eterotopia, representation of some blades of grass in steel of the height of about 8 meters in the historic center in Pordenone, Concetto, structural steel work in Piazza XX Settembre in Pordenone, Altrove, 10-meter sculpture installed at the cataloging center of Magredi in San Quirino. Alberto Pasqual lives and works in Sacile. In addition to Italian events, the artist’s numerous exhibitions include shows in Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Hungary, Slovakia and the United States, with recent shows at Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo in Venice and Museo Nazionale Massimo Pallottino in Melfi, Basilicata.

Hours: Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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Pictured: Mara Fabbro, In balance (2022), 100x100 cm.

Mara Fabbro and Alberto Pasqual: a double exhibition in Casale Monferrato

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