Pietrasanta, on display two generations in comparison: Vincenzo Marsiglia and Giulio Turcato

The history and the present of art seeking a point of contact, between differences and affinities. This is the purpose of the new exhibition format of Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, in Pietrasanta, which aims to bring together, in a single environment, a historical artist and a contemporary artist highlighting their common vision, affinities and peculiarities of research.

The first appointment is with the exhibition Back and Forth. Giulio Turcato / Vincenzo Marsiglia, curated by curator Beatrice Audrito. The exhibition places Giulio Turcato (Mantua, 1912 - Rome, 1995), one of the most important painters of Italian art after World War II and among the main exponents of informal abstractionism, in dialogue with Vincenzo Marsiglia (Belvedere Marittimo, Cosenza, 1972), a contemporary artist belonging to the new abstract generation, who has identified his distinctive sign in a simple graphic symbol in the shape of a four-pointed star called Marseille Unity (UM). A form that the artist endlessly declines with different techniques and materials to experiment with all its creative possibilities by making use of painting, sculpture and digital media.

Two artists of different generations, united, however, by the same multidisciplinary attitude and design dynamism that expresses itself with absolute freedom to achieve the coherent construction of its own formal code, always remaining open to the new. It is precisely this openness to modernity that brought Giulio Turcato closer to the world of science. His passion for biology, physics, and astronomy will guide all his production: from the creation of the Lunar Surfaces of the 1960s, to the theme of the cosmological exploration of the sky developed in the Itineraries and Archipelagos of the 1970s, to the Acropolis and the luminous surfaces of the Cangianti.

A constantly evolving language that can also be traced in Vincenzo Marsiglia’s production, beginning with his early works in felt, made by cutting out and applying the four-pointed star to the surface of the painting to create paths and itineraries that resemble chromatic maps with a playful cosmology. A ploy by which the artist frees himself from the practice of painting in order to “make painting” in other mediums: from sculpture to digital installation, seeking ever new relationships and balances that change with the changing light and stimulate the interaction of the viewer. Resorting to a great variety of media and means of expression in order to cover a wide range of possibilities, the two artists give life to an abstract world where forms, colors, light and movement are no longer mere narrative tools but become the very content of their art.

Back and Forth, as the title suggests, allows the viewer to move “back and forth” in time as well as in space, to make a free incursion between past and present through the production of Giulio Turcato and Vincenzo Marsiglia.

The exhibition will be open Thursday through Sunday with hours 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4-8 p.m. For information: pietrasanta@galleriagiovannibonelli.it, www.galleriagiovannibonelli.com.

Pietrasanta, on display two generations in comparison: Vincenzo Marsiglia and Giulio Turcato

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