The Apuan Alps and the beaches of Versilia in the archipictures of Mario Bibolotti: the exhibition in Stazzema

On view from July 15 to August 20, 2018, at the Casa del Berlingaio in Stazzema (Lucca), is the exhibition Mario Bibolotti 1918-1990. Archipitture, dedicated to two phases of the artistic research of Mario Bibolotti (1918 - 1990), a painter from Versilia who came from a family with a long artistic tradition and was active mainly in his homeland. The exhibition, curated by Antonella Serafini and Cinzia Bibolotti, displays works from the 1940s, a period during which the artist carried out research on the landscape of the Apuan Alps and Versilia, and paintings from the 1970s and 1980s, in which forms tend toward abstraction, sublimating the landscape into architectures (hence the term “archipitture”) of formidable chromatic clarity. In addition, the exhibition also delves into the history of the Bibolotti family, with a dedicated section.

“The personal and artistic vicissitude of Mario Bibolotti,” explains Antonella Serafini, “adds a further piece to the history of 20th-century Versilia culture, a vast and articulated history made up of the presence on site of a high number of painters, sculptors, writers, poets, and musicians and the unfolding of their creative activity here. In this context, Bibolotti’s biography delivers us a complex and multifaceted character. He is descended from a noble dynasty of marble sculptors and craftsmen and from the founders of the mundane Forte dei Marmi. In this environment his start to studies and an artistic career seems natural.”

“Mario Bibolotti,” says Cinzia Bibolotti, “lives in a city dedicated to the artistic working of marble, where there are many important studios with specialized workers that make it appreciated all over the world. She spends her summers on the wild, golden beaches of Forte dei Marmi. The environmental beauty of the resort, enclosed between the sea and the Apuan Alps, meanwhile attracts the greatest artists, from Carlo Carrà, brought there by Arturo Dazzi, to Ardengo Soffici, Felice Carena, Raffaele De Grada and many others. All of them have homes in Forte dei Marmi and paint en plein air, making the Versilia landscape immortal.”

The exhibition opens Thursday through Sunday from 5 to 10 p.m., or by appointment by calling 339 6568145. Mario Bibolotti 1918-1990. Archipitture is also accompanied by a catalog published by Pacini Editore.

Pictured: Mario Bibolotti, Untitled (black shed) (1940s; oil on panel, 26 x 35.5 cm)

The Apuan Alps and the beaches of Versilia in the archipictures of Mario Bibolotti: the exhibition in Stazzema

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