The Medici Palace in Seravezza dedicates an extensive anthological exhibition to Lorenzo D'Angiolo

From June 2 to July 31, 2022, the Municipality of Seravezza and the Fondazione Terre Medicee are dedicating an extensive anthological exhibition to Versilia master Lorenzo D’Angiolo in the rooms of the Palazzo Mediceo in Seravezza. The exhibition, entitled Epiphanies of Light. Works 1976 |2022 and curated by Nicola Micieli, with the coordination and organization of Costantino Paolicchi, intends to retrace the artist’s long career, proposing with rigor the more than forty years of Lorenzo D’Angiolo’s activity. From the beginnings to maturity and up to the most recent works that deal with the theme of migration, the exhibition aims to be a narrative of the artist’s significant contribution toart and photography.

Originally from Seravezza but living in Lucca for many years, Lorenzo D’Angiolo, born in 1939, has been painting since the early 1960s. A professional photographer since 1985, he has also been recognized and respected abroad, exhibiting in New York at the Hofstra University Museum in 1998 together with photographer Enzo Cei. A tireless traveler, D’Angiolo draws inspiration from world cultures: he has visited the Americas, China, Tibet, Nepal, Yemen, India, and Africa.

The exhibition presents sixty paintings and seven large-scale photographs that document the progressive transformations in D’Angiolo’s work and, above all, his meditation on light. It is light, as premised in the very title of the exhibition, that attracts the subjects of the artist’s works. D’Angiolo’s canvases and photographs are pervaded by light, appearing subjected to an iconic synthesis that is increasingly abbreviated as much as it is symbolically intense, as is the case in works such as The Red Mountain, The Moon in the Well, and The Morning Lights, which are also characterized by an immense silence.

The continuous seduction of light for Lorenzo D’Angiolo is an uninterrupted passage throughout his activity. It is light itself that acts on him, with its caress, with its strength, with its presence, but it is the artist’s ability to register the tangible evidence of light that astonishes the viewer in extraordinary works such as Contrapposto Lights, The Great Cloud or The White Tree.

Around 1985, after about twenty years of painting, D’Angiolo discovered photography. The impact with the new medium, the recognition of its linguistic potential in relation to his own expressive needs, meant that before long the camera gained a dominant, but far from exclusive, position on the brushes. The documentary nature of the medium, combined with the artist’s vocation to fix in the image some of the most easily recognizable and recurring archetypes in the imaginative production of peoples and civilizations, allows the author to create a new narrative: over the years the pictorial and photographic paths have intertwined and overlapped on several occasions. Each contributing specific poetic insights and visual solutions, painting and photography have equally contributed to delineating the world of an artist of multiple openings and extreme coherence.

From the architectural figures that appear in works up to ’85 to the paintings of the creative revival, one can trace those forms that recall the biomorphic and syntheticist line of modern sculpture, from Brancusi and Arp to Alberto Viani. Enlarged details extend beyond the painted surface to produce an effect of estrangement, not unlike that of Domenico Gnoli’s paintings, are found in works such as Figure Enthroned or Strike.

In the last period of his career, D’Angiolo worked on the theme ofimmigration: it is in these works that the painter and photographer D’Angiolo is particularly condensed; the reverberations of light and shadow and the fascination of civilizations, here portrayed in the pain of waiting or in the absence of a destiny, are revealed.

The exhibition is under the patronage of the Region of Tuscany, the Province of Lucca and the Municipality of Seravezza, is made possible thanks to the financial contribution of Henraux, Canniccia, 3M, VNE and has the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca and Giuseppe Nutarelli as Sponsors.

Pictured: Lorenzo D’Angiolo, The Morning Lights.

The Medici Palace in Seravezza dedicates an extensive anthological exhibition to Lorenzo D'Angiolo

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