Thomas Braida's solo exhibition at the Concord National Museum

From March 26 to May 13, 2023, the Museo Nazionale Concordiese in Portogruaro (Venice) will host the exhibition Hỳbris, debris, Pastis, a solo show by Thomas Braida (Gorizia, 1982), one of the most interesting young Italian artists, curated by Eva Comuzzi and Orietta Masin, promoted by Circolo ARCI Cervignano APS under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture - Regional Directorate Museums Veneto and in collaboration with Museo Nazionale Concordiese with the contribution of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, Municipality of Cervignano del Friuli, Municipality of Rivignano - Teor and Cassa Rurale FVG, under the patronage of PromoTurismo FVG and the collaboration of numerous public and private entities.

Braida is an artist of cultured and extravagant painting born in Gorizia, a city that has always been unpredictably fertile with talent. The exhibition investigates what was the influence on Braida’s works of the specific territorial connotations linked to his origins and what the importance of his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice (the city where he has lived and worked for many years) that have led him today to exhibit in the best Italian galleries. Hỳbris, debris, Pastis is thus a small compendium of his research, begun in the 2000s, between painting and sculpture. Braida is an artist with a vivid imagination, irreverent and impertinent, who makes Ensor, Grosz, Goya, the Baroque, the Bible, Greek mythology, but also Lady Gaga and Captain Harlock coexist. At first glance ’dirty,’ ironic, grotesque, his works actually conceal a delicacy and purity of vision that the artist has been able to protect and preserve to this day from the world of childhood.

On display will be a dozen sculptures scattered among the archaeological finds inside the showcases on the upper floor and among the remains on the ground floor of the museum where a large canvas suspended in the central aisle will welcome visitors to this original exhibition.

An in-depth look at his painting will also be hosted at the Magazzini del sale of Villa Ottelio Savorgnan in Ariis di Rivignano-Teor, where the last exhibition of the planned review will open on April 15. A large group exhibition with a further development of the theme ’the forbidden body’ already dealt with in the two exhibitions still in progress at the Casa della Musica in Cervignano del Friuli with the works of Laura Pozzar and Stefano Questorio (winner of the residency on the Island of Amphora) and in Romans d’Isonzo in the collateral exhibition KEN’E(SP)TSU - Censorship in the world of anime and videogames. Both will close on March 24.

Thomas Braida’s exhibition project includes the first contributions to Go!2025 Nova Gorica and Gorizia European Capital of Culture 2025, which will continue and conclude the show between May and June in the last section dedicated to narrative theater with Giorgio Monte and in-depth historical study with the updated reprint of the book Storia di Gorizia by Lucio Fabi published by QuduLibri.

The museum opens Monday through Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. For Easter, Easter Monday and April 25 open from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. For Sunday and other holiday openings see the Concord National Museum’s FB page.

Image: Thomas Braida, Ugly fruit stand.

Thomas Braida's solo exhibition at the Concord National Museum

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