Treviso dedicates exhibition to Dante's journey, ahead of Grand Bailo opening

In anticipation of the May 2022 opening of the expanded and renovated Grande Bailo, from December 18, 2021 to March 27, 2022, the Bailo Museum in Treviso is hosting the exhibition Treviso. Dante’s Journey. The scholarly project by Paola Bonifacio, Maria E. Gerhardinger and Monia Bottaro, together with Fabrizio Malachin, made use of important public lenders and involved various institutions, while a large group of scholarly contributors offered unpublished insights into the exhibition’s themes in the catalog.

A room is dedicated to each of the three Cantiche. In Inferno, Alberto Martini ’s refined, lunar illustrations dialogue with the broad, dense mark of Tono Zancanaro’s chine. Bridging the two opposing visions is Japan’s Go Nagai, with a selection of works from his Divine Comedy. His is a Doré Manga.

Romano Abate ’s infernal sculpture bursts into the Canticle by opposing, to the levity of graphic signs, the physicality of a primordial matter: Lucifer thus lies stuck to the ground with broken wings.

Abate’s Purgatory is almost a monolith, historiated by rough paths, scars traced to suggest cyclical and exhausting paths, punctuated by sparse vegetation. Then there are the illustrated souls of Tono Zancanaro’s Purgatorio: it is a vaguely ethereal dimension, mellowed by lush plants that enthrall everything. Alberto Martini, too, in his Purgatorio, alternates the darkness of India ink, which punctually contains everything, with the light background on which the perfect sign emphasizes increasingly detached and rarefied atmospheres.

In Paradise, Abate’s Virgin is a hieratic sculpture, evocative of a mysterious, medieval memory, but also a woman of our time. All around, blues and whites characterize the paradisiacal gouaches of Tono Zancanaro, whose faith in human nature is on full display. Martini responds with his dreamy, luminous celestial geometries, which tend more and more toward light alone, the true protagonist of a progressively more abstract and symbolic reading of Dante’s Paradise.

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Image: Go Nagai, Divine Comedy, detail. Credits Go Nagai

Treviso dedicates exhibition to Dante's journey, ahead of Grand Bailo opening

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