Turi Simeti's works in an anthological exhibition in Catanzaro

It kicked off on Sept. 22 and will last until Nov. 24, the major anthological exhibition dedicated to Turi Simeti (Alcamo, 1929), a protagonist of spatialism declined with extroflexed works that place his name alongside that of celebrated artists such as Agostino Bonalumi and Enrico Castellani, together with whom he has already been exhibited several times. The exhibition, which is entitled Turi Simeti. Works 1961-2017, is being held at MARCA - Catanzaro Museum of the Arts: there will be several works, including a dozen early achievements, arranged in a path that develops chronologically up to the most recent research, in a span of fifty years of career that intends to reaffirm, we read in the presentation, “Simeti’s role within the most interesting research of the years of the economic boom between Rome and Milan, and focuses attention on his entire creative iter through some particularly representative works.”

Art research in the postwar period, the presentation continues, “sees in Simeti an up-to-date if anomalous representative to the European vulgate. His activity departs from a focus on the surface datum understood as a sensory field, far removed from a merely object-oriented and positivistic approach to the canvas. To the purely two-dimensional investigation, the artist responds with the refinement of the place of painting that becomes three-dimensional, initially with applications on the canvas of elements in relief and then with the extroversion that marks the first step toward a kind of painting-object, through an ideal dialectic between the thrusts of an internal structure and the forms turned outward.”

The exhibition is open daily (except Mondays, closing day) from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Full price ticket is 4 euros, reduced price ticket is 3 euros. Organized by the Rocco Guglielmo Foundation and the Provincial Administration of Catanzaro with the collaboration of the artist and the Turi Simeti Archive. Catalog published by Prearo Editore, includes an essay by Andrea Bruciati. During the exhibition, the Calabrian museum will also host the presentation of the catalog raisonné of Turi Simeti’s work, edited by Antonio Addamiano and Federico Sardella, published by Skira and produced by the Turi Simeti Archive.

Image: Turi Simeti, 12 red ovals (2016; 180 x 130 cm; Courtesy Archivio Turi Simeti).

Turi Simeti's works in an anthological exhibition in Catanzaro

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