Turin, at the Ettore Fico Museum two solo shows of Pignatelli and Scarabello

From March 11 to June 19, 2022, the MEF-Museum Ettore Fico in Turin will present two solo shows by two Italian artists of different generations: Luca Pignatelli (Milan, 1962) and Alessandro Scarabello (Rome, 1979).

The ground-floor rooms of the museum host Luca Pignatelli’s solo exhibition, curated by Luca Beatrice and produced in collaboration with Galleria Poggiali. The exhibition presents about fifty works intended to cover the last years of his artistic research. Through a reflection on memory, image and time, Pignatelli develops a personal vision of a “liquid and circular time,” thus giving life to a sort of “theater of memory,” the result of a heterogeneous archive of personal and collective themes, from ancient and contemporary eras. It alternates between site-specific installations, large canvases and works completed in the last decade, in which abstraction prevails over figuration.

This most recent phase of the artist’s work is strongly characterized by monochrome backgrounds and earthy, muted colors on which, however, reds, from cinnabar to ringing vermilion, predominate. Also present will be the iconic themes and figurative elements that have made him famous, such as sculptural heads, emperors, and statues of mythological gods belonging to the classical culture of ancient Greece and imperial Rome. Pignatelli experiments and intervenes on poor and salvaged materials: hemp canvases, stitched and torn tarpaulins, irons and carpets, become supports for a visual universe that starts from painting and meets other languages and new forms.

Winner of the Ettore and Ines Fico Prize in 2020, Alessandro Scarabello dialogues with the contemporary international avant-garde. The exhibition Repetition kills, curated by Andrea Busto, director and president of the Ettore Fico Museum, features some 20 large oils on canvas that testify to how in recent years the artist has been able to combine the ghostly forms of pictorial ectoplasms with history and contemporary culture. With evocations bordering on abstraction, Scarabello introduces in his works a remarkable amount of aesthetic information ranging from Balthus to Luc Tuymans, from Scipio to the latest Titian, in which everything is layered in a drafting on the borderline between figuration and abstraction. The exhibition is produced in collaboration with The Gallery Apart gallery in Rome.

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Image: Luca Pignatelli, Dioscuro, detail (2020; mixed media on hemp, 227 x 130 cm)

Turin, at the Ettore Fico Museum two solo shows of Pignatelli and Scarabello

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