Villa d'Este in Tivoli traces the art of Pino Pascali with more than 90 works

TheVilla Adriana e Villa d’Este - Villae Institute presents until May 7, 2023 at the Villa d’Este in Tivoli the exhibition Theatra Mundi: Pino Pascali, curated by Andrea Bruciati, organized with the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome and theArchivio dell’Opera Grafica di Pino Pascali in Florence.

On display are ninety-four works including sculptures, installations, paintings, videos, graphic and polymateric works that trace the production of Pino Pascali (Bari 1935 - Rome 1968), painter and sculptor, but also animator, graphic designer, advertising, set designer, actor and photographer. An exhibition itinerary that unfolds in six rooms of the villa, a magnificent place of the Italian Renaissance, where Pascali had exhibited in his youth, having just moved to Rome.

From his earliest trials, Mediterranean archetypes and myths merged in his imagination with contemporary suggestions, giving rise to an ironic and sometimes irreverent production. Beginning with the 1964 Biennale, he also reworked Pop Art themes in a personal key. In all Pascali’s works, a funambulistic creativity emerges. His reputation as a “terrible boy” underscores his volcanic nature, his irony, his propensity for playfulness and joking, but also his inventive capacity, which enabled him in less than five years to leave a profound mark on Westerncontemporary art. He exhibited in major galleries, and his exhibitions ran from January 1965, the time of his first solo show at La Tartaruga in Rome, to September 1968, when he died of a tragic accident.

“To highlight the link between Pino Pascali and Villa d’Este,” said Andrea Bruciati, director of the Tivoli Villae, “two events should be noted: in 1956 the artist, newly enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome participated in the group show for young artists Painting Exhibition at the Tommaseo Institute in Tivoli, and in 2007 the two works, Bachi da setola and Fiume con foce tripla, were hosted at Villa d’Este in the exhibition in collaboration with the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome entitled, ’50 - ’60 la scultura in Italia. Proposing the work of Pino Pascali aims to give continuity to the link between the artist and the scenic Mannerist mansion by setting the latter as an ideal stage for the brief and extraordinary parabola of the author, a multifaceted innovator and multifaceted interpreter, and reaffirming its central role as a workshop of contemporaneity with strong roots in history.”

Photo by Villa d’Este.

Villa d'Este in Tivoli traces the art of Pino Pascali with more than 90 works

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