La Nuvola Gallery is pleased to present, on Friday, April 14 at 6 p.m., at Via Margutta 41, L'impresa e l'Opera, curated by Alice Falsaperla.
Sponsored by the Municipality of Roma Capitale, this is a group exhibition of the artists who make up Ombrelloni Art Space, a reality that arose in Via dei Lucani in San Lorenzo, which has transformed the former industrial area making it a fertile basin and a place of osmotic, artistic and cultural research.
The invited artists are Alessandro Calizza, Krizia Galfo, Greg Jager, Cristallo Odescalchi and Matteo Peretti. Their path is forwarded, individually, nationally and internationally, private and museum. They can be mentioned, collectively, the Gallery of Modern Art (GAM) and the Spazio Struttura at Palazzo Odescalchi in Rome, among the latest exhibition spaces, up to the Vera project, published Quodlibet.
On this occasion, the artists find themselves declining, with their own style, the concept proposed by the curator, imagined as an abstraction adherent to Werner Herzog's film-masterpiece: Fitzcarraldo (1982).
The exhibition, created as a result of research conducted on the authors' productions, follows a common thread with respect to Herzog's film, focusing on five macro-themes: exoticism, vanitas, myth, the dreamlike, and colonialism. Twelve works are on display, created for the occasion, in different media, techniques and sizes, with which the artists bring back their own original vision of archetypes and ideals of a reality and surreality, both present and sempiternal.
Visually, through the authors' creations, the figure of Fitzcarraldo is recalled: the lucid madman, rebellious against an ephemeral rationality. In the film work, he bends events to his own ambition to bring the Opera House to the Amazon Rainforest, "until he crosses a rise with a ship and, as he is about to succeed, on the brink of a new life, he begins to shipwreck," the curator explains. The artists, through papers, canvases, sculptures and sound installations, the latter in collaboration with composer Alessandro Angiolillo, symbolize an inner and collective world.
From a social point of view, the event will allow citizens to admire until May 5, for the first time in Via Margutta, the meeting of two Roman fulcrums, such as "the artists' street" and San Lorenzo, whose streets have been, at different times and in different ways, filled with the colors of the authors who have inhabited and walked them. It is a Rome-meets-Rome, in dialogue with the complexity of historicity and contemporaneity about it.
To ensure the possibility of new interpretative keys, from historical-artistic to cultural and environmental issues, a talk mediated by curator Alice Falsaperla, the permanent collaborator of the Land And Water Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of Unite Nations (FAO), Giusy Emiliano, art historian Matteo Giuseppone and the artists will also be hosted on May 4 in the spaces of La Nuvola Gallery to shed light on the link between the works on display and the themes of the exhibition. The meeting will see, with the occasion, the presentation of the brochure dedicated to the collective, with an introductory text by poet Elio Pecora.
