Exhibitions, Italy, Treviso, Castelfranco Veneto, 11 July 2015
From 11th July to 8th August – Galleria Castellano arte Contemporanea
Two-person painting and sculpture exhibition.
Exciting Maestro-student interaction – two generations side by side.
Inauguration: Saturday 11th July 5pm
Artists: M° Giorgio Celiberti and Mazzocca&Pony
Presentation: Beppe Castellano
Aperitif courtesy of “Le Corti”, Via Roma 37 - Castelfranco Veneto (TV)
Catalogue available at the exhibition.
Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 10am – 1pm and 4pm – 7.30pm
It is also possible to make reservations outside opening hours.
info: +39 3480302605
FREE ENTRY
CASTELLANO Arte Contemporanea
Via Roma, 38 – 31033 Castelfranco Veneto TV
(500 metres from the train station)
http://www.castellanoartecontemporanea.com
info@castellanoartecontemporanea.com
http://www.facebook.com/castellanoartecontemporanea
A dear friend of mine introduced me to Giorgio Celiberti about fifteen years ago, when we stepped by chance into one of his solo exhibitions in Rome. He was a small man, dressed all in black, with a white beard and white hair. He shook my hand and told me: “you have the curious, intuitive eyes of an artist.” Thus a laugh broke the tension of this encounter with an artist I so admired.
I could not imagine, back then, that years later I would open an exposition gallery in my town, but after two years, in 2007, we finally brought the Maestro to Castelfranco Veneto.
This exhibition was an opportunity to get to know each other. Since then we have kept in touch regularly. I showed him my work several times, and he offered both compliments and criticism, sharp but sincere. In 2009 he told me: “your research will lead you to collage. I don’t know how, but you will get there.” I had always detested collages because, contrary to my training, they entailed a paper support and stood for a technique I considered immature and old-fashioned. I remember that I was upset by his words, to the point that I dismissed the idea.
Over the years my research progressed, stubbornly following my own path. One day, not many months ago, while describing a project of mine I wrote: “engraved PVC collage…” In that moment I suddenly remembered Celiberti’s words, which I had dismissed years before.
The greatness of an artist lies in their ability to see “beyond”. This exhibition was thus born from a brief exchange over the telephone:
“Maestro, would you like to do an exhibition with me, just the two of us, your works and mine?”
“It would be an honour for me!” was his laconic reply.
Giorgio Celiberti (Udine, 1929) is an Italian painter and sculptor.
Celiberti is one of the last living artists to have participated in the first post-war Venice Biennale in 1948. Celiberti started out as a great drawing artist and later switched to oil and fresco painting. His frescos are highly tactile, sharp and cutting in their cleanliness and wealth of contents. His clay sculptures, transferred onto bronze or aluminium, maintain the same features. An experience which determined (rather than simply influenced) his poetics was his trip to Terenzin, near Prague, in 1965. He visited the concentration camp where thousands of Jewish children found their deaths. From that moment onwards, his work represented the answer to those children’s pleas for help, and more. It is as if Celiberti conversed with each and every one of those children. Since that journey, 50 years ago, Giorgio has changed – now he speaks of love, chases after butterflies, cuddles cats, writes and plays with all those children with whom he shared a connection. He is father, friend and voice to all those voices which have since been muted, to those thousands of pure souls. His existential suffering lies in his living in two worlds simultaneously. The “traces” he will leave upon the world are already here, they are his works, constant witnesses to his existence.
Mazzocca&Pony (Treviso 1963, lives in Castelfranco Veneto) painter and creative artist.
A life consecrated to art has led Mazzocca&Pony to try countless techniques and materials. Upon reaching artistic maturity she condensed her reflections in a cycle called “The Garden of Eden.” She takes second-hand clothes, heavy with the experience of their past owners, binds them tight with zinc-coated iron thread and “mineralizes” them with resin to preserve them forever. The end result is a “mondino”, a single cell or primitive molecule – a source from which everything originates, but which retains a memory of the past, making it into a living construction block from which to start again. These “mondini” are then attached to a skeleton frame made of a single zinc-coated iron thread and moulded to represent Trees of various shapes and sizes, or stuck on a support of engraved PVC collage. Each work is part of the same fantastic Garden, from which we draw our life’s oxygen.
Two-person painting and sculpture exhibition.
Exciting Maestro-student interaction – two generations side by side.
Inauguration: Saturday 11th July 5pm
Artists: M° Giorgio Celiberti and Mazzocca&Pony
Presentation: Beppe Castellano
Aperitif courtesy of “Le Corti”, Via Roma 37 - Castelfranco Veneto (TV)
Catalogue available at the exhibition.
Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 10am – 1pm and 4pm – 7.30pm
It is also possible to make reservations outside opening hours.
info: +39 3480302605
FREE ENTRY
CASTELLANO Arte Contemporanea
Via Roma, 38 – 31033 Castelfranco Veneto TV
(500 metres from the train station)
http://www.castellanoartecontemporanea.com
info@castellanoartecontemporanea.com
http://www.facebook.com/castellanoartecontemporanea
A dear friend of mine introduced me to Giorgio Celiberti about fifteen years ago, when we stepped by chance into one of his solo exhibitions in Rome. He was a small man, dressed all in black, with a white beard and white hair. He shook my hand and told me: “you have the curious, intuitive eyes of an artist.” Thus a laugh broke the tension of this encounter with an artist I so admired.
I could not imagine, back then, that years later I would open an exposition gallery in my town, but after two years, in 2007, we finally brought the Maestro to Castelfranco Veneto.
This exhibition was an opportunity to get to know each other. Since then we have kept in touch regularly. I showed him my work several times, and he offered both compliments and criticism, sharp but sincere. In 2009 he told me: “your research will lead you to collage. I don’t know how, but you will get there.” I had always detested collages because, contrary to my training, they entailed a paper support and stood for a technique I considered immature and old-fashioned. I remember that I was upset by his words, to the point that I dismissed the idea.
Over the years my research progressed, stubbornly following my own path. One day, not many months ago, while describing a project of mine I wrote: “engraved PVC collage…” In that moment I suddenly remembered Celiberti’s words, which I had dismissed years before.
The greatness of an artist lies in their ability to see “beyond”. This exhibition was thus born from a brief exchange over the telephone:
“Maestro, would you like to do an exhibition with me, just the two of us, your works and mine?”
“It would be an honour for me!” was his laconic reply.
Giorgio Celiberti (Udine, 1929) is an Italian painter and sculptor.
Celiberti is one of the last living artists to have participated in the first post-war Venice Biennale in 1948. Celiberti started out as a great drawing artist and later switched to oil and fresco painting. His frescos are highly tactile, sharp and cutting in their cleanliness and wealth of contents. His clay sculptures, transferred onto bronze or aluminium, maintain the same features. An experience which determined (rather than simply influenced) his poetics was his trip to Terenzin, near Prague, in 1965. He visited the concentration camp where thousands of Jewish children found their deaths. From that moment onwards, his work represented the answer to those children’s pleas for help, and more. It is as if Celiberti conversed with each and every one of those children. Since that journey, 50 years ago, Giorgio has changed – now he speaks of love, chases after butterflies, cuddles cats, writes and plays with all those children with whom he shared a connection. He is father, friend and voice to all those voices which have since been muted, to those thousands of pure souls. His existential suffering lies in his living in two worlds simultaneously. The “traces” he will leave upon the world are already here, they are his works, constant witnesses to his existence.
Mazzocca&Pony (Treviso 1963, lives in Castelfranco Veneto) painter and creative artist.
A life consecrated to art has led Mazzocca&Pony to try countless techniques and materials. Upon reaching artistic maturity she condensed her reflections in a cycle called “The Garden of Eden.” She takes second-hand clothes, heavy with the experience of their past owners, binds them tight with zinc-coated iron thread and “mineralizes” them with resin to preserve them forever. The end result is a “mondino”, a single cell or primitive molecule – a source from which everything originates, but which retains a memory of the past, making it into a living construction block from which to start again. These “mondini” are then attached to a skeleton frame made of a single zinc-coated iron thread and moulded to represent Trees of various shapes and sizes, or stuck on a support of engraved PVC collage. Each work is part of the same fantastic Garden, from which we draw our life’s oxygen.
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