Letizia Ardillo presents the work "The seven wells of Malkhùt" at the biennial exhibition "Strictly books" at the Monti Foundation in Foggia: fourth biennial exhibition of the artist's book.

Letizia Ardillo participates with the work "Isette pozzi di Malkhùt" at the exhibition "Strictly books" a at the Monti Foundation in Foggia: fourth biennial exhibition of the artist's book
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The exhibition Strictly books… Fourth Biennial Exhibition of the Artist's Book, curated by Vito Capone and Gaetano Cristino, will be inaugurated on Saturday 8 June 2019 at 6.30 pm in the Galleria of the Monti United Foundation in Foggia, Via Arpi 152.
Seventy-one artists of different nationalities and different nationalities, a rich exhibition made possible thanks to the collaboration, in harmony with the curators, of a group of important experts, artists, art historians, archives of artists' books and gallery owners (Laura Anfuso, Maddalena Carnaghi, Alfonso Filieri, Raffaella Lupi, Teresa Pollidori and Stefania Severi).
  "This synergy - said the President of the Foundation, prof. Aldo Ligustro - has allowed us to structure an exhibition that highlights the wealth of creative expressions that can arise from the book form and the many possible readings, "tactile" as well as visual, of the most recent experiences related to the artist's book. Together with the other biennial exhibition, Tracarte, and the many anthological exhibitions of artists made so far, including Rigorosamente libri, an exhibition created on the impulse of Maestro Vito Capone, now in its fourth edition, attests to the non-generic or episodic commitment of the Fondazione dei Monti United in promoting the knowledge of contemporary visual arts ”.
"The exhibition highlights one of the assumptions at its base - Gaetano Cristino said in his turn - and that is that the artist's book cannot be harnessed in a 'genre', but constitutes, as Giorgio Maffei believed, one of the greatest connoisseurs of matter, a "polyform object". It is a book that transgresses the rules of the book to become form / space / theater of the most daring artistic variations, where writing and image, the substance and the tactile values ​​of the many materials used (from paper to wood to glass to stone to metals), also innovative and "strange", and many voices (of the poet, of the painter, of the sculptor, of the engraver, of the photographer ...), they chase each other, confront each other, exclude each other, recompose themselves, dialogue, and become an infinite alchemical process of ever new relationships and achievements that manage to even tie past and present and speak to the user of the problematic reality of the world, and of their individuality, even when the pages are white or closed by the cover. And the exhibition itself has privileged the free approach to the works - the curator concluded -, without suggestions of diachronic readings or thematic or technical aggregations or related to materials: the exhibition is the historical precipitate of the individuality of the artists and is the uniqueness of their passions, their meditations, which each work must give back to us ".