Tappeti stesi e appesi
from 13 April 2013 to 20 June 2013
Firenze
Tappeti stesi e appesi
In collaboration with the Aldo Mondino Archive and curated by Marco Meneguzzo, the exhibition of Aldo Mondino’s work, *Tappeti stesi e appesi* (Rugs Spread Out and Hung), opens on Saturday 13 April at the Galleria Santo Ficara in Florence.
On display until 20 June are works centred on the concept of ‘new exoticism’, one of the most recurring themes in the long and multifaceted career of the Turin-born artist, who passed away in 2005.
On display, in addition to some jewellery with oriental motifs, is the series of works known as the ‘spread-out carpets’ —simulacra of carpets, in fact painted on frames and shaped surfaces—the “Turcate” —a clear reference to Turkish folklore, with particular regard to the cultural and visual forms of the Dervish sect, but also to the artist Giulio Turcato—the “portraits” set in an Arab milieu, and culminating in the reworking of “Mekka Mokka” (1988), a sort of mandala-carpet created using 50 kilos of coffee beans on tracing paper.
This body of work by Mondino, dating roughly from 1980 – the first “spread carpet” is in fact from that year – tackles, in unsuspecting times, the theme of globalisation, starting from an apparent return to “exoticism”, that nineteenth-century pictorial movement whose stylistic features Mondino also partially adopts. In fact, this is an endeavour that succeeds in combining the pleasure of painting with a clear perception of an ongoing cultural shift, of an evident shift in the centre of global interest towards cultures considered, precisely, “exotic”, as well as with a series of cultured artistic references, typical of the artist, first and foremost that of Delacroix’s Orientalist works.
An illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by the curator, published by Carlo Cambi Editore, accompanies the exhibition.
Florence
Galleria Santo Ficara
Via Ghibellina, 164R
On display until 20 June are works centred on the concept of ‘new exoticism’, one of the most recurring themes in the long and multifaceted career of the Turin-born artist, who passed away in 2005.
On display, in addition to some jewellery with oriental motifs, is the series of works known as the ‘spread-out carpets’ —simulacra of carpets, in fact painted on frames and shaped surfaces—the “Turcate” —a clear reference to Turkish folklore, with particular regard to the cultural and visual forms of the Dervish sect, but also to the artist Giulio Turcato—the “portraits” set in an Arab milieu, and culminating in the reworking of “Mekka Mokka” (1988), a sort of mandala-carpet created using 50 kilos of coffee beans on tracing paper.
This body of work by Mondino, dating roughly from 1980 – the first “spread carpet” is in fact from that year – tackles, in unsuspecting times, the theme of globalisation, starting from an apparent return to “exoticism”, that nineteenth-century pictorial movement whose stylistic features Mondino also partially adopts. In fact, this is an endeavour that succeeds in combining the pleasure of painting with a clear perception of an ongoing cultural shift, of an evident shift in the centre of global interest towards cultures considered, precisely, “exotic”, as well as with a series of cultured artistic references, typical of the artist, first and foremost that of Delacroix’s Orientalist works.
An illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by the curator, published by Carlo Cambi Editore, accompanies the exhibition.
Florence
Galleria Santo Ficara
Via Ghibellina, 164R
Tappeti stesi e appesi
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