Curated by Maria Vittoria Pinotti
Exhibition promoted by the Department of Culture of Roma Capitale, Azienda Speciale Palaexpo, and Fondazione Mattatoio di Roma – Città delle Arti
Organized by Azienda Speciale Palaexpo with the patronage of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and AICA, the International Association of Art Critics
Produced by Azienda Speciale Palaexpo in collaboration with Twiceout
The exhibition traces fifteen years of pictorial research by Vincenzo Scolamiero, Professor of Painting at the Department of Visual Arts of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, the city where he lives and works. This extensive time span allows for an in-depth understanding of the artist’s evolution. His first solo exhibition was held at the historic Al Ferro di Cavallo gallery in Rome in 1987, and the present show offers a comprehensive and articulated overview of his production. The exhibition features more than thirty works, including paintings on canvas and panel, works on paper, and artist’s books.
The exhibition explores the many areas that have always nourished the artist’s research, deeply influenced by the reading of poetry, the listening of music, and a constant attention to the smallest traces of everyday life. In this way, painting becomes a site of profound reflection, expressing an inner mobility and a philosophical attitude toward life.
The title of the exhibition, Da qualche parte della terra (With Some Part of the Earth), taken from a verse by the poet Louise Glück, refers to an all-encompassing relationship with the world, which emerges in the works on display through minimal traces, suggesting reflections on the transience and impermanence of human existence. Moving through the exhibition spaces, one encounters a painting characterized by the construction of a dynamic space, grounded in the concept of emptiness as a structural element of the works.
The exhibition path begins with a series of works in which compositional balance is built on a few elements and marked by a minimal spatial suspension; the subsequent rooms present works characterized by a gradual opening toward greater tonal and structural complexity, resulting from an increasingly close relationship the artist establishes with music and poetry. Direct references to this relationship can be found in the titles of the works on display, such as Piero Bigongiari, Harrison Birtwistle, Louise Glück, and Luigi Nono.
The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue published by De Luca Editori d’Arte, featuring critical texts by Francesca Bottari and Maria Vittoria Pinotti.