STILLS OF PEACE

CISTERNE DI PALAZZO ACQUAVIVA – ATRI

TOWARDS WHERE
BRUNO CECCOBELLI 

Curated by Antonio Zimarino

The first exhibition, hosted in the large hall of the Scuderie, presents a selection of works from the Iridi – Pupille series by Bruno Ceccobelli, a master of contemporary Italian painting. The title is intended to emphasise how the artist proposes, in line with his long-standing formal and visual research, an ethical and profound approach to art: the study of the physical and symbolic characteristics of forms and materials in their relationships generates the ‘poetic’ experience of art, the one that opens us up to further senses and meanings, allowing us to cast our gaze towards further horizons of meaning.

THROUGH WHAT

LUCIANO SOZIO E SIMONE CAMERLENGO 

Curated by Antonio Zimarino

In the following rooms, a second, separate but contiguous exhibition reflects on what ‘today’s’ poetic roots are. Luciano Sozio and Simone Camerlengo, with a similar ethical authenticity substance, show the two necessary and fundamental approaches to restoring a sense and a poetic horizon to contemporary art: Camerlengo recovers the poetic ‘root’ of gesture and instant, critically and ironically deconstructing all visual, spatial and conceptual rhetoric. Sozio tackles a critical, analytical and intimate reconstruction of the image to reveal its powerful memorial, metaphorical and poetic consistency.