Diagonal-Symphonie

Personal exhibitions of Gino Baffo, “Lights in Darkness” (curated by Robert Phillips), Gianfranco D’Andrea, “Mute Poetry” (curated by Gaia Conti), Alain Giustiniani, “Venezia between dream and  realty” (curated by Brigitte Giustiniani), Enzo Montagna, “Red-gold” (curated by di Francesca Rizzo), Maurizio Montesoro, “Less is More” and Paolo Vannuccini, “ANITYA. The invisible wall” (curated by Gaia Conti).
Diagonal-Symphonie is a 1924 German film directed by Viking Eggeling – a paean to the expressive power of shapes, the beauty of recurring cycles and the strength of the transformation process represented by a slanted silhouette dancing on the screen that continuously generates new figures, disappears and is reborn.
Our “diagonal symphony” is a looser succession of artistic experiences that contemplate the same themes: shape, the passage of time and memories, representation and simplification.
Without having to follow any particular sequence from one room to the next, spectators will be able to listen to the exchange between works by Gianfranco D’Andrea - who poetically tells of landscapes and individual stories that are part of a broader narration – and works by Alain Giustiniani that express “his” Venice – a transcription of an emotion pervaded with melancholy or poetry.
Or you can imagine subtle elected affinities between the research of Gino Baffo - who portrays a Venice of voices, words and people who leave nothing more than shadows in the fog and a few objects floating on the water – and the paintings by Maurizio Montesoro which do not describe a world per se but deliberately evoke a world through the process of emptying, removing and subtracting.
You can also manoeuvre your way through a meditation on the impermanence, circular motion and rebirth of a past present by Paolo Vannuccini to end up amongst the warm and rousing compositions, stories of life, people and objects that bring memories with them created by Enzo Montagna.

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