Franco Fortunato | Vagabondo

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Franco Fortunato's personal exhibition entitled "Vagabondo", curated by Francesco Ciaffi and Alice Crisponi, will be inaugurated on Thursday 19 September at 5.30 pm at the Edarcom Europa gallery in via Macedonia 12 in Rome.

Franco Fortunato presents over thirty paintings in which the great themes of his pictorial dictionary are revisited with the aim of tracing an itinerary capable of retracing over forty years of an exhibition career at a national and international level.

Alice Crisponi, in the text in the catalogue, observes that "His art gratifies us, although it does not provide an answer to all our questions, on the contrary, it sharpens our desire for adventure, but it does so by ferrying us to safe waters and clear skies, where the meaning of the world seems so simple and close, and where everything is blue like the sea but deep like the sky”.

The exhibition takes inspiration from the iconic character of the Wanderer who, as Francesco Ciaffi writes in the other text in the catalogue, "through this infinite journey between worlds and skies that look at each other and turn upside down, overturning patterns and rules that seem immovable, suggests a new way of perceiving reality”.

The exhibition, visible with free entry until 12 October, is included in the calendar of events for the Twentieth Contemporary Art Day, the major event promoted by AMACI - Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums and created with the support of the General Directorate of Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture and the collaboration of the General Directorate for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.