Franco Marzilli | La serenità della luce

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Thursday, October 27th, as part of the seventh edition of Rome Art Week, the Edarcom Europa gallery opens the exhibition "La serenità della luce" by Franco Marzilli, curated by Francesco Ciaffi and Alice Crisponi.

Franco Marzilli has often been called an innovative artist but firmly anchored in traditional media. In fact, from his painting transpires a wise use of the pictorial and compositional techniques of the past, renewed by a transversal vision, different from any pre-existing visual canon.

The female figures, the compositions of flowers and fruits, the green countryside of his Sabina are investigated with respect to a metaphysics sui generis, strongly imbued with emotion. No underlying social criticism, no existential drama alluded, only the desire to portray the phenomenal reality that lies ahead with «a slight figurative rarefaction». The subject loses individual characteristics, not at the expense of a -however guaranteed- recognizability. The sinuosity of a resting dancer and her interaction with the surrounding space is idealized and investigated as a fruit composition. However, it does not indulge in the mere externality of the portrayed subject, nor does it reduce it to a virtuoso pictorial exercise: the full-bodied materiality (obtained from the skilful manual dosage of earths and oils spread on the prepared plaster support) and the warm palette of colours, they become carriers of an intimate lyrical transport and a highly emotional synthesis that the artist implements on perception.

The important nucleus of about 30 works, representative of the production of the nineties and early 2000s, will be exhibited in the gallery until November 19th.

INFORMATION

EXHIBITION: Franco Marzilli | La serenità della luce

DURATION: October 27th - November 19th

ADDRESS: Via Macedonia 12, Rome (San Giovanni – Appio Latino)

EXHIBITION OPENING: October 27th, 5:30 p.m.

EXHIBITION ENTRANCE: free entrance in compliance with current safety and hygien regulations

FOR FURTHER INFORMATIONS: 06.7802620 – www.edarcom.it