Carla Accardi, Franco Angeli, Mirella Bentivoglio, Francesca Duscià, Tano Festa, Giosetta Fioroni, Leoncillo, Elica Sartogo, and Giulio Turcato—artists distant in generation and interests, masters of the twentieth century and contemporary authors—are brought together in the exhibition under the sign of celestial observation. Looking at the sky in order to imagine the future, to measure time, to tell a story, through wonder and, above all, to translate it into movement, surfaces, and forms.
In artistic research, the formal evocation of the cosmos and its elements reappears across different contexts and poetics, becoming at times a purely stylistic element, at others a field of personal investigation, or a universal symbol immediately legible. In Carla Accardi’s work, this takes the form of a completely abstract acceleration, while for Mirella Bentivoglio the choice is precise: “I use the shape of the egg as my constant sign, an emblem of life, a cosmic symbol of perpetuity and origin.”
And while for Tano Festa the sky often appears as solid as one of his pieces of furniture, or is playfully evoked in the Coriandoli series, for Giulio Turcato it becomes a reflection on the imagery of a decade marked by the idea of a joyful conquest of space. His surfaces are made of foam rubber because, as the artist once said, “its rough crust is full of new events and wonder.” Finally, the contemporary artists Elica Sartogo and Francesca Duscià: for Elica, “Golden, harmonic, and melodic signs draw the Cosmos in the enchantment of Eternity,” while for Duscià, the proximity to celestial phenomena in this latest series of paintings is mediated and reworked through a cinematic narrative so emblematic that it has entered our collective imagination.