Marco Pio Mucci, Caterina De Nicola, Valerio Nicolai: Expectations
The new project of the space A SUD in Pescara, focuses on the dialogue between artists belonging to the same generation:
Caterina De Nicola, Marco Pio Mucci and Valerio Nicolai. The title, besides expressing the obvious expectation with respect to the possible goals of these young authors, keeps in suspension the underlying sense of an ambiguous statement.
Expectations in fact can be traced to the anxieties of a historical moment that finds its foundation in the fear of the relationship between us and the other. On the basis of a generational characterization that binds them and spills over differently – with aesthetic and symbolic elements – into their artistic production, these three personalities represent criticalities and potentialities of an ‘era characterized by rapid changes.
An exhibition intended as a founding act of a futuristic present in which everything we know can change, as in Edward
Bellamy’s novel Looking Backword, in which the protagonist, afflicted with insomnia, is cured by hypnosis, sleeping for 113 years and waking up in a dystopian reality.
In this sense Caterina De Nicola travels through the heterogeneity of forms and disciplines, starting from painting and arriving at music, passing through sculpture, installation, photography and performance: these converge in her works through what she herself calls a mash-up – a purely musical term – which in this case means a coexistence of objects, materials, phrases and drawings to create, in the end, a single “sound” or “object.”
Marco Pio Mucci between painting and avant-garde digressions, deploys a monochrome figuration, which contributes to the construction of an autobiographical epic. In his works what appears to be a personal narrative is in truth often cadenced by certain narratives matured in the ‘sphere of shared experiences. His drawings and oil paintings, made especially for this exhibition, bring to mind the ‘wild materials’ described by Pier Vittorio Tondelli, exegete of the youth and underground culture of the 1980s.
Valerio Nicolai between figuration and abstraction, articulates his visionary language by investigating the relationship between artwork and reality, in which he himself covers the role of intermediary. His paintings create an ambiguous space, with different registers, and find inspiration from readings of novels, mainly classical ones, which he defines as motionless and elusive therefore always capable of producing new meanings in the mind of the reader.
The exhibition also benefits from the contribution of a fourth artist, Marco Pace, who is the author not only of the invitation design but also of the exhibition catalog, which will be presented during the opening period of the exhibition in the form of a science fiction comic book in which the three authors will be the protagonists of a dystopian future.
The exhibition, which will open on Oct. 8 starting at 6 p.m., will be open until Jan. 7, 2023 by appointment.
Marco Pio Mucci, Caterina De Nicola, Valerio Nicolai: Expectations
The new project of the space A SUD in Pescara, focuses on the dialogue between artists belonging to the same generation:
Caterina De Nicola, Marco Pio Mucci and Valerio Nicolai. The title, besides expressing the obvious expectation with respect to the possible goals of these young authors, keeps in suspension the underlying sense of an ambiguous statement.
Expectations in fact can be traced to the anxieties of a historical moment that finds its foundation in the fear of the relationship between us and the other. On the basis of a generational characterization that binds them and spills over differently – with aesthetic and symbolic elements – into their artistic production, these three personalities represent criticalities and potentialities of an ‘era characterized by rapid changes.
An exhibition intended as a founding act of a futuristic present in which everything we know can change, as in Edward
Bellamy’s novel Looking Backword, in which the protagonist, afflicted with insomnia, is cured by hypnosis, sleeping for 113 years and waking up in a dystopian reality.
In this sense Caterina De Nicola travels through the heterogeneity of forms and disciplines, starting from painting and arriving at music, passing through sculpture, installation, photography and performance: these converge in her works through what she herself calls a mash-up – a purely musical term – which in this case means a coexistence of objects, materials, phrases and drawings to create, in the end, a single “sound” or “object.”
Marco Pio Mucci between painting and avant-garde digressions, deploys a monochrome figuration, which contributes to the construction of an autobiographical epic. In his works what appears to be a personal narrative is in truth often cadenced by certain narratives matured in the ‘sphere of shared experiences. His drawings and oil paintings, made especially for this exhibition, bring to mind the ‘wild materials’ described by Pier Vittorio Tondelli, exegete of the youth and underground culture of the 1980s.
Valerio Nicolai between figuration and abstraction, articulates his visionary language by investigating the relationship between artwork and reality, in which he himself covers the role of intermediary. His paintings create an ambiguous space, with different registers, and find inspiration from readings of novels, mainly classical ones, which he defines as motionless and elusive therefore always capable of producing new meanings in the mind of the reader.
The exhibition also benefits from the contribution of a fourth artist, Marco Pace, who is the author not only of the invitation design but also of the exhibition catalog, which will be presented during the opening period of the exhibition in the form of a science fiction comic book in which the three authors will be the protagonists of a dystopian future.
The exhibition, which will open on Oct. 8 starting at 6 p.m., will be open until Jan. 7, 2023 by appointment.
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