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VENEZIA Riccardo Guarneri con Virgilio Guidi / January 18 - March 12 2025

GALLERIA MICHELA RIZZO is pleased to present Venezia, an exhibition that brings together Riccardo Guarneri and Virgilio Guidi, opening on Saturday, January 18th at 12:00. Between Silence and Light "In the midday hour, reality is immense; the light descends from the height of the sky and illuminates all things impartially; they then live in an extreme purity and clarity, responsible for their formal and coloristic aspects, yet embraced in a single, unique sigh." In this quote from Virgilio Guidi, dating back to 1964, lies the essence of his entire painting. The dialogue between Riccardo Guarneri and Virgilio Guidi thus reveals the midday demon of a parallel search that opens towards a total light, imbuing the painting with an illusory atmosphere—an expansive spatiality that unveils the trajectories of lived experience through the mark, for a quotidianity that is both still and dynamic at the same time. In the light-space of their work, the lyrical solutions are all contained within that 'indirect' gleam underlying the image, imbued with a serene, uniform clarity that reveals the absolute poetics of these two artists. Venezia presents a selection of works by Riccardo Guarneri – from the 1990s to the present – alongside some works by Virgilio Guidi from the period between 1947 and 1960, in dialogue with each other on the theme of space and light. Venezia, in its persistence of light, remains the restless muse of these two artists within a journey that severs the space between stone, water, and the enduring clarity of a sophisticated luminosity.

 

VENEZIA

Riccardo Guarneri with Virgilio Guidi

Curated by: Stefano Cecchetto


Opening: 18 January 2025 at 12:00

January 18 - March 12 2025

Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 18:00






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