Wednesday July 10 at 9 pm
LIUPIROGI E PAGIOPA Terrace
presentation of the book by Massimo Pulini
Mal'occhio, CartaCanta Editore, 2018
with the participation of:
Massimo Pulini (artist and art historian art)
Rosita Copioli (writer and historian of literature)
Free entrance with association card
LIUPIROGI E PAGIOPA Terrace
presentation of the book by Massimo Pulini
Mal'occhio, CartaCanta Editore, 2018
with the participation of:
Massimo Pulini (artist and art historian art)
Rosita Copioli (writer and historian of literature)
Free entrance with association card
The BookThe right pupil, reduced to a slit anchored to the root of the nose, separates it from the others, cross-eyed, disjointed. Two views, two identities, a great life. Guercino, the artist, who in the early decades of the seventeenth century was able to coagulate the whole of human senses on the surface of a painting. The man who investigated love and passions, torment and ecstasy; the dramatic relationship with Lavinia, his beloved and muse; the infighting of power and the society of his time, which depicted the most miserable but profoundly true aspects. His pictorial manners were also double: the first was impetuous and irregular, inspired by the intense feeling and lack of it; the second a more calm and spiritual style, stripped of all exuberance towards a mystical liturgy. This book follows the paths that led to the transfiguration of Giovan Francesco Barbieri known as Guercino. 1629 marks the ford, when the young Diego Velázquez made the mysterious visit to that great painter holed up in Cento: year of plague and conversions, of wars, mourning and rebirths.
The AuthorMassimo Pulini, is a multifaceted figure of artist and researcher, writer and teacher. Chairman of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, he has been involved in civil and social roles for several years. He has been the promoter of the Design Biennial since its birth and of various cultural exhibitions in the Rimini area. He has published numerous essays on Italian art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and curated museum exhibitions including the monographs by Guercino (Cento 2001, Milan and Rome 2003-2004, London 2005). To him we owe the catalogs reasoned for the works of Andrea Lilio (Federico Motta, 2003) and Ginevra Cantofoli (Editrice Compositori, 2006). For the publishing house Medusa he has published four books, in the collection La coperta del tempo (2008) and the theatrical monologue Caravaggio, nero fumo (2010). In 2011, for the I Cantastorie series of CartaCanta, he published his first novel, Gli inestimabili, dedicated to a resounding and obscure art theft of a painting by Raphael and two by Piero della Francesca, which took place in Urbino in 1975.
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