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Venice.AnexhibitiontorediscoverLuigiPericle
Openedontheocasionofthe58th VeniceArtBiennale,theexhibition“LuigiPericle.Beyondthevisible”shedsnew light,afteraperiodofoblivion,onthe personalityofaversatileanderuditeartistwhowasamongtheprotagonistsofEuropeanpaintinginthesecondhalfofthe20th century.
From bothathematicandalinguisticpointofview thereisacleardivergencebetweentheconceptsof“visible”and“visionary”.It’sfrom thisparticulardiferencethat theexhibitionofLuigiPericle’sart(Basel1916-Ascona2001)getsundertheFondazioneQueriniStampaliainVenice.Startingfrom hiscontributiontothe“visible”form, thisexhibitionrevealsanduncoverstheartandlifeofanartistwhopreferedtoexplorethe“visionary”aspectsoftheworldtoitslimitsinordertofinditsdeepest esence.
THEHISTORYOFLUIGIPERICLE
C u ra te d b y C h ia ra G a t ti in c o l la b o ra tio n w ith L u c a B o c h ic c h io , M a rc o P a s i a n d M ic h e le T a v o la , s h e d s n e w lig h t o n th e fi g u re o f L u ig i P e ric le , o n e o f th e p ro ta g o n is ts o f Europeanpaintinginthesecondhalfofthe1900s.ThankstothecommitmentoftheArchivionamedafterhim,Periclewilbefindinghisplaceinthecontextofpost-warI arthistory,afteryearsofoblivion,again.
Duetohismultifacetedpersonalityasapainter,anilustrator,ascholarandanintelectualwhowasparticularlypasionateaboutOrientalphilosophyandesotericism,in theFiftiesPericleandhiswifeOrsolinaKlaingutidecidedtosetleinAscona.
IntheTwentiesthisSwistown-morepreciselythelocationofMonteMonesciawhosenameturnedinto“MonteVerità”lateron-hostedthecommunityofpacifists, anarchists,theosophists,poets,bohemians,anthroposophists,vegetariansandfeministswhichhadbeenfoundedbyIdaHofmannandHeinrichOedenkovenin1900.This backgroundrepresentedtheobject/subjectoftheexhibitioncuratedbyHaraldSzeemannin1978.
Asortoflocusamoenus(Latinfor"pleasantplace")wherePericlefoundshelterafterfleeingfrom thecultureofappearanceandfrom theartsystem,inordertoimmerse himselfintoanotherdimension,closertospiritualdynamicsandnature.
ARTWORKS
ThiseventheldintheCarloScarpaarea(FondazioneQueriniStampalia)describesPericle’slifeandcareerviaanexhibitionofhispaintingsoncanvas,hismasonites,the IndianInksonpaper,drawings,notesandpagesfrom adiary.Startingfrom “Maxthemarmot”(protagonistofthecomicstripinventedbyPericlehimself).
Theocurencedisplayshoroscopes,astrologicalchartsandabstractpaintingswhichseem todenyfigurativism.AlthoughPericle’spersonalstylegotitsinspirationfrom themesandcharacterswhichcamefrom thestudyofOccidentalandOrientalphilosophies,ritualsanddoctrines.
Itlookslikeanalchemicconiunctiooppositorum (coincidenceofopposites)whichexpresesitselfwithinandbeyondboththevisibleandvisionaryformsofart.
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