Remembering Michele Ladogana
It is from the end of the 60s that the Michelangelo Gallery begins its journey in the cultural activities of Trani. At that time a courageous art lover, an enthusiast, laid the foundations for what today is a cultural and artistic heritage of great value. His name was Michele Ladogana. It is to him that this event is dedicated, organized by his family and his two friends as well as creatives, artists on display: Mario Colonna and Michele Paloscia.
In our century the mass media, advertising and economics applied to art are downgrading the role and value of painting. Mario Colonna and Michele Paloscia, on the contrary, enhance its emotional and aesthetic qualities, trying to reconcile the relationship between Man and Nature, between chromatic virtuosity and maritime views. Hence the theme of the sea presented today in the Pelagus exhibition: a sense of freedom, strength, calm, beauty, infinite sensations for infinite interpretations.
The objective of the event is therefore to bring the visitor closer to the true sense of art, to that desire for the sublime that only naturalistic mimesis can give. Artists such as Colonna and Paloscia help us to recognize and receive that love for art that Michele Ladogana had and that he passed on to his family.
Artists
- Michele Livio Paloscia
- Mario Colonna
Works on display
The viewer who observes Renzo Galardini's painting enters a world where technical skill and imagination merge in a surreal deception. His paintings tell of allegories, children's games, horses, turtles, puppets and garlands. With them the artist expresses his own social and moral values, making his painting cultured and full of meanings. The essence of reality is narrated in fairytale settings, spaces in which the artist is a puppeteer who tightens his own painting with thin threads. His figures are dead textiles and paper, of great refinement and elegance.
Galardini is an undisputed protagonist in the Italian and European art scene. His chiaroscuro, drawing, dedication to creation are components that refer to distant times, in which engraving was considered a high expression of artistic work.
The Michelangelo art gallery offers a selection of his most intense and meaningful paintings, in which the viewer gets lost and dreams.
Artists
The modern artistic world with its fairs, biennials, exhibitions, seems to have felt a great and dramatic absence for some years. These events, despite their diversity, tend to stage the euthanasia of painting treated as a residual genre or symbol of a past to be erased.
The enthusiasm and interest I felt when I met Jara Marzulli's works are the confirmation that painting can still excite. Jara's paintings lead to the tradition of our art history: the knowledge of anatomy, color, light, the never banal theme, lead to the constant story of an inner dialogue. The research dedicated to the portrait and the nude is the mirror of his talent and the defense, among the new generations of artists, of the value of painting as a language anchored to the tradition of figuration.
The constant game between truth and fiction arrives in the sensual portraits of models in which the body flaunts sex but where the center of the painting is elsewhere in an almost hidden detail: a hand, an eye, a flower. His paintings give the feeling that the truth of perception is questioned, the ambiguity of the gaze almost always prevails. When you meet Jara and talk to her, one is almost convinced that she has embarked on a hand-to-hand with painting: precise, painful, restless but also suave and elegiac, a constant comparison between perception and reality where the canons of classical beauty are not concerned. the subject is a man or a woman, tall or short, thin or fat.
The difficulties of studying the body imposes a strict discipline on her, a constant and daily commitment that finds its roots in the exercise of drawing, the analysis of the sign is the fundamental basis for building one's own pictorial vocabulary. The aesthetics of the body seem to be expressed in its usual colors but in reality it is constituted by the explosion of the whole pictorial palette: being able to represent it is an enormous challenge, a game that we do not finish.
Between ethics and aesthetics
Fifty years of career in the branch of painting for Fulvio Del Vecchio, a painter from Trani well known in the South. For the occasion, our friend and painter decided to celebrate with an exhibition at the Michelangelo gallery. The one-man show, which contains the most significant works of the artist from Trani, revisits and re-proposes to the public the dear subjects often and willingly appeared in his representations: landscapes, architectural remains, corners of Trani, the pilgrim wayfarer, nudes and seascapes.
Ethics in the message of comfort for man in the difficulties of life: a man always saved by nature who in Fulvio is certainly benign, saved by the Faith and the maternal spirit of the woman. The aesthetic is instead represented by bright or shaded colors and soft contours.
Artists
Palma il Giovane, Giaquinto, De Nittis and Cifariello
Starting from November 27th and until December 15th, the works of excellent painters will be exhibited at the 'Centro d'Arte Michelangiolo': Palma il Giovane, Giaquinto, De Nittis and Cifariello. Great names of classical art for a unique event in the Apulian territory, framed in the oldest gallery in the city, against the backdrop of the Cathedral and the historic center of Trani.
The aim of the exhibition is to preserve art not only as a curiosity but as a product of civilization that lasts over time.
The artistic research is very fervent, as well as the spirit, the thought and the culture are all committed so that the Light of the Art conquers the darkness of this period. It is with these ideals that the exhibition 'Artistic Excellence' was born, turning our gaze to the past, to the greats of classical art, recovering forgotten traditions but which constitute the foundations for the present.
PLOTS by Raffaele Ferrero
OPENING 9 July at 19:30
Those who live in Puglia love the lights and the enchanted atmospheres of summer nights. He knows the suggestions of certain twilights that manifest incredible shades of purple and blue in reds. Those who live in Puglia remember the value of the blue of the sky, green and bright yellow.
Raffaele Ferrero paints the suggestions of these colors in his textures and graphic traces that outline his expressive line and translate his chromatic sense as well as his spatial vision. It is a painting lived in the geometric game between fantasy and rationality, through a never accidental medium, veiled at the origin but controlled in the entire composition.
Ferrero lives his art as a physical as well as a pictorial and cultural experience; the combination of the emotional and creative world is complete and total. His paintings become real and vibrant life. The professor. Mongelli, during the presentation of one of his exhibitions, perfectly expressed this concept: art as a place of liberation, exposure and transformation helps us to live by letting us see the modifications of reality. Transformations, therefore, which if referred to the artist Ferrero are expressed in the acclaimed sphere of geometric abstractionism.
Starting from July 9th and until July 24th, Raffaele Ferrero will exhibit his geometric paintings at the Michelangiolo Art Center located in Trani in via Giovanni Bovio 186 totally free with the following times:
Mon-Fri: 17.30-20.30
Sat-Sun: 10.30-12.30 17.30-20.30
Contemporary art exhibition
The Nativity is a moment that has changed the history of humanity, marking religious but also artistic trends. The birth of Christ is certainly one of the most represented themes in the history of art: painters and artists of all kinds have succeeded over the centuries representing the Holy Family in furnishings, shovels, canvases. Giotto, Botticelli, Caravaggio are just some of the greats who have provided their own interpretation of this magical moment.From 2 to 18 January we offer the works of local artists, who reinterpret the moment when Christ becomes the light that illuminates our future.
They exhibit:
Carlo AZZELLA
Luigi BASILE
Paolo DESARIO
Antonio GIANNINI
Antonio LAURELLI
Ferruccio MAGARAGGIA
Giuseppe MARINOSCI
Massimo NARDI
Pino NAVEDORO
Giuseppe RICCARDI
Angela SANZARI
Domenico SCARONGELLA
Nicola TULLO
Alfredo VERDELOCCO
Balla, Castellani, Lewitt e tanti altri
Opere di:
BALLA, LICHTENSTEIN, WARHOL, LEWITT, CHRISTO, LEVERETT, BEUYS, CASTELLANI, HALLEY, NAUMAN E FERRERO.
Dal 3 al 30 Dicembre 2022 – PROROGATA fino al 6 Gennaio
Per sua natura l’arte contemporanea suscita curiosità e fascino nello spettatore nonostante la sua non facile comprensione. Il suo linguaggio è forte, potente, straripante e pieno di energia spesso difficile da catalogare, definire e circoscrivere data la sua natura evolutiva e trasformista che insegue velocemente la vita d’oggi. Attraverso suggerimenti di interpretazione il Centro d’arte Michelangiolo inaugura questa mostra dove esporremo opere di Lewitt, Balla, Lichtenstein, Warhol e tanti altri. Proveremo a fornire una chiave di lettura nella foresta di segni, immagini , oggetti e parole in cui l’arte contemporanea vive e si tramuta. Il principale intento è allontanare lo spettatore dalla dimensione quotidiana e farlo immergere in una realtà diversa dove provare emozioni inaspettate. Con questa esposizione si vuol dare ai visitatori un punto di vista differente ma che permetta di mettere a fuoco le proprie sensazioni e passioni.
La mostra si terrà presso il Centro d’arte Michelangiolo sito a Trani in via Giovanni Bovio 186 in forma totalmente gratuita con i seguenti orari:
Mon-Fri: 17.30-20.30
Sat-Sun: 10.30-12.30 17.30-20.30
Info & Contatti:
via Giovanni Bovio, 186 – Trani
tel: 340 1541925
cdartemichelangiolo@gmail.com
Occhio sinistro – fotografie di Marco Messa
Gli occhi
Il destro s’ illumina dietro l’obiettivo fotografico.
Il sinistro si chiude, comincia un viaggio fatto di suoni, profumi, sensazioni e ricordi, percorre strade oniriche dove la natura e le cose non hanno bisogno di nomi per esistere. La forzata utilità dell’ umano svanisce per lasciare posto allo
stupore sopito nelle nostre ancestrali emozioni.
Mostra d’arte fotografica che espone gli scatti di Marco Messa.
Prefazione di Alessia Venditti.