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Abstractionism in Rome: an aesthetic tour in Villa Medici

Posted in Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - October 19th, 2010

Till January 2nd 2011 an exhibition called “Heaviness and Grace” will take place at the Fine Arts French Academy “Villa Medici” in Rome. The curator of the exhibition and the director of the Fine Arts Academy Eric de Chassey wants to present through five international artists artworks some interpretative and creative truths on abstractionism.

The exhibition at “Villa Medici” give to the public what Simon Weil would say about Marthe Wèry, Callum Innes, Georges Tony Stoll, Emmanuel Van der Meulen and Emanuele Becheri: the concept of “rising lowering”; the concept through which representing something means let it unrepresented; at last the deeper idea of abstractionism. All the artworks involved in “Heaviness and Grace” seems to say:” we have a shape just because of our shapeless. (more…)

Villa Medici in Rome makes Art of an art exhibition

Posted in Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - August 24th, 2010

Villa Medici, the French School of Fine Art in Rome, presents an exhibition, lasting till the end of September, dedicated to the visitor experience’s enrichment: he will be driven along a tour made of heterogeneous artworks by Ellsworth Kelly and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Kelly, still living, took care about the exhibition management of his unpublished artworks and about the ones of the ex school headmaster Ingres, with the help of Éric de Chassey, the today school headmaster. The exhibition wants to show the tension that ties together a figurative and pedantic production with an abstract one. Kelli’s and Chassey’s original idea was to put the viewer in the critical point of the visual contemplation, where similarities and superimpositions die to let the universal true outcropping as a truth feeling. The viewer along the Villa Medici’s tour will rebound from an artwork to another without comprehension. Reason’s faculty will be astonished between Ingres and Kelly; the heart will be satisfy by his artistic perception. (more…)