Osart Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in the 2024 edition of Panorama ITALICS in Monferrato with works by Vincenzo Agnetti.
Over 60 artists, from great names who have made the history of international art to established and young emerging artists from Italy and abroad, with works ranging from painting to performance, from sculpture to video art to installation, alongside to great antique masterpieces. Panorama Monferrato, fourth edition of the widespread exhibition created by ITALICS, an institutional network that brings together over 70 galleries of ancient, modern and contemporary art and which from 2021, on an annual basis, connects architecture, art, and landscape with the territory and its communities. From 4 to 8 September, it offers a cross-section of the History of Art from the II century to the present day. The exhibition curated by Carlo Falciani is inspired by the principles of La civil conversazion, a work written by Stefano Guazzo (born 1530 in Casale Monferrato) and published in 1574, and spreads between vineyards, castles and parish churches, like a staged journey through the villages of Camagna, Vignale, Montemagno and Castagnole, building a new story that brings together ancient, modern and contemporary, discovering, once again, an extraordinary corner of Italy.
Panorama Monferrato is a slow journey, a metaphor for the path of meditation. Just as Guazzo, through the characters of his story, has shown how a community could live only if capable of building a civil conversation, resolving conflicts through dialogue, the center of the ethical development of man and society, likewise the contemporary visitor of Panorama undertakes a journey of reflection starting from daily contrasts to reach a level of spirituality, even secular, favored by art.
Like chapters of a single story, in each location, through the works of the artists involved, a theme transversal to the eras articulates, which is necessary for completing the journey. In Camagna the theme Work and roots delves into the concept of work as the root of gestures and sacrifice, but also an expression of the territory. These works focus on the double soul, agricultural and industrial, of many places which, over time, like Monferrato, have undergone radical transformations. In Vignale the theme Portrait and identity sees in this type of work a way of expressing and crystallizing in History the identity of a person or a community. In Montemagno the theme Transience and death tells how, since the Renaissance, the awareness of death has been a constant presence in the representation of initiatory journeys. Finally, in Castagnole, the theme of Sacredness of art enhances the possibility of estrangement from everyday life in favor of contemplation.
Panorama Monferrato
4 - 8 September 2024
A project by ITALICS
Curated by Carlo Falciani
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