Nazzarena Poli Maramott, MEDEA PENSOSA (2023) mixed media on canvas 200x160 cm. Photo Carlo Favero
z2o Sara Zanin is pleased to announce the participation of Nazzarena Poli Maramotti in the group show Medea, curated in the Old Market of Ortigia by Demetrio Paparoni, and promoted by the Municipal Administration of Syracuse. Hosted in the historic spaces of the loggia of the Ancient Market of Syracuse, the exhibition will open on May 5, 2023, and will run until September 30, 2023.
The exhibition includes works created expressly by 17 artists on the theme of Medea, one of the most famous and controversial characters of Greek mythology. The exhibition testifies to how much the story of the sorceress, infanticidal in Euripides' narrative, still affects the imagination of our times. Through the unprecedented gaze of artists of our time from different geographical areas - from Northern Europe to China, from the Caucasus region to Southeast Asia, as well as Italy - the exhibition highlights the inseparable link between Syracuse and the ancient theater. Classical tragedy is thus revived in Syracuse through contemporary artistic expressions in the visual arts as well.
Artists: Margaux Bricler, Chiara Calore, Cian Dayrit, Helgi Thorgils Fridjónsson, Francesco De Grandi, Rusudan Khizanishvili, Sverre Malling, Rafael Megall, Ruben Pang, Daniel Pitin, Nazzarena Poli Maramotti, Vera Portatadino, Nicola Samorì, Natee Utarit, Ruprecht Von Kaufmann, Wang Guangyi, Yue Minjun.
Nazarena Poli Maramotti is inspired by the caption image of a painting from the workshop of Corrado Giaquinto (1752). In the eighteenth-century painting, the assassination has just taken place; a snake looms over the children's bodies which, due to a contamination between the Greek myth and Christian thought, is perceived as the devil who inspired the crime. The artist operates a sort of dissolution of the reference painting, making it become one with the nature in which it is immersed. By adding pictorial material to a clearer first draft, the artist subtracts the figurative property by translating it into an abstraction in which the theme of infanticide is treated as something unspeakable for the horror it arouses – but which nevertheless emerges thanks to the clear detail of the knife in the foreground.
INFO
Medea
Antico Teatro di Siracusa
Antico Teatro di Siracusa
Curated by Demetrio Paparoni
Opening; Friday May 5 | h. 6.30 pm-9pm
May 5 > September 30, 2023
Antico Mercato di Ortigia, Via Trento 2, 96100 - Siracusa (SR)
Opening hours: Monday-Sunday | h. 11 am-3pm/6pm-12 midnight
For information: https://aditusculture.com/esperienze/siracusa/mostre-eventi/medea
3 May 2023
