Fabrizio Prevedello | Fuori Porta (group show)

Centro Espositivo Villa Pacchiani di Santa Croce sull’Arno

z2o Sara Zanin is pleased to announce Fabrizio Prevedello's participation in the group show Fuori Porta, Saturday, June 10 at 5 p.m. at the Villa Pacchiani Exhibition Center in Santa Croce sull'Arno, an initiative of the City of Santa Croce sull'Arno curated by Ilaria Mariotti with Caterina Fondelli and Alessandra Ioalè.

The exhibition is produced with the collaboration of Crédit Agricole Italia.


"Fuori porta" is a term that designates everything that is outside the city gate and evokes trips to the countryside or otherwise outside the built-up area and overlaps with the concept of suburbia as a marginal zone of an area and, more specifically, of an urban agglomeration.
Santa Croce sull'Arno is a manufacturing center characterized by a strong industrialization that has, over time, designed urban planning, updated the social structure, and revised the relationship between the built-up area and its surroundings with a green and naturalistic vocation, hills and woods. Fuori porta is an exhibition involving eight artists-Oliviero Fiorenzi, Beatrice Gelmetti, Nicola Ghirardelli, Matteo Nuti, Francesco Pacelli, Phillippa Peckham, Fabrizio Prevedello, and Caterina Sbrana. Their research declines in different ways the concepts of landscape and of the way, for each different, of observing and exploring it. A landscape sometimes geographically close to that to which Santa Croce sull'Arno refers, sometimes far away. Researches that start from a naturalistic datum to transport it to an inner and existential dimension.

Those of Oliviero Fiorenzi, Beatrice Gelmetti, Nicola Ghiradelli and Francesco Pacelli are testimonies of a project that takes place a few kilometers from Santa Croce sull'Arno. Caterina Fondelli conceived C.F. Contemporary Fire, a contemporary art program, including exhibitions and artist residencies, founded about a year ago and, not surprisingly, located in her own family home in the town of Cerreto Guidi (FI). The power of a place, its characteristics, its landscape and the community that inhabits it: these are the central points of the project. Immersed in a large garden, peculiar for its extension, but especially for its richness in visual diversity, the context of this independent space becomes the protagonist, revealing a silent and also essential power. Indeed, this environment turns out to be capable of permeating the researches and identities of those who have dedicated moments of observation to it, and who have identified in it cues for an immersive meditation on their own works and on the continuation of the investigations conducted so far. Caterina Fondelli proposes a selection of four artists whose research, following the residency, shows that they carry in them the echo of that period of stay in that very peculiar place. In thinking of proposing this selection within Villa Pacchiani, the intention is manifested to carry out an action of trespassing between different contexts, transporting the suggestions and internalizations that occurred in a rural setting, external and deeply marked by the presence of the elements, within an institutional exhibition venue and with its own programming marked by a close and long-lasting bond with the territory.

The research of Oliviero Fiorenzi (Osimo, 1992, lives and works between Osimo and Milan) focuses on the unpredictability of spaces and experiments with the work as a game, a construction of experience and an inscription of meaning. The artist presents a cycle of works through which he has experimented with techniques for making kites, thought of as subjects and states of mind, documenting their flight. Each kite corresponds to a landscape, to a sky.
In the paintings of Beatrice Gelmetti (Verona, 1991, lives and works in Mestre) the elements of different perspective planes - one linked to a landscape view the other to an abstract reality - dialogue to build narratives about places near and far, real or imaginary. In his landscapes trees, large brushstrokes and gestures arise from the same ground, and the swishing of his arms and the sedimentations of color castings in water or oil are subjects of an almost contemplative study.
In the sculpture of Nicola Ghirardelli (Como, 1994, lives and works between Milan and Tuscany) artifacts and natural objects become matrices for reorganizing existing images and forms. The reconfiguration, which is the result of metamorphosis and recomposition, occurs through fusion and reconnection, and the result is constantly poised between chaotic excess and harmonious order, between violence and new balance.

Francesco Pacelli (Perugia, 1988, lives and works in Milan) is present in the exhibition with sculptures that are concrete and magical at the same time manifesting the artist's research on the relationship of parallelism and interconnection between nature and artifice and between magic and technique. Pacelli relates the rationalist approach to the sphere of the unattainable, of that which can be intuited through one's personal and relativistic subjectivity but cannot be demonstrated according to scientific method.

Matteo Nuti  (1979, Bientina where he lives and works) brings back to the center of his own pictorial research, the three-dimensional experience of the body of the painting, conceiving it as the landscape-environment of the pictorial subject on the surface. Nuti goes so far as to compromise its usual fruition in order to stimulate, instead, a new plastic experience through experimentation with different liguistic-visual modes that deconstruct the stereotype of the landscape genre but at the same time enrich and revitalize its tradition.

In the body of works by Phillippa Peckham (Iserlohn 1957, lives and works in Fosdinovo) presented in the exhibition (woodcuts and monotypes), the garden - typically English, seemingly haphazard and random but weighed in the alternation of blooms and the coexistence of local and more exotic plants - that surrounds her home and studio in the hills near Sarzana, the neighboring fields are configured as priority subjects explored through the practice of walking and observing.

Fabrizio Prevedello (Padua, 1972, lives and works in Versilia) traverses the landscape by capturing graphic signs and natural phenomena. His sculptures, made with materials of both industrial production and natural origin, are a continuous evocation of places, mainly the mountains, traversed and inhabited by man.
Brutalist cultural references with regard to forms and materials, reference to great twentieth-century sculpture, a point of view that places us in a time and space but also the continuous fascination with what happens to be found (slates, stones) also inform Prevedello's work in a hybrid and surprising accumulation of images and signs.
Caterina Sbrana's research is an investigation poised between primordial materials, traditional techniques and a contemporary vision contaminated by technology. The collection of materials, traces, residues, and textures, and the relationship with the landscape are at the center of her work, which makes use of different media: drawing, painting, and ceramics. Poppies become a tracing tool for large maps, soils, coals, and vegetables are the material for painting landscapes and inspired by digital visions. In parallel, in recent years he has also devoted himself to design and making art objects.

 
INFO
Fuori Porta
curated by  Ilaria Mariotti with Caterina Fondelli and Alessandra Ioalè
opening Saturday June 10, 2023, h. 5pm
Centro di Attività Espressive Villa Pacchiani, Piazza Pier Paolo Pasolini, Santa Croce sull’Arno (PI)
June 10 > July 30, 2023

organized  in collaboration with  Crédit Agricole Italia

opening hours: from Friday to Sunday, h. 5-8pm. 

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