{"id":125857,"date":"2024-10-28T16:13:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T15:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2024\/10\/toronto-la-superficie-introvabile\/"},"modified":"2024-10-28T17:29:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T16:29:35","slug":"toronto-la-superficie-introvabile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/diplomazia-culturale\/2024\/10\/toronto-la-superficie-introvabile\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto \u2013 The Unfindable Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In collaboration with Villa Charities and with the support of Heritage Calabria, the <strong>Consulate General of Italy in Toronto<\/strong> and the <strong>Italian Cultural Institute<\/strong> are proud to present the exhibition \u2018<strong>La Superficie Introvabile | The Unfindable Surface<\/strong>.<strong>\u2019<\/strong> Featuring the works of two Italian artists, Anna<strong> Romanello<\/strong> and <strong>Mario Martinelli<\/strong>, this exhibition is intended to celebrate the <strong>2024 Contemporary Art Day<\/strong> in Toronto. Curated by <strong>Flavio<\/strong> <strong>Belli<\/strong>, the exhibition was inaugurated on 17 October and will be open to the public <strong>until 13 November<\/strong> at the Columbus Centre\u2019s Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery in Toronto. It features <strong>two artists<\/strong> from <strong>two different regions of Italy<\/strong>, highlighting <strong>distinct<\/strong> but <strong>complementary<\/strong> <strong>perspectives<\/strong> of the diverse <strong>Italian art scene<\/strong>, from the <strong>ancient<\/strong> to the<strong> hyper-modern<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Anna <strong>Romanello<\/strong> brings her <strong>southern Italian roots<\/strong> to the fore, combining the vibrant colours, textures and light of the Mediterranean with abstract interpretations of memory and place. Her artistic language is deeply influenced by <strong>Italo Calvino<\/strong>\u2019s novel <strong>\u2018Invisible Cities<\/strong>.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Mario <strong>Martinelli<\/strong>, from Veneto, offers a stark contrast to Romanello\u2019s southern landscapes with his <strong>sculptures and installations<\/strong>, which shift between <strong>light, shadow and form<\/strong>, looking more towards <strong>northern atmospheres<\/strong>. His<strong> reproduction of Michelangelo\u2019s David<\/strong> is a <strong>tribute to the Florentine master<\/strong>, whereby Martinelli reinterprets the human form using wire mesh, creating intricate plays of light and shadow that evoke the <strong>chiaroscuro technique<\/strong> used by Renaissance artists.<\/p>\n<p>Curator Flavio <strong>Belli<\/strong>\u2019s aim is to bring <strong>these two artists<\/strong> <strong>together <\/strong>in a single exhibition space to suggest and explore the concept of the <strong>\u2018unfindable surface<\/strong>\u2019 \u2013 a <strong>metaphor<\/strong> for the <strong>complexity of Italian identity and its <\/strong>ever-changing <strong>contemporary reality<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In collaboration with Villa Charities and with the support of Heritage Calabria, the Consulate General of Italy in Toronto and the Italian Cultural Institute are proud to present the exhibition \u2018La Superficie Introvabile | The Unfindable Surface.\u2019 Featuring the works of two Italian artists, Anna Romanello and Mario Martinelli, this exhibition is intended to celebrate [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":125843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[397,32,309],"class_list":["post-125857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomazia-culturale","tag-america-settentrionale","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-giornata-del-contemporaneo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125858,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125857\/revisions\/125858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}