{"id":51069,"date":"2017-07-26T19:20:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T17:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2017\/07\/l-arte-protagonista-all-iic-con-2\/"},"modified":"2017-07-26T19:20:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T17:20:35","slug":"l-arte-protagonista-all-iic-con-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2017\/07\/l-arte-protagonista-all-iic-con-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Giuffrida will be on show at the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Giuffrida, a painter who was born near New York City, raised in Washington and now living and working in California, at Vallejo, said of his artistic experience: &#8220;During the course of my 45-year-journey as a painter, I have had the opportunity to travel and see many works of art &#8211; some famous and some less known. I have stored them all in my mind. Unexpectedly, they find a way to manifest themselves when I paint. Seldom do I approach a blank canvas with a specific image or landscape in mind. It is through the process of allowing my subconscious to speak, supported by my personal technique, that I create a work that reveals what I am searching for.&#8221;<br \/>Mr. Giuffrida is an abstract expressionist from the Bay Area, whose paintings draw inspiration from masters of the late Italian Renaissance. &#8220;<em>I always have music playing when I am painting. My choice of music is based on mood, genre, but above all, on energy. I can work listening to Ornette Coleman, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Mississippi Delta Blues, Giuseppe Logan, opera or contemporary classical pieces.&#8221; <\/em><i><br \/><\/i><em>The Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco is getting ready to host <\/em><em>&#8216;Spirits Known and Unknown,&#8217; <\/em><em>an exhibition of\u00a0Giuffrida&#8217;s works. It will remain open to the public from 3\u00a0 August to 7 September, 2017. The exhibition will showcase the artist&#8217;s latest paintings. On August 18 the Institute will hold a conversation with the artist.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Giuffrida, a painter who was born near New York City, raised in Washington and now living and working in California, at Vallejo, said of his artistic experience: &#8220;During the course of my 45-year-journey as a painter, I have had the opportunity to travel and see many works of art &#8211; some famous and some [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-51069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51069","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}