{"id":52144,"date":"2016-12-09T14:59:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T13:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2016\/12\/australia-giuseppe-modica-espone-2\/"},"modified":"2016-12-09T14:59:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T13:59:36","slug":"australia-giuseppe-modica-espone-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2016\/12\/australia-giuseppe-modica-espone-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia – Giuseppe Modica on show in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Giuseppe Modica,\u00a0first time in Australia, will\u00a0present Atelier di luce e di memoria (Light and Memory Atelier), <\/em>a solo exhibition .\u00a0Sasha Grishin,\u00a0art critic and professor emeritus at the\u00a0School of Literature,\u00a0Languages and Linguistics \u00a0of the Australian National University of Canberra, will present Giuseppe Modica’s work. Modica is one of the most representative artists in the Italian contemporary artscene. Some of his works are part\u00a0 of the Collezione Farnesina\u00a0of the Ministry\u00a0of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. For his Austrialian debut, Giuseppe Modica created a number\u00a0of works\u00a0focusing on the understanding of the\u00a0relations between light, memory, geometry, singularity. A research effort that he expressed through great technical skills. Modica’s artistic research may\u00a0be part of the historical continuity\u00a0of\u00a0great Italian and European painters, from Piero della Francesca and Antonella da Messina to Vermeer and Velasquez, Seraut and De Chirico. By investigating the present, his art combines\u00a0tradition and invention, a fil rouge running from the past through the present and towards the future: his\u00a0paintings\u00a0are shaped by\u00a0time, light and memory,\u00a0in a dimension that breaks with tradition to enter an extraniating and metaphysical suspension.<\/p>\n

Modica was born in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily in 1953. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Florence and currently lives in Rome where he directs the Chair of the Painting Course at the Fine Arts Academy. A solitary artist, Modica cannot be fit in given trends or\u00a0groups. He is a “metaphysically new” author combining tradition and innovation. Appreciated \u00a0by art historian and critics as\u00a0M. Fagiolo, V. Sgarbi, G. Giuffr\u00e8, C. Strinati, and literature experts as L. Sciascia, A. Tabucchi, G. Soavi, Modica held solo shows in Milan, Rome, Paris, Cologne, Bologna, Florence, Palermo . He also had\u00a0 retrospective shows hosted in institutions and museums (Aosta, Tour Fromage; Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti; Treviso, Casa dei Carraresi; Roma, Complesso del Vittoriano; Arezzo, Galleria Civica; Palermo, Loggiato di San Bartolomeo; Marsala, Galleria Civica; Roma, Palazzo di Venezia). Modica was called to exhibit\u00a0in\u00a0international events such as the\u00a08th\u00a0International Contemporary Art Biennial in Cairo; Rome’s 13th Quadriennale of\u00a0 Contemporary Art,\u00a0the\u00a06th Engraving Triennial, in Milan; Novecento Siciliano, in Minsk, Moscow, Barcelona and Palermo; Milano Arte Italiana 1968-2007, Palazzo Reale; the 54th Venice Biennale, Arsenal, Italian Pavilion, Bad Frankenhausen Panorama Museum.\u00a0Maurizio Fagiolo dell’Arco\u00a0<\/strong>likes to describe Modica’s art as follows:\u00a0“Modica’s paintings explore all that a\u00a0light source can offer. A Flemish light and a Dutch light, the light of Antonello and the luminosity of Piero della Francesca; Stomer’s dark tones of light and Vermeer’s light that veers to brightness. The light of the light of the light\u00a0.”<\/em>\u00a0<\/em> “What matters to Modica is\u00a0to evoke\u00a0and conjure a whole world through crystal-clear fragments of vision. He unsettles layers of\u00a0 thoughts and long-forgotten emotions or emotions which may have never been ours, but that he\u00a0made us believe\u00a0 they were.”<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giuseppe Modica,\u00a0first time in Australia, will\u00a0present Atelier di luce e di memoria (Light and Memory Atelier), a solo exhibition .\u00a0Sasha Grishin,\u00a0art critic and professor emeritus at the\u00a0School of Literature,\u00a0Languages and Linguistics \u00a0of the Australian National University of Canberra, will present Giuseppe Modica’s work. Modica is one of the most representative artists in the Italian contemporary […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,32],"class_list":["post-52144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-asia-e-oceania","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52144","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=52144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}