Jacopo Ginanneschi / Giuseppe Veneziano
Due mostre: Jacopo Ginanneschi, L’ultimo segreto / Giuseppe Veneziano, Piazze d’Italia.
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JACOPO GINANNESCHI
L'ULTIMO SEGRETO
curated by Ivan Quaroni
opening
Thursday, September 25th
from 6 p.m.
Painting on panel or canvas using the glazing technique, Jacopo Ginanneschi manages to restore a contemplative and cognitive value to figurative painting. His pictorial works – from Elia nel deserto (2023) to La predica di San Giovanni Battista (2025) and I monti scuri (2023) – are the result of meticulous observation and synthesys. Ginanneschi creates a series of preliminary sketches, made en plain air, from which he then selects the subjects of the actual paintings.The resulting works do not mimic reality, but translates it in visions imbued with a suspended atmosphere.
The artist moves between medieval and Renaissance influences, and twentieth-century suggestions, drawing inspiration from both the Tuscan Primitives of the 14th and 15th centuries, and from Metaphysical and Magical Realist painters. In his landscapes, each natural detail is charged with symbolic meaning, and human figures often appear as archaic presences, immersed in a sacred yet unsettling dimension that recalls the sanctity of ancient painting.
Join us on Thursday, September 25th from 6 p.m. for the opening of Jacopo Ginanneschi solo show L'ultimo segreto, curated by Ivan Quaroni. The show will be on view until November 8th.
GIUSEPPE VENEZIANO
PIAZZE D'ITALIA
Magic Bus Project Room
curated by Ivan Quaroni
opening
Thursday, September 25th
from 6 p.m.
Giuseppe Veneziano reflects upon the transformed notion of fame in the era of mass media and hyper-visibility. If once monuments used to celebrate heroes of the past or memorable deeds, nowadays visibility often equates to fleeting notoriety. Hence, in Piazza Maurizio Cattelan, stands the artist’s infamous middle finger sculpture, installed in 2010 in front of the Milan Stock Exchange, while Piazza Michelangelo Pistoletto hosts a monumental Venere degli Stracci, that symbolizes the vulnerability of public art. A touch of irony and self-awareness is also present in Piazza Giuseppe Veneziano, where the artist places his own huge blue banana, subject of heated media debate.
Conceived as a post-modern atlas, Piazze d’Italia oscillates between citation and reinvention, between De Chirico’s existential enigma and the diabolical phenomenology of contemporary art. For Veneziano, the piazza becomes a stage for critical vision – a narrative device where art history merges with contemporary reality, memory meets the present and aesthetics intertwines with communication.
Join us on Thursday, September 25th from 6 p.m. for the opening of Giuseppe Veneziano solo show L'ultimo segreto, curated by Ivan Quaroni. The show will be on view until November 8th.
