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Vincenzino Vanetti’s existential expressionism

March 21 thru May 23, 2004
Open on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays  from 10.00  to 12.00 am, and from 03.00 to 06.00 pm.
Tickets: € 2.60   Cut-rate tickets:  € 1.60

Inauguration on Saturday, March 20 2004 - 5.00 pm

Press release

This artist is going to draw your full attention; painting after painting, sculpture after sculpture he penetrates your soul, forcing you to see even what we all sometimes try to ignore: the other side of life.
Vincenzino Vanetti creates - with his effective and violent colors and brush strokes as well as with the shapes of his sculptures - elongated figures with pain carved in their looks, people refused by society, outcasts. These are men and women rejected by their own communities, or that have voluntarily decided not to let society assimilate them and to keep away from any kind of social life. These are the beggars, the homeless, and the refugees that roam with no aim in painful solitude.

This self-taught artist from  Luino has become more and more effective and sharp in his work, and now the Parisi-Valle museum in Maccagno has organized an exhibition called “Vincenzino Vanetti’s existential expressionism” to display his works. The exhibit will open on Saturday, March 20 at 5.00 pm and will be open till Sunday, May 23.  “Istituto Tecnico per Periti Aziendali Nuccia Casula” of Varese, whose students have done an accurate study on Vanetti in 2002, will sponsor this event.

“Opening the season with an exhibition of the works by Vanetti is for us something special,” says Maccagno’s mayor Renzo Giani. “Our community has always kept an eye on this man’s artistic path, we have always followed his career and seen him become more and more important even beyond the boundaries of his region. His social commitment - very evident in so many of his works - has turned him into a fully mature human being and, at last, a well known artist.”

His artistic path - which ultimately is not just artistic but psychological, too - is an intensely dramatic kind of art clearly inspired by German expressionism: a universe of colors, shapes and simple movements that make his sculptures and paintings a triumph of honesty and brutality.

In brief, Vanetti is extremely good at forcing us not to look the other way and just walk by, as you will see when visiting this exhibit.  Before his works we can’t deny a helping hand to the many unlucky people that our society’s  “respectability” sentences to degradation and uttermost alienation.  In those people we find a part of humanity that demands our attention and deserves to be accepted and loved.
Vanetti’s existential expressionism makes us see these aspects of life that we all must see.

The exhibit is organized by Daniela Martarelli with the cooperation of Renato Valerio.