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Dolores Previtali - Pierantonio Verga

September 15 thru November 2, 2008
Opening hours: Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, holidays: 10-12 am / 3.00 - 6.00 pm
Tickets: Euro 2.60   cut- rate tickets:  Euro 1.60

The exhibit will open on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 5.30 pm
 

Press release

Dolores Previtali’s sculptures and Pierantonio Verga’s paintings appear to have a spontaneous symbiosis in that their interpretations of life are similar, especially in their conjuring suffocating absences. These absences are clear, well defined, and easily perceivable like the pulsation of an announced imminence.
Both artists were born in the 40’s in Lombardy  (Previtali in Bergamo and Verga in Milan) and have had intense artistic careers. Their strong personalities helped them develop individual but parallel styles and visions.
Previtali lives and works in Robbiate, in the province of Lecco, while Verga lives and works in Desio, in the province of Milan.
Dolores Previtali has a recurring theme: human figures deprived of the place they belong to, like ever-searching souls lost in an alien space. Pierantonio Verga paints dream-like places, visions without the people who generated or experienced the visions, a vibrant absence of reason.
Places with no inhabitants, and people with no place, their works are complementary, their creations meet and discuss.  A union based on a peculiar perception of some elements, which allows for subjective interpretations directed towards memory and the innermost parts of ourselves.
Visually, we have the feeling that the lost souls by Previtali want to move into Verga’s infinite spaces, and that those spaces welcome those suffering souls that have wandered for so long.
The exhibit is designed to enhance this symbiosis between sculptures and paintings, in order to make them walk together along a common path.
The exhibition consists of around twenty works, some of which are rather large sized.
Art is becoming more and more an expression of the inside rather than a mere representation of the outside, and these works – both when examined individually and combined – are the perfect means to familiarize with this concept.
Claudio Rizzi has designed the exhibit, with an important contribution by Stefano Crespi for the catalog, which will include biographies and pictures of all the works on display.