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GIANCARLO OSSOLA
Works from 2000 through 2007

June 3 to July 15, 2007
Open from Thursday through Sunday, 10.00 to 12.00 am / 3.00 to 7.00 pm
Tickets: Euro 2.60   cut- rate tickets:  Euro 1.60

The exhibit will open on Saturday, June 2, 2007 at 5.30 p.m

Press release

Civico Museo Parisi Valle, beside the collective exhibitions regarding a particular theme or modern tendencies, focuses on the most interesting personalities of contemporary art on Lombardy dedicating personal exhibits to individual artists. After the exhibit displaying Trento Longaretti’s works, Civico Museo displays now works by Giancarlo Ossola.

Ossola – today one of the most important artists in the field - was born in Milan in 1935, but his family’s origins draw him back to Varese very often.
His strong artistic personality has gained him a vast number of exhibitions on national territory and the attention of the critics.

This exhibition – designed by Claudio Rizzi – features around 40 paintings, all of them made after the year 2000. Therefore, the focus is on the artist’s more mature works and his most recent style.
The introduction to the catalog written by Stefano Crespi gives the reader the correct context in which Ossola’s body of work must be inserted to be fully appreciated, as it takes into consideration the general evolution of the artistic languages from the second half of the twentieth century to date and the peculiarities of Ossola’s works throughout the years of his activity.

Giancarlo Ossola has evolved from his first works that were influenced by the informal movement in Lombardy to his own personal vision of mankind in which he perceives and represents the presence through the absence.
Abandoned rooms, factories, studios, all bear witness to the passage of time and past lives, becoming a sort of huge post industrial stage for the traces left by the people that once inhabitated them.

None of the works you’ll be able to see in this exhibit has ever been displayed before, which makes this a unique occasion to analyze Ossola’s most recent artistic and technical evolution. Ossola has moved from the synthesis of the quick, instinctive strokes of the brush to a more quiet, contemplating image representation that will certainly appeal to all.

The exhibition will be open from June 3 through July 15, 2007 at the modern art museum Parisi Valle in Maccagno. A catalog published by Nicolini Editore will also be available; it includes all the information about Ossola’s career and about the paintings displayed in the exhibit.