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Pàginas desde Lombardia
Itineranti di ritorno

March 6 - may 1, 2005
Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 10.00  to 12.00 and from 15.00 to 18.00.
Entrance fee: € 2.60,  cut-rate tickets € 1.60

The exhibit will open on Saturday, March 5,  at  17.30

Press release

An array of artists – 44 of them, to be precise – are here as the representatives of Lombardy’s liveliness as far as the pictorial culture of the last three generations is concerned.

Civico Museo Parisi-Valle’s 2005 spring exhibition is “Paginàs desde Lombardia. Itineranti di ritorno,” one of the most interesting collective exhibits of the recent years. The exhibit will include the works of some of the most important contemporary artists of the region and will offer a comprehensive selection of works by Lombardic painters. This exhibition was originally conceived for the Spanish authorities as part of a series of events which included the design and construction of a Contemporary Art Museum. Between 2002 and 2003 the exhibit was set up in several towns and cities: Castel d’Aro, then Santa Pau, then Platea d’Aro, and finally Santa Susanna, where it was turned into a permanent exhibition in 2004. The debut in Lombardy took place in the modern art museum “Gazoldo degli Ippoliti” in 2002.

Now this collection is once again back from Spain and is hosted by the Parisi-Valle museum in Maccagno, a museum that – as years go by – proves to be a more and more precious “cultural bridge” that connects all the various moments and expressions of contemporary painting.

“Paginàs desde Lombardia. Itineranti di ritorno” displays, as Claudio Rizzi writes in the exhibit’s catalog, different languages and different forms of poetry clearly distinguishable from one another even when similarities in terms of contents and techniques could suggest a common intention. He also points out how all these different artistic worlds express a wealth of feelings that bears witness to an intellectual liveliness and relentless research by the youngest generations of painters.

“Pages of Lombardy” is the title of the exhibit as well as a description of its content, but this exhibition is not trying to take up the role of ultimate incarnation of contemporary art in this region. In fact, it is simply what it says it is: pages, paragraphs and chapters taken from a much wider context. However, these pages have been chosen with extreme care.

This exhibit has been organized by Ad Acta Associazione Culturale, and the contribution of Assessorato alle Culture, Identità e Autonomie della Regione Lombardia, from a project by Raffaele De Grada, Cristina Portioli Staudacher and Claudio Rizzi. The exhibit includes works by (the names of artists from the province of Varese are shown in Italic):

Floriano Bodini, Giancarlo Cazzaniga, Giancarlo Ossola, Enzo Maio, Antonio Pedretti, Melo Consoli, Sandro Negri, Luiso Sturla, Alessandro Savelli, Luigi Stradella, Franca Ghitti, Giuseppe Monguzzi, Piermario Dorigatti, Ferdinando Capisani, Paolo Borrelli, Massimo Marchesotti, Italo Chiodi, Giuseppe Ayna, Elena Strada, Flora Bravin, Trento Longaretti, Maria Jannelli, Renato Galbusera, Laura Branca, Maria Luisa Simone, Paola Bonaldi, Edoardo Bassoli, Stefano Pizzi, Gianni Cella, Ernesto Jannini, Gianantonio Abate, Manuela Bedeschi, Max Marra, Antonio Pizzolante, Valdi Spagnulo, Daniela Nenciulescu, Mario De Leo, Igino Legnaghi, Ayako Nakamiya, Pierantonio Verga, Giorgio Vicentini, Tetsuro Shimizu, Italo Bressan and Rita Siragusa.

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Gianantonio Abate  Terapie paradisiache, 1995		Floriano Bodini Testa di rinoceronte, 1979		Ferdinando Capisani Campo poetico, 2002

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Giuseppe Monguzzi Interno giallo, 1999		Giancarlo Ossola Dislivelli, 2001		Antonio Pedretti Studio per Gestual Paludoso, 2002

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Antonio Pizzolante Attesa… in silenzio,		Tetsuro Shimizu Contraddizione, 2002		Pierantonio Verga Può darsi ripassi un angelo, 2002