Nature, Exhibition National Gallery of Cosenza, Cosenza

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Nature:

by Antonio Pujia from Venice

From 5 May to 30 September 2024

National Gallery of Cosenza

Via Gian Vincenzo Gravina, Cosenza

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In the belief that art contributes to the development and overall growth of man, as well as to the refinement of his personality, the association Aleph Arte APS promotes, in collaboration with the Regional Directorate of Museums of Calabria, an important exhibition of paintings and ceramics entitled NATURE dedicated to the artist Antonio Pujia Veneziano.
The event of high artistic and cultural value, approved and welcomed in accordance with Article 70 of Legislative Decree 117/2017 by the Regional Directorate of Museums of Calabria, directed by Dr. Filippo Demma, will be hosted from May 5 to June 2, 2024 in the spaces of the National Gallery of Cosenza at Palazzo Arnone. Works on canvas and variously sized paper, as well as ceramics, belonging to different periods of the artist's research on the themes of NATURE and the current, widespread environmental sensitivity, filtered through the language of contemporary art, will be exhibited.
The National Gallery, directed by Dr. Rossana Baccari, is located in Palazzo Arnone where the works of the most important painters born in Calabria and Neapolitan artists are exhibited, along with the core constituted by the works of Mattia Preti and Luca Giordano. Equally significant is the section of graphic works by Umberto Boccioni and various collections. Up to contemporary artistic expressions of the territory with the works of Cesare Berlingeri, Giulio Telarico, and Alfredo Pirri.
In this prestigious context, the scheduled event aims to promote a renewed awareness and a more widespread environmental, social, and economic sensitivity through the languages of art. The inauguration scheduled for Sunday, May 5 at 5:30 pm will see the participation of the curators Andrea Romoli Barberini and Domenico Piraina, as well as the director Dr. Rossana Baccari, in the presence of the artist. The exhibition is fully integrated into the perspective of the activities contemplated by the Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape, which identifies museums, libraries, archives, archaeological areas, and parks as places of culture intended for public use and enjoyment, providing especially forms and ways for the non-onerous use of movable and immovable property for temporary events and initiatives.
The National Gallery of Cosenza, through the concession of spaces, in implementation of the principle of horizontal subsidiarity inspired by Article 118 of the Constitution, becomes concretely the privileged place for research, experimentation, public debate, and community meeting.
The event includes the publication of a monographic catalog, with texts by the curators Andrea Romoli Barberini, professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, and Domenico Piraina, director of Palazzo Reale in Milan, which aims to present and support the work of over fifty years of research by Pujia Veneziano who, while operating away from accredited art circuits, in which artists are more easily and often rewarded by the market and success, has distinguished himself among industry professionals for his current and original language.
Antonio Pujia Veneziano (Monterosso Calabro VV, 1953) is an artist now known nationally and by sector critics. The artist has built up a valuable exhibition curriculum and for many years has been carrying out projects based on interchange and integration, also promoting artistic events in socially open places and weaving a deep bond with the culture to which he belongs. A distinctive feature of all his work is avant-garde painting, together with an expressive development linked to the ceramic experience, which from a sign-gestural matrix language has evolved over time towards a more essential and minimal dimension.
In addition to his artistic activity, Antonio Pujia Veneziano is interested in art education and in 2008, at the invitation of the MIC, International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, he participated as a speaker in the study days on educational workshops inspired by B. Munari's methodology. In 2015, he curated the Public Art workshop "Conterraneo, Memory Identity and Poetics of Places" carried out in the village of Bova (RC) and for the Urban Section of the Museum of the Greco-Calabrian Language "Gerard Rohlfs" he created several ceramic works. Among these, the installation "Pirgos, speaking ceramics", also exhibited in the exhibition "CHAGALL, the Bible", curated by Domenico Piraina in 2021, at the Monumental Complex of San Giovanni (CZ). In 1992, he was awarded the Visual Arts Scholarship (International Project Civitella D'Agliano, VT), taking part in the international residential symposium for European artists.Countless ceramic works have been created as part of socio-educational projects and events of public and participatory art. Many of his works have been acquired by important museums and documented in prestigious public and private collections.

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