Giuseppe Monguzzi., Exhibition MAC - Museum of Contemporary Art of Lissone, Lissone

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Giuseppe Monguzzi.:

Secret Passions

From 7 September to 22 September 2019

MAC - Museum of Contemporary Art of Lissone

Viale Elisa Ancona, 6, Lissone

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Giuseppe Monguzzi grew up keeping in mind and in his eyes the paintings of the historic Lissone Prize. At only twenty-two, he obtained the privilege of participating in the most important edition of the Lissone Prize, that of 1961, in the informative-experimental section dedicated to the young people of the latest generation. At that time he was a young promise, but over the decades he continued to persevere, confirming long waits and great expectations. Having soon abandoned figurative painting, Monguzzi then turned to gesturality and expressiveness of color. His paintings are in fact resolved with dense and intense brushstrokes, which give the canvases a strong dynamism and an energetic tension. Color is certainly the dominant note of the artist, a color that defines a poetics and that the artist himself is keen to specify: Every experimentation, every research must deal with what one is and with that heritage of ideas and culture that one has behind. All this also in the unconscious complexity that each of us possesses. Making a visual sensation concrete, this is the most difficult and most exhilarating moment for a painter, this constant search, this continuous stripping in front of the white canvas, always with the fear of - not - finding the balance of the two poles. The gesture that becomes a sign, a provocative gesture, of violation, of desecration, up to the unforeseen - towards an unknown that is already all within the magma of one's own living. In 1986, his hometown dedicated the first anthology to him in the Palazzo Vittorio Veneto, recognizing in Monguzzi the achieved maturity of an artistic path that cannot exclude him from the ranks of the greats. In 2008, he returned to the attention of his fellow citizens with an exhibition at the Lissone Museum celebrating "Fifty years of painting", offering an overview of his work from the fifties to the most recent years; this is a worthy crowning and recognition of an autonomous and mature, certainly passionate research. On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, the municipal administration intended to pay tribute to the artist for the third time, giving voice to his (secret) passion for painting. A passion that is his whole life, as demonstrated by some small paintings from the late seventies that introduce to the large paintings of the following decades. About twenty works, specially chosen, have been identified as a corollary to the three canvases preserved in the Museum: "Secret Passions" (1985) which inspired the title of this same exhibition, "Homage to García Lorca" (1988) which for the occasion is accompanied by three unpublished paintings from the same cycle, up to the vertical impulse of the recent "Ascension" (2005). The commitment of the Administration, always attentive to the testimonies of the territory, is also a lively recognition of the instinctive gesture and the taste for color of Giuseppe Monguzzi. The exhibition dedicated to him is, not by chance, hosted in the Gino Meloni room, the one who trained and baptized him in the painting discipline. Meloni had written about him that "Monguzzi prefers a painting intense in meanings, rich, dominated by a will to penetrate reality, to grasp certain more austere aspects of the landscape, he is not interested in the airy transparency and the sweetness of color, but in the dense atmospheres of poetic mood".

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