Inauguration: Saturday 18 May, 7.00 pm

Saturday 18 May the exhibition “ DIASPORA DEL MITO. The Ionian Shore ”, curated by the art critic and historian Massimo Bignardi, professor of Contemporary Art History at the Sienese University.
The exhibition, promoted and organized by the CRAC Puglia of the Rocco Spani onlus Foundation, avails itself of the collaboration of the Chair of Contemporary Art History of the Department of Historical Sciences and Cultural Heritage of the University of Siena and of the ARCOS Museum of Benevento, and of the sponsored by the Puglia Region and the Biennale of proximity.
With the exhibition DIASPORA DEL MITO. The Ionian side , the CRAC Puglia continues the commitment undertaken - between idea and practice, between thought and matter, between methodologies and tools of design - moments, above all, that act on the territory as an incubator of actions and interventions. “The exhibition - writes Bignardi in the catalog published by Gutenberg Editore - traces a fil rouge underlying the languages that have characterized the contemporary art scene over the last three decades. Sixteen artists from different generations and from different creative practices, whose languages are marked by a larval rediscovery of Greece, as a dimension, as Hillman would have said, archetypal "of our mind and our culture".
The myth, even if not declared in its formal aspects, had made its way into the languages of postmodern culture that characterized the last three decades of the twentieth century and then, more particularly, in the latter, whose social and cultural scene is under the index of supermodernity, where history is projected into actuality. Painting and sculpture, in particular, have expressed and express a sort of retreat into the mythical that does not correspond to an involutionary signal of the culture of the 'modern', but rather as a perspective of the artist's ability to reimagine his relationship with the natural and human ".
The exhibition is divided into four parts that refer, by affinity, to as many figures taken from the mythological dictionary and connected to Pythagorean thought , to that School born in the lands of Ionian Magna Graecia: Mnemosine , Icarus , Orpheus and Dionysus .
The exhibition features works from museums and private collections by: Hermann Albert, Nicola Carrino, Angelo Casciello, Bruno Ceccobelli, Claudio Costa, Giulio De Mitri, Stefano Di Stasio, Giannetto Fieschi, Omar Galliani, Giuseppe Maraniello, Luigi Pagano , Antonio Paradiso, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Francesca Poto, Angelomichele Risi, Guido Strazza.