The Coppola Foundation is pleased to present STANZE, the exhibition by Flavio De Marco (Lecce, 1975) and Matthias Weischer (Elte, Germany, 1973), scheduled from 6 May to 30 July in the spaces of the Torrione di Porta Castello, accompanied by a critical text by Davide Ferri.

The project, which includes about thirty paintings, is first of all a possibility to explore the work of two emblematic artists in the panorama of international painting: Weischer, known in Italy for his participation in the Venice Biennale in 2005, is in fact, together with Neo Rauch and to David Schnell, one of the leading representatives of the New School of Leipzig, who represented, between the 1990s and 2000s and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a moment of profound renewal in international figuration; Over the course of more than twenty years, De Marco has developed an incessant research and reflection on the screen as a landscape in painting, and has held personal exhibitions in Italian and international museums and foundations such as the Estorick Collection in London, the Maramotti Collection, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, the National Gallery in Rome and the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara.

STANZE is above all a dialogue and a confrontation between the poetics of the two artists which is articulated along the five floors of the Torrione around a central nucleus: the spatiality of the painting, which translates into the representation of interiors - rooms, in fact - to which real and own inner landscapes.

Weischer's works, in particular, focus on uninhabited, enigmatic spaces and environments, suspended between a before and an after, between the disappearance and the silent expectation of human presence and an event. The rooms painted by the artist are thus semi-empty environments, temporarily abandoned, stripped of elements of reality, places where the sense of waiting is amplified through the introduction of other spaces within the environments, paintings and mirrors (therefore images within images ) frequently hung on the walls of rooms. Furthermore, Weischer's works are scores in which space is defined through a long process of stratification, which gives the painting a vibrant material presence, like a sensitive skin which is also, inevitably, a dimension of time.