Vincenzo Scolamiero. Of silence and transparency

Each powerful new suggestion only enhances forms and spaces already sedimented, in Scolamiero's figurative research, whether it is the primeval force of Birtwistle's compositions that upset the clods and painted papers like an earthquake, or the obsessive cyclical nature of the medieval antiphon that dismisses the rhythm of some of his figurative series by a whisker, or the telluric echo of the lines of Louise Glück which helps the artist to explore the depths of the shadow.

But a third protagonist lights up the canvases on display. If poetry and music feed the imagination and direct forms, a recent material experimentation orients the light, to quote Leonardo, and at the same time restores concreteness and truth to the ideal tension: with the very original use of precious lamellar powders, the same ones used in the restoration and gilding laboratories, Scolamiero accumulates more space, pushes towards the limit level of the paintings with large luminescent layers - declining pink gold, orange and gray - that bend like precious plates under a mysterious force. Gold invades everything, from bright surfaces to the darkest cavities, lights up the shadows and shines in the colors. And it seems, here on the ground floor of the Palazzo Pubblico, to want to pay homage to the illustrious Sienese school that from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance taught generations of great artists to gently spread the golden leaf on the wooden backgrounds, then to polish and punch it for the halos, the hems of the mantles, frames and wings of angels.

The canvases are complemented by the production of three cycles of artist's books, another rare model of a mixture of musical or poetic lexicon and figurative expression. The specimens are the result of the collaboration with the poet Milo De Angelis - from whom 12 unique works were created - and with the composer Silvia Colasanti, from the exchange with which seven of the score / painting type came out.

A third artist's book was commissioned by the United Federation of Italian Writers for the seventh centenary of the death of Dante Alighieri. It is another of the special expressive experiments in which Scolamiero lets the flow of fascination raised by Dante's great poetry flow and flow, and then channel it into the tight and rigorous process of artistic creation.

The exhibition is presented by the Municipality of Siena, conceived and curated the inner room - Siena, and is organized in collaboration with the Accademia Musicale Chigiana of Siena, the Galleria Edieuropa QUI contemporary art in Rome, and with the patronage of the Academy of Fine Arts. of Rome and the Roberto Bilotti Ruggi d'Aragona Museum of Contemporary Art in Rende (CS).

On the occasion of the exhibition, the catalog will be available with texts by art historians Francesca Bottari, Tiziana D’Acchille, Giuliana Stella, published by De Luca Editori d’Arte in Rome.

In collaboration with the Accademia Musicale Chigiana di Siena, a selection of plates from the book / opera "Every thing has said goodbye to everything", created with the composer Silvia Colasanti, will be exhibited in the premises of the Chigiana Art Café, in Via di Città , 89, Siena.

Artist Biography: Vicenzo Scolamiero