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“Andrea Martinelli – Stories of Men and Shadows. Works 1999-2019.”<\/h2>\n

Curated by Massimo Bertozzi and Antonio Natali
\nSeptember 6-November 24, 2019<\/p>\n

Palazzo Cucchiari – Giorgio Conti Foundation
\nVia Cucchiari, 1 – Carrara<\/p>\n

Hours:<\/b> September<\/strong> Tuesday to Sunday 10 a.m.-12 p.m.; 4-8 p.m. | October and November<\/strong> Tuesday to Sunday 3-7 p.m. Visits in the morning by appointment only. Closed Mondays.<\/p>\n

Info:<\/b> 0585 72355 – info@palazzocucchiari.it<\/p>\n

Entrance fee: <\/b>5 euros<\/p>\n

Catalog: <\/b>Bandecchi & Vivaldi<\/p>\n

Sponsor: <\/b>RED Granites<\/p>\n

Media partner:<\/b> Windows on Art
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On Friday, September 6, 2019, opens the solo exhibition of Tuscan artist Andrea Martinelli Storie di uomini e ombre. Works 1999-2019<\/em><\/strong> curated by Massimo Bertozzi and Antonio Natali.<\/p>\n

Andrea Martinelli<\/strong> (Prato, 1965) is one of the most established Italian painters and draftsmen who has distinguished himself for his original research, rich in reflections and critical insights on the theme of shadows, the face and the human figure.<\/p>\n

The major anthological exhibition, which traces the last two decades of his career, will be set up on the two “noble” floors of Palazzo Cucchiari. For the occasion, about seventy works will be exhibited, many of them of large format, which will make up six sections, whose themes will be The Face, The Figure, The Grandfather, The Drawing, The Self-Portraits and The Night<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The matrix of all the artist’s work is drawing, which is a distinctive feature of all Florentine art and of the great Tuscan artists. Drawing, in Martinelli’s human figures and faces, is understood not only as a graphic exercise, but as an expression of a figurative language and thought that explores human depth. The series of drawings in the exhibition, rich in meticulously delineated details, although born as preparatory works to the pictorial works, are configured precisely because of the maniacal attention to detail as autonomous works.<\/p>\n

Among the works on display, some of which are previously unpublished, are the triptych exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2011 and a selection of the self-portraits presented to the Uffizi Gallery on the occasion of the donation of the self-portrait “La Bocca,” which became part of the Vasarian Corridor collection in 2013.<\/p>\n

One room will be devoted to the monumental portraits of his beloved grandfather Dino, a theme that made the artist known to the general public in 2005, after the solo exhibition Il volto e l’ombra<\/em> at the Museo della Permanente in Milan curated by Flavio Arensi.<\/p>\n

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Antonio Natali<\/strong> writes in the catalog essay, “To have portrayed his grandfather’s face in works of such large dimensions-I am thinking of the works of 2004 and 2005-seemed to me a sign of his desire to combine (so that each would be exalted by the other) the monumentality of the images with the strength of his feelings of love, but perhaps above all of esteem for a figure who had played a considerable role in his human formation.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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