"Drawings" by Giuseppe Penone

Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto Gallery of Modern Art, is hosting the exhibition Drawings by Giuseppe Penone, to curated by Marco Tonelli. The exhibition outlines Penone's visual thinking, not only with respect to the iconography of the tree, which the artist considers "the first and simplest idea of vitality, of culture, of sculpture," but also in relation to writing, drawing as an autonomous means of expression, and sculpture as a mirror of the self.

Drawing, the original matrix of artistic creation, is the fulcrum from to which the exhibition unfolds: works on paper, often enriched from notes and writings, accompanied from a series of black-and-white photographs of woods, trees and vegetation, taken by the artist himself as if they were sketches made by means of another medium.

The inspiration for the exhibition-the first dedicated exclusively to drawing realized from Penone in Italy-stemmed from the works of Leoncillo (1915-1968), about forty sculptures and drawings preserved in the spaces of Palazzo Collicola. The artist wrote in his text Small Diary: Why do I make a tree? Because I am a tree. Then I might as well be a tree. to this assumption seems to be replicated by Penone's words: A tree is already in itself an extraordinary sculpture, a living entity which holds within itself the memory of its own structure and form.

Among the greatest representatives of Arte Povera, Penone's works, expressions of the revelatory valence of nature, are preserved in the most renowned international museums and are part of prestigious collections.

Work in progress

On the Piano Nobile, in the large Salone d'Onore, the exhibition Work in progress, ancient paintings and drawings, especially sketches and preparatory studies, from the Spoleto collection of the Marignoli Foundation of Montecorona, which is put in an ideal line of continuity with sketches and projects of modern and contemporary art to curated by Michele Drascek, Duccio K. Marignoli, Marco Tonelli, preserved in the Gallery of Modern Art in Palazzo Collicola.

"Astanze" by Stefano Di Stasio

The ground floor hosts the solo exhibition Stefano Di Stasio: Astanze, large-format paintings from the collection of Rome's historic Attico Gallery, to curated by Fabio Sargentini and Marco Tonelli, which occupies much of the floor with a theatrical and atmospheric set-up.

Site-specific sculptures by Jose Angelino

Also on the Piano Nobile, in the museum itinerary (and in an outdoor garden at Palazzo Collicola), are site-specific sculptures by artist Jose Angelino Resistance, to curated by Davide Silvioli with the collaboration of Alessandra Bonomo.

The event is hosted in the Festival poster and is organized in artistic and economic autonomy.