Botero's Venus wall tapestry exhibided at Rovereto MART Museum
The imposing and delicate Venus of the Arazzeria Scassa, taken from a work by Fernando Botero, participates in the MART exhibition Botticelli. His time. And our time.
Important shapes, color contrasts that evoke the whiteness of the skin, bright greens that enhance nature, with a skilful play of threads following the hand of Fernando Botero. The Venus of the Arazzeria Scassa arrives at the MART in Rovereto to participates the exhibition Botticelli. His time. And our time inaugurated on 22 May 2021, an exhibition conceived by Vittorio Sgarbi and Eike Schmidt, curated by Alessandro Cecchi and Denis Isaia.
Massimo Bilotta, director of the Arazzeria Scassa attended the inauguration, together with Paola Gribaudo, president of the Albertina Academy in Turin. An important event that reopens, after a long stop, cultural activities and a hopeful sign for the future.
The exhibition presents two different pathways, a first part dedicated to
Sandro Botticelli, his artistic production in Lorenzo the Magnificent's Florence and a second part in which is investigates transversally, through the testimony of Contemporary Art masterpieces
from the 1960s to today, the role played by
Sandro Filipepi known as Botticelli
as a reference for the very idea of “beauty and beauty”.
Botticelli's art is in fact the point of attraction for artists such as Mario Ceroli, Giosetta Fioroni, Cesare Tacchi, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Ezio Gribaudo and Renato Guttuso and other internationally renowned artists, who dialogue in their works and thanks to their works, with the Florentine artist.
The Arazzeria Scassa participates in this exhibition, creating an interesting point of contact between different artistic worlds, bringing its unique experience of tapestry art, in contact with the great international masterpieces, decrypting the prolific language and unequivocal talent of the great Colombian artist, Fernando Botero, on the loom. Botero himself spent long time in Italy, in contact with the Tuscan tradition and it is in Asti, with the Arazzeria Scassa, that his creative work is sublimated in tapestry.
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