Antonio-Possenti

Work and life of Giosuè Carducci, on the occasion of the centenary of the death, Antonio Possenti dedicates an exhibition that opens Sunday, November 4th, 2007 at the Museo Casa Carducci of Santa Maria a Monte (PI).

Gentle giant. Reports Carducci, the title of the exhibition consists of 26 new works, 20 paintings and 6 drawings made for the occasion, which will become the permanent collection in the Museo Casa Carducci.

The exhibition was organized by the City of Santa Maria a Monte in the intention to highlight patterns historical, cultural and tourist area, prepared by Matithyah, projects for art and culture and marigold Editions, is part of the celebrations for the centenary Carducci the death of the poet organized in collaboration with the municipality of Castagneto Carducci, Pietrasanta and San Miniato, and has been designed by Master powerful like reading “intimate” of events, personalities and places in the life of Carducci.

The meeting with poets and writers is almost a point of destiny for Antonio Possenti, as shown by his exhibitions: from Arthur Rimbaud. Offers and suggestions, Hall of the Royal Post Office, Florence 1999, Zoo soul. Animals in the poetry of Giovanni Pascoli, in the guest of Casa Pascoli Castelvecchio Pascoli in 2005, to Best. Antonio Possenti, Federico Tozzi. Sixty-nine paintings for sixty-nine stories, Magazzini del Sale, Siena, 2006, until the recent exhibition (June-July 2007) in the Sala d’Arme di Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, dedicated to the work of Dino Campana.

This time the choice of Possenti has focused on Giosuè Carducci: In this exhibition, the artist takes a real trip around his creative world of poetry and biography, but, in keeping with the site that hosts it – the family home in Santa Maria a Monte – the show does not tell the prophet of Italy, but an intimate Carducci, family, a “gentle giant”.

At number 29 on Via del Renaio (now Via Carducci) Carducci fact, the family lived in the period when the poet taught rhetoric at the gymnasium in the nearby town of San Miniato, and here he lost his brother Dante, who committed suicide November 4, 1857 (the inauguration fall precisely in the 150 years of recurrence), and the following year his father Michael, doctor of the area.

What, precisely, a powerful and Carducci family is the love of Carducci in Bolgheri cypresses in front of San Guido, silent snowfall of Bologna, Il Bove, a monument to peace of the countryside and it is bound by Carducci in Santa Maria a Monte, remembered in the ode to the Blessed Diana Giuntini in Juvenilia, or Dismallo mersit bitter, the sweet invitation to his brother Dante to welcome with love in the realm of the dead child lost only three years.

But Carducci is also the joy of “carousing”, gargantuan eating that began in the morning and ended at dusk, which the artist painted the tavern The Guglielmo Lucchese Santa Maria a Monte, and the sweet, old love letters to Carducci Annie vivant.

The works on display testify to the perfect and successful translation of that language in a language, if possible, more lyrical. Possenti said affectionately part of an extraordinary story and was able to tell with his very own alphabet of colors, a script that sometimes coincides with that of the poet, as in the painting inspired by the bright and colorful images of Summer Dream .

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog published by Marigold editions, with speeches by Giandomenico Semeraro, Carlo Alberto and Veronica Madrignani Carpi.

The restoration that the municipality of Santa Maria a Monte worked on Casa Carducci has tried to conserve as much as possible is the type that the original structure, was recovered partly wooden structure, as they have been stored The plasterwork in the main room on the main floor. In the basement is an area that the municipality intends to use for conferences and debates, while the ground floor there is the point of ininformazione tourism. On the first floor with access from Via Carducci, there are two rooms for the permanent exhibition. On the second floor, alongside an exhibition last time, there is the historical archive of the town of Santa Maria a Monte. Also recovered was the covert way of Via Capannoli as exhibition space outdoors.

A curiosity: at number 33 of Via Carducci, Vincenzo Galilei lived, renowned musician and father of Galileo. Numerous documents that the Galileo was the family home and possessions to Santa Maria a Monte, and Vincenzo was born here in 1520. Surely, the grandmother of Galileo Galilei, who was a Bergh, belonged to a family of Santa Maria a Monte.

The event was realized with the help of Gemini Shoe Meliani Bruno & C Shoe Gardenia, Eco-Vip Scrapping Vehicles Ecology.
Days and hours of operation: Tuesday to Friday from 10.00 to 13.00 and 15:00 – 18:00 – Saturday 10,00 – 13,00 – Saturday afternoon and Sunday by appointment

Tickets: Euro 3,00 – Reduced: EUR 2,00 for groups (minimum 5 people) – Gift: residents ultrasessantacinquenni and students of primary schools

For information:
Tourist Office Santa Maria a Monte
Tel: 0587/749201 – 704,254

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