Between magic and geometry, Francesco Casorati's painting
Francesco Casorati's exhibition 'Between magic and geometry', at Palazzo Lomellini in Carmagnola (vernissage Friday 2 September at 6.30 pm, open to the public until 13 November), traces the most significant stages of the long career of 'artist.
Four main "focuses" dedicated by choice only to the pictorial works selected for their emblematic meaning by the curator Elena Pontiggia, who, in the introductory essay to the catalog, underlines the original character of the artistic career of Francesco Casorati, son of Felice Casorati, one of the greatest artists of the century and Daphne Maugham, painter and granddaughter of the famous novelist Somerset Maugham.
The first room displays works from the 1950s, such as the visionary "Tower of Babel" from 1952, a metaphor for war, the inability of men to understand each other, painted by Francesco Casorati when he was just eighteen. In the second room the following period characterized by the blue color, the color of distance and dreams, among which "the Great Sparrow", a work of 1968, emerges. The exhibition continues on the second floor with the room dedicated to a series of works painted in acrylic. where the subjects are cooled and suspended as in "Labirinto di carta" of 1984, and finally in the last room the most recent production characterized by a return to oil painting, such as the poetic "Seven boats and three fish" of 2010.
"The exhibition was born from an idea of Professor Riccardo Cordero and from the collaboration of the Department of Culture with the Casorati family archives. The result is an anthological exhibition, which takes the visitor into an exciting and fairytale atmosphere, to discover the singular artistic path of a great master. An experience that tends to dialogue with an audience of varied sensibility "underline the mayor Ivana Gaveglio and the councilor Alessandro Cammarata.
