PALERMO. (sit) There are the three domes which, like sumptuous breasts, display their complex essence; and there is Palermo itself \u2014 small, layered, complex \u2014 living in the background through a few rapid, feverish, broad brushstrokes.<\/p>\r\n
Beppe Madaudo\u2019s new project is an intimate journey in search of the hidden essence of San Giovanni degli Eremiti: fourteen works on paper and panel, together with two canvases, make up the exhibition on view at the gallery L\u2019Altro Artecontemporanea<\/em> (Via Torremuzza 6, open daily from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.) until July 31.<\/p>\r\n The Palermo-born painter \u2014 born in 1950, with works held in national and international collections and included, according to Great 20th Century Artists<\/em>, among the eighty-seven most important artists of the last century \u2014 enters into dialogue with the monument, caressing its red domes with a light brushstroke, softening and dissolving their contours as though seeking to erase every trace of temporal weight.<\/p>\r\n Beppe Madaudo has chosen a different language from that of his previous works. He has abandoned the brilliant gold, the purplish red, the violent greens and blues \u2014 immersed in a sort of iconographic vision recalling mosaics \u2014 in favour of a more delicate, almost childlike vision: an intimate and complex conversation that lays bare the man and entrusts him to canvas, paper, and panel.<\/p>\r\n The technique remains the same: a mixture of Bologna plaster and rabbit-skin glue, applied either to fragile, frayed paper \u2014 produced in Acicastello through artisanal techniques dating back to the sixteenth century \u2014 or to panel. What emerges is a lighter Madaudo, less sumptuous, master of a torn, expanded, almost timeless visual language.<\/p>\r\n Alongside the works on paper and panel are also two canvases that pursue a separate discourse steeped in Sicilian spirit \u2014 itself a recurring motif in Madaudo\u2019s work: two horses, two different halves of the same island, the black stallion swollen with red and lava, and the white horse of light.<\/p>\r\n Beppe Madaudo is like them: overflowing with passion and, at the same time, light and airy as a bird; different souls belonging to a single inexhaustible passion, violently illuminated as though struck by a sudden light.<\/p>\r\n Si. T.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":300,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-302","news_intervista","type-news_intervista","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madaudo.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_intervista\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madaudo.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_intervista"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madaudo.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news_intervista"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madaudo.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madaudo.art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}