Aldo Mondino Lorenzo Puglisi
Le Grand Tour
© Lorenzo Puglisi 2024
lorenzopuglisi27@yahoo.it
Firenze Bologna
Arte magazine - september 2024
Exhibitions 2024
- 5:30
For three centuries Italy was at the center of a unique phenomenon in European cultural history, the Grand Tour, an educational journey, a cultural and human experience that artists of different eras undertook to experience direct contact with the richness of arts and antiquities of our wonderful country. At the same time, this year the cycling Tour de France will start from Italy for the first time in history: on June 29 "Le Grand Boucle" will start from Florence and will also touch the cities of Bologna (30 June) and Turin ( July 1st).
This extraordinary event, the most followed sporting event after the Olympics and the football World Cup, is the opportunity to create a joint exhibition by Aldo Mondino and Lorenzo Puglisi, Le Grand Tour, which ideally and materially, as great artists of the past did ( Durer, Stendhal, Goethe, Mann to name a few) follows the Italian stages of the race:
openings on 29th June in Florence, with exhibitions at the Galleria Santo Ficara, in collaboration with the Teatro Cartiere Carrara (with the curtains created by the two artists in 2005 and in 2023) and on June 30th in Bologna at Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, an historical building today also a branch of the National Art Gallery where is exhibited part of the Zambeccari Collection, the only Bolognese aristocratic collection to have survived almost intact until today (with works by authors such as Donato Creti, Giovanni Maria Crespi, Titian, Ludovico Carracci, Guercino, Palma the Younger) . The second part will take place in Turin and then the Grand Tour will end like the cycling race with a "grand finale" in Monte Carlo.
In this spirit of exchange and interconnections, painting, travel, the new and the ancient give rise to a unique kind of exhibition, original, dynamic, rich in content, in differences and affinities.
EXHIBITION INFO
TITLE: Le Grand Tour Aldo Mondino - Lorenzo Puglisi
Florence / Bologna
LOCATIONS AND DATES: 29 June / 29 September Florence
OPENING: Saturday 29 June h. 11.00am at Galleria Santo Ficara, via Arnolfo 6L
Curated by Valerio Dehò
Opening hours: Monday to Friday h. 11.00/12.30 and 16.00/19.00
Info: ph. (+39) 055 2340239
LOCATIONS AND DATES: 30 June / 30 September Bologna
OPENING: Sunday 30 June, h. 6pm at Campogrande Concept - Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, via Castiglione 7
Curated by Silvia Evangelisti
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday h. 11.00/12.30 and 16.00/19.00. Saturday by appointment
Info: on wattsapp at (+39) 335 7681559