From 7 December 2024 to 30 March 2025, the Museo Eremitani will host the exhibition Ezio Bruno Caraceni – Nel labirinto dell’informale – dagli anni ’50 ai ’70, a significant window on a Veneto artist to be rediscovered, realised thanks to the contribution of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo.
The retrospective is composed of over one hundred works from the Caraceni Archive, which narrate the career of the artist, who was born in Chioggia in 1927 and died at the age of 59, after having lived most of his life in Rome. The exhibition itinerary, curated by Enrica Feltracco and Massimiliano Sabbion, has been designed to emphasise the means that Caraceni used to ‘break out of tradition’, thanks to his gesture painting: a technical, rigorous, objective art that shuns any intimist temptation, through four periods in the artist’s life.
It begins with the ‘training’ period (from the late 1940s to 1956): a varied path that, starting with the move to Rome – soon marked by the ‘revolution of the artists of Via Margutta’ in 1954 – arrives at the invitation of the 1956 Venice Biennale. It continues with the ‘plastics’, created from 1957 to 1961. In this section, one can admire what was created with extra-thin Plexiglas, but also the craters from sacks, made famous by Alberto Burri.
The ‘wires’, in the 1960s, characterise the most representative period of Caraceni’s art, representing the breaking point between nails and iron wires. The last period identified by the curators is that of the ‘labyrinths and maps’, featured in the important exhibition at the Galleria del Cavallino, curated by Maurizio Calvesi in 1968, the year in which Caraceni was also invited back to the Venice and Tokyo Art Biennales. In the Maps, one perceives the need for a return to a man-made world, but where science becomes science fiction, space ‘fantasy space’.
Rediscovery is the added value of this exhibition, which comes sixteen years after the one that the University of Padua held in Palazzo Ragazzoni Flangini Biglia in Sacile, with the collaboration of the Culture sector of the City of Padua.
From 07 December 2024 to 30 March 2025, every day, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Price: included in the entrance ticket to the Museo Eremitani.
Info:
Eremitani Museum
Piazza Eremitani, 8
Tel. +39 049 8204551
