Padua pays tribute to Silvana Weiller Romanin Jacur (1922-2022), reserving for her an extensive retrospective at the Centro Culturale Altinate San Gaetano, from January 19 to March 2, 2025. The exhibition, curated by Nicola Galvan and Elisabetta Vanzelli, presents a hundred works distributed along two different but complementary scenarios, bearing witness to the two main themes explored by Weiller from after World War II onward.
In the space of the Agora of the Centro Culturale Altinate San Gaetano, the intimate and private theme of Jewish culture finds expression, which the author reworks through highly original narrative formulas, characterized by enormous rolls of paper – some up to four meters long – animated by biblically derived episodes and characters. These are unprecedented works with a fairy-tale and ironic tone, never previously exhibited, considering the familiar and domestic character for which they were conceived. Contextually, the balconies around the Agora give voice to scenarios of environmental derivation, with subjects traceable to natural and urban elements, including – first and foremost – the countless views of Prato della Valle, inhabited by trees and buildings that veer from naturalistic detail to abstract synthesis.
In its heterogeneity, the exhibition bears direct witness, on the one hand, to the places dearest to the artist’s personal vicissitudes, and on the other, to what she herself was able to experiment with throughout the second half of the twentieth century, accomplices of an attunement to the languages of the Avant-gardes and an intellectual depth that allowed her to range between formulas that were now more lyrical, now more abstract-geometric or gestural.
Opening: Saturday, January 18 at 6.30 p.m.
January 19, 2025 – March 02, 2025. Tuesday through Sunday 10 a.m.-7 p.m. (closed Mondays).
Free admission.
Information:
San Gaetano Cultural Center
tel. 049 8204857