Graphic exercise and human depth: Carrara, at Palazzo Cucchiari the solo exhibition with works from 1999 to 2019 by Andrea Martinelli

From Sept. 6 to Nov. 24, 2019, the exhibition Stories of Men and Shadows is on view at Palazzo Cucchiari in Carrara. Works 1999 - 2019, a solo exhibition by Tuscan artist Andrea Martinelli, curated by Antonio Natali and Massimo Bertozzi. Born in Prato in 1965, Martinelli offers a journey through the last two decades of his career, set up in the noble floors of Palazzo Cucchiari.

About seventy works are on display for the occasion, divided among six sections: “The Face,” “The Figure,” “The Grandfather,” “The Drawing,” “Self-Portraits” and “Night.” “The matrix of all the artist’s work is drawing, which is a distinctive feature of all Florentine art and of the great Tuscan artists,” the presentation reads. “Drawing, in Martinelli’s human figures and faces, is understood not only as a graphic exercise, but as an expression of a figurative language and thought that explores human depth. The series of drawings in the exhibition, rich in minutely delineated details, although born as preparatory works to the pictorial works, are configured precisely because of the maniacal attention to detail as autonomous works.”

Among the works on display are the triptych Martinelli took to the Italian Pavilion of the 2011 Biennale (the well-known pavilion curated by Vittorio Sgarbi) and the self-portraits the artist donated to the Uffizi Gallery. The works also include the series of portraits of his grandfather Dino. “To have portrayed his grandfather’s face in works of such large dimensions,” writes Antonio Natali, “seemed to me to be a sign of his desire to combine (so that each would be exalted by the other) the monumentality of the images with the strength of his feelings of love, but perhaps above all of esteem for a figure who had played a considerable role in his human formation.”

For info and hours see the Palazzo Cucchiari website.

Graphic exercise and human depth: Carrara, at Palazzo Cucchiari the solo exhibition with works from 1999 to 2019 by Andrea Martinelli

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