Marco Tirelli (Rome,1956), one of the leading figures in the movement to renew painting that took hold in Italy and abroad at the turn of the 1970s, presents a totally new exhibition-cum-installation with an enormous visual impact testifying to the most recent developments in his career.
The event marks yet another invitation to a leading Italian artist to devise a totally new project for Palazzo Esposizioni’s exhibition halls 9, 10, 11 and 12.
For this special event, Tirelli has devised a group of works configured to form a single large installation, a cycle in paint and in spirit, in which each work, while perfectly self-contained, is nevertheless part of a seamless, consistent fabric wending its way through the exhibition halls, turning them into a “theatre of memory” in which the artist builds a cosmogonic representation of his work, a visual atlas that embraces and reassembles his entire poetic universe. The collection interweaves visual memories with fragments of film, literature, art history and shadows of interior visions to produce an archive that is at once personal and universal.
The exhibition comprises a consistent group of forty-two paintings produced using an original method, devised by the artist, that involves a lengthy execution process and the use of a range of different techniques.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by Electa, designed in the style of a fully-fledged artist’s book with large plates reproducing all the works on display, illustrations showing them as a group in the Palazzo Esposizioni’s exhibition halls and essays by the curator, by writer Marco Lodolo and by art historian Victor I. Stoichita.