MAON, 19th and 20th century art museum in Rende (CS)
September 27, 2014, 6:30 PM
LUIGI MAGLI
ABSTRACT PRACTICE OF A SENSE
Site specific
monographic volume on the artist with texts, in Italian and English, by Bruno Cora, Massimo Di Stefano and Tonino Sicoli
TOP MAON
Works from the permanent collections
curated by Tonino Sicoli, Bruno Corà, Massimo Di Stefano, Leonardo Passarelli
On display from 27 September to October 18, 2014
After the success of the summer season, which saw a large turnout of visitors, the MAON, the Museum of 19th and 20th Century Art in Rende, continues its 2014 program as part of the celebrations for its tenth anniversary (2004 – 2014) and giving its cultural contribution to the Settembre Rendese.
On September 27 at 6:30 pm, an installation by Luigi Magli created specifically for the Museum, entitled “Pratica nuda di un senso” (Abstract Practice of a Sense), will be inaugurated at Palazzo Vitari (18th century) where the MAON is located in the historic center of Rende.
For the occasion, a monographic volume on the artist will be presented with texts, in Italian and English, by Bruno Cora, Massimo Di Stefano and Tonino Sicoli, published by MAON and Kompass. And to provide a worthy backdrop to Magli's "site specific" work, in other rooms of the Museum the excellence of the collections acquired in this decade will be exhibited in the "TOP MAON" exhibition, curated by Tonino Sicoli and Roberto Sottile.
At the evening, after greetings from the mayor of Rende Marcello Manna, the municipal councilor for culture Vittorio Toscano and the president of BCC Mediocrati Nicola Paldino, Bruno Corà, president of the "Fondazione Alberto Burri" and director of the CAMUSAC of Cassino, Massimo Di Stefano, professor of History of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Luigi Magli, artist and professor of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catanzaro, Tonino Sicoli, artistic director of the MAON of Rende will speak.
Magli's installation and the TOP MAON exhibition (with works by artists from the historical avant-garde such as Picasso, Braque, Max Ernst, Balla, Tapies, or those of the Calabrians of the nineteenth century such as Morani, Benassai, Santoro, Jerace, Renda, Milanesi, Guerrisi, La Monaca, Grandinetti Mancuso, A. Alfano, Capizzano, Marasco, Rotella, Di Sarro, Gallo, or of well-known contemporary masters such as Mastroianni, Corpora, Crippa, Schifano, Boetti, Ceroli, Del Pezzo, Carrino, Di Ruggiero, C. Alfano, Esposito, Persico, up to those of some foreign artists linked to Calabria such as Hasson, Nussbaumer, Bassiri...) will remain open to the public until October 18, 2014.
Luigi Magli was born in Rende in 1953 and lives in Cosenza. He trained in the 70s, becoming interested in pictorial experiences in which a certain gesturality and informal research prevail. Attracted by the expressionist side of the avant-garde, between the end of the 70s and the 80s, he developed a research in the direction of a "personal expressionism" (E. Crispolti), which "is also a revisitation of the roots of modern art" (F. Menna). In 1981 he exhibited in Graz at the XVI Internationalen Malerwochen at the Neu Galerie am Landesmuseum Ioanneum with a presentation by Wilfried Skreiner. Between 1982 and 1983 with the participation in some art shows such as the Art 13/82 in Basel, the Internationaler kunst markt in Dusseldorf and the Arco 82 in Madrid.
In 1986 he was again at the Art 17 in Basel and in Zurich at the Teucher Gallery with two solo shows a year after the Bologna solo show at the Fernando Pellegrino Gallery. In 1984, an important moment is represented by the participation in the exhibition I post-meridionali, which Filiberto Menna, Enrico Crispolti and Tonino Sicoli present at the “Di Sarro” Center in Rome. In 1986 he is invited to the exhibition “Fall-out” in Catanzaro; in the same year his work is the subject of a Rai television documentary “L’animale dipinto” by Marcello W. Bruno; again in 1986 he executes a pictorial cycle “Arintha” in the Municipal Palace of Rende.
In 1987 he held a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Catanzaro.
In 1995 he exhibited at the Civic Museum of Rende and in 1997 he held a solo exhibition at the Civic Museum of Martirano in 1997). At the Ar&s gallery in Catanzaro in 2001 he participated in the exhibition Camere con Vista and at the MAON in Rende in the same year he was among the artists invited to the Art Box exhibition.
In 2005 he participated in the exhibition of the MAC Opere ed Artisti 1973-92 at the Monumental Complex of San Giovanni in Catanzaro, he exhibited at Quante Storie. Stories of contemporary art in the south at the Norman-Swabian Castle in Bari and at Mediterraneo d'Arte at the Central State Archives in Rome. In August 2009 he created a commemorative stele for the victims of the mafia in Acquaformosa (Cs). In 2010 he held an exhibition at the Galerie Bertrand Kass in Innsbruck, in 2011 he held the solo exhibitions “Lo spazio aureo” at the MARCA in Catanzaro and “Il presente è passato” at the Museo del Presente in Rende.
Also in 2011 the video “Atelier Magli” by Antonio Renda was created with an interview by Alberto Fiz.
