Opera Gallery, Hong Kong presents “Colors of Italy: Italian Contemporary Masters,” a group exhibition featuring the works of four Italian artists. Coinciding with Bellissima Italia, the annual festival celebrating Italian culture in Hong Kong, “Colors of Italy” will showcase artworks by some of the most exciting Italian artists of the contemporary art scene, including Alessandro Algardi, Marcello Lo Giudice, Pino Manos, and Umberto Mariani. The exhibition aims to bring about a fresh interpretation of the diversity of techniques surrounding some of the most influential Italian artistic trends from the latter half of the 20th century and into contemporary practice. The viewers will witness a broad range of interpretations concerning the synthesis of color, space, gesture, and time between the art object and the viewer.Alessandro Algardi’s (b. 1945, Milan, Italy) work fluctuates within the experimental field of the visual-poetic, examining the fluidity between the act of writing and the materiality of the canvas. Working on monochromatic canvas and paper, his works reveal several layers of scripture superimposed onto one another to generate unreadable lines of text. While the text becomes indecipherable, the negative space in between suggests a symphony in what remains unsaid.Marcello Lo Giudice’s (b. 1957, Taormina, Sicily) canvases are structured by thick layers of pigment and coating, buried and reemerging under various phases of scratching, abrasions, removals and levels. Giving shape to the matte and inconsistent bodies of hue and material, his work brings attention to the cyclical alliance between man and matter.Pino Manos (b. 1930, Sassari, Italy) adhered to the Spatialism movement and was a great friend of Lucio Fontana, Marino Marini, and Augustino Bonalumi. His works are in several private and public collections in Italy and abroad. Three of his works feature in the Nelson Rockefeller collection in New York, USA.Umberto Mariani’s (b. 1936, Milan, Italy) recent works show a complex use of shadows using white and black drapery, his signature alphabet letters and embossed symbols, all signs of the dramatic, semantic ambiguity of a language that is not always decipherable. The method of drapery on the canvas constitutes intricate illusions of light and shadow, at once concealing and revealing what lies beneath.The exhibition will be on view from September 21 through October 10, 2017, at Opera Gallery, Hong Kong, W Place, 52 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong.For more details, visit: http://www.blouinartinfo.com/galleryguide/opera-gallery-hong-kong/overviewClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the artworks.
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