The THIRD RENAISSANCE
Languages of hybrid sensitivity
Cureted by Angelo Cruciani, Carmelo Strano, Grace Zanotto
An idea by Famiglia Margini
On Saturday, July 17th 2010 at 6.30pm
Vernissage of the exhibition
and opening ceremony of ÀCAOS
PARTICIPATING Artists
Veronica BELLEI, Fabrizio BELLOMO, Emanuele BENEDETTI, Alda CASAL, Paolo
CASSARÁ, Michele CIACCIOFERA, Riccardo Cristina, Francesco DI LUCA, ERON, Juan
ESPERANZA, Andrea FRANCOLINO, Luigi GALASSO, Maurizio GALIMBERTI, Fabrizio
GARGHETTI, Fabio INVERNI, Nera KELAVA, Wilma KUN, Luca LILLO, Giuseppe
MASTROMATTEO, Gamal MELEKA, Salvatore MELILLO, Beatrice MORABITO, Claudio
ONORATO, Max PAPESCHI, Lia PASCANIUC, Erika PATRIGNANI, Luca REFFO, Jorge
ROMEO, Ruggero ROSFER, Alberto SCODRO, Fratelli SCUOTTO, Gabor SZOKE, Anan
TZUCKERMAN, Marilena VITA, Christian ZANOTTO, Massimo ZERBINI
The exhibition is set up on the premises of ÀCAOS, the Norman Castle (XI century) and the nearby
Russo Palace, which is also under protection. The manor house leans out over the sea from a cliff
and looks towards Africa on the one hand and Mount Etna on the other. Just in Aci Castello there
are volcanic rocks which originated in the undersea environment 500 or 600 thousand years ago. It
is not a coincidence that we talk of “Pre-Etnean Gulf”, exalted also by the “Pillows” (spherical lava
pillow blocks). Inside the castle there has been set up an ethno-paleontological civic museum. The
context tells of myths (the rocks thrown by Polyphemus against Ulysses and his own fellows) and
of literary history: Aci Trezza, where Verga set his “Malavoglia”; the Medlar House holds ethno-
anthropological finds and photographic materials of the film “The earth trembles”, where Luchino
Visconti, in 1947, told the events of the novel.
THE EXHIBITION
The Third Renaissance: a possibility of evolution for the artistic language, expressed by a list of
current artists who, using various expressive media, are trying to find again the meaning of existing.
They are creative artists who, through paths of “deviance”, reflect the need to move on ahead
toward the retraining of the values of Beauty and Goodness. Values that are morphologically and
conceptually chameleonic, because they insist on the contamination originated from the migrant
stratifications. The values of Beauty and Goodness, and their Greek matrix, find in Sicily their
natural ground. So they become magnetic poles of the energy flow belonging to a triangle of land
between the seas whose symbol is the Trinacria, symbol of dynamic languages and cultural graft.
The Margini Family Association, which is committed to being an active part in the new growing
age (Angelo Cruciani and Grace Zanotto belong to the management), tries to contribute to create
a future that goes beyond the crisis and the emotional disorientation. A nomadic project for
constitution and itinerant, too (it will continue in other cities, even abroad).
The works in the Exhibition stir up the principle of participation, even in a social sense, “able
to arouse energetic tangles with the other and open door elsewhere. Only the courage of
reconnaissance will manage to seed the utopia of a still possible agreement with the Planet Earth
A collaboration between
Organization : Famiglia Margini, Milan. www.famigliamargini.com
famigliamargini@gmail.com Telephone 0255199449
and the Civic Gallery of Aci Castello
Norman Castle – ÀCAOS Contemporary Art Civic Gallery
Aci Castello – Catania, from July 17th to October 10th 2010
Under the patronage of: Sicily Region, Province of Catania, Ministry of Heritage and Cultural
Inauguration: on Saturday, July 17th 2010 at 6.30pm
Open: from Tuesday to Sunday (including holidays) from 9.00am to 1pm and from 4pm to 8pm
Address: Piazza Castello – c/o- Castello Normanno, via Savoia 32
Info: Cristina Valastro – info@acaosgallery.com; dir@acaosgallery.com; telephone 095_271026
Web site: www.terzorinascimento.org; www.acaosgallery.com;
Organization: Famiglia Margini Cultural Association
www.famigliamargini.com; famigliamargini@gmail.com;
phone 02_55199449 – 328141308
and Civic Gallery of Aci Castello. Àcaos, Contemporary Art Civic Gallery of Aci Castello;
Catalogue in the exhibition.
Press office: Ada Tullo – tulloada@hotmail.it; 349_2674900
Date :
17-07-2011
Location :
Contemporary Art Gallery, Municipality of Aci Castello (Italy)
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