The Marconi Foundation is delighted to present an exhibition by Adriano Altamira Attraverso il Giudizio – Opere e meditazioni sulla Cappella Sistina 1997-2007.
This is Adriano Altamira's third solo show at Giorgio Marconi's exhibition space.
The first two exhibitions (respectively in 1979 and 1989) included photographs and drawings, executed with special techniques; actually, most of Altamira's works are focused on the study of new media.
Altamira has employed painting only twice: at the beginning of the Eighties with the series of his big-sized Finestre (1980-1986 ca.) and in the last ten years with his meditation on the Giudizio by Michelangelo.
In a series of large works on paper displayed at the Marconi Foundation, Altamira has conducted a curious pictorial speculation starting from the architectural composition of Michelangelo's great fresco, turning it into a purely abstract formal possibility; at first, in black and white, then using range of colours suggesting an intentional and refined mannerism – like gold, silver and some other iridescent and metallic hues.
In these works the Giudizio has lost its traditional value of sacred representation in order to become a tragic imprint, as if it were the secular shroud of a human adventure pushing the boundaries of possibility.
