The Marconi Foundation is pleased to present an exhibition by Aldo Spoldi entirely focused on a monumental work developing on the four-level exhibition space at 15 via Tadino; it is the painter's self-portrait running from the basement to the second floor and passing through the stairwell.
Spoldi wonderfully describes his poetics in a text saying that the idea of a big-sized painting of 16 metres has suddenly come to his mind after painting 9 canvases for the ship Costa Concordia.
For him the adventure of creating a work that no one will ever see as a whole was fascinating and worthwhile.
He thought in fact that, even though no visitors would see it with their eyes, they might see it with their minds.
In the end, this big-sized work is the representation of the painter and its title aims at giving a voice to the authors of all time.
Zeuxis is said to be the painter who died laughing. So, who better that he can represent this incredible plurality?
The stairwell, instead, is dedicated to the immortals: artists in general, Dracula, Zeuxis, God, the devil and... Apelles, the "par-excellence" artist.
Every work, in any historical epoch, is nothing but a self-portrait of its author, the painter concludes.
A selection of watercolours by Spoldi, portraying the characters of his imaginative world will be on display at the first and second floor of the exhibition space.
