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exhibition dedicated to Venetian artist Croce Caravella – collateral
event of 51. Biennale of Art of Venice – aims at
visualize synergic contrasts in his dream-like urban vision and desert-like
representation of natural places. Colours, sings, streaks, furrows, magma
and material, all spread together, cast on canvas surface their own belonging
and territoriality, giving birth to a new, different, total language.
It’s a kind of volcanic translation of a vast, chaotic, frenetic
reality on one side, and of a still, empty one, presented by connections
between city and nature features of his abstract opera. These two realities,
apparently so opposite, meet together and seem to be feed by the same
power.
Croce
Taravella was born in 1964
in Polizzi Generosa (Palermo). He lives and works between Centro Madonita
di Castellana Sicula (Pa), where his atelier is situated, Palermo and
Rome.
Croce
Taravella is definitely Sicilian contemporary artist most famous at
the moment. He realized lots of exhibition all over the world
(Sydney, Barcellona, Berlino, Bregenz, Parigi). Besides painting and
sculpture, he’s active with “total installations”
(e.g. Tacheles in Berlin, Vucciria, Mazzarina, ect…). In Parco
d’Arte della Kalsa, fro example, Taravella uses a huge pump to
paint a massive structure in Piazza Maggiore.
Private and public (e.g. Fondazione Orestiadi, Gibellina; Museum, Bagheria)
collections contains his works.
go
to Croce Taravella official web site
go to 51. Biennale of Art of Venice
official web site
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opening time: 10.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m. (closed on monday) |
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CROCE
TARAVELLA MDC PROJECT
Cities, their futures, their symbolic power, today are centre of a debate,
embracing architecture, urban planning, cinema, literature and policy.
We learned how towns may rise - as for Umberto Boccioni’s utopia
of the beginning of 20th Century - but also fall – thinking about
2000 New York. There’s no better way than painting to catch and
represent a scenery that otherwise is reproduced only by anonymous mass
video-production, unable to witness details and change. It’s already
few years that Croce Taravella gives voice to that big topic, The Painted
City, emphasizing this subject’s power on painters’ imagination.
His project is gigantic, massive, geographically adventurous: a special
kind of worldwide investigation about soul and flesh of places.
First al
all, he identifies and shows Metropolis as a sort of multicoloured skin
of the world. And only the violent but free gesture of painting - in artist’s
opinion - seems to capture energy, to catch that inexhaustible stream
of action, movement, thought, fear, desire that cross our civilization.
Taravella explores vacant areas of the Earth – Deserts - thinking
about them as large zones of decompression and purification, where nothing
reveals itself as fullness and eye and mind restore contact with real
human essence.
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| PERSONAL
EXHIBITIONS
1987. Santi Martiri, Bologna, Galleria Neon, (presentazione G.
La Rosa);
1988. Santi Martiri, Palermo , Galleria Voltaire, (presentazione
D. Filaccia);
1989. Un pensiero per non dormire, Palermo, Il Labirinto;
1990. Croce Taravella, Polizzi Generosa, Palazzo Caruso, Associazione
Culturale Naftolia, a cura di E. di Stefano (pieghevole);
1991. Croce Taravella, Palermo, Galleria La Tavolozza, a cura
di S. Troisi
1992. La croce di Croce, Palermo, Palazzo Rammacca, a cura dell’Associazione
Mondotondo;
1993.
Croce Taravella, Torino, Galleria VSV, a cura di E. Di Mauro;
Polaroid, Venezia, Palazzo Sforza, a cura dell’Associazione Arte
Contemporanea e Moderna;
1994. La Vucciria vent’anni dopo, Palermo, Galleria La
Tavolozza, a cura di S. Troisi (catalogo); un esempio da non seguire,
Milano, Studio Ready-Made;
1995.
Croce Taravella, Palermo, Palazzo Steri, a cura di E. di Stefano
(catalogo);
Il cielo di lamiera, Opere di Croce Taravella, Mazara del Vallo,
Centro Polivalente – Ex Collegio dei Gesuiti, Orestiadi di Ghibellina
’95, XIV edizione, a cura di E. di Stefano (catalogo);
1997;
Partita doppia. Guido Baragli, Croce Taravella, Palermo, Galleria
61, a cura di E. di Stefano (catalogo);
Carne, Palermo, Palazzo Rammacca, a cura dell’Associazione Mondotondo;
1999. Croce Taravella, Bregenz (Austria), Künstler-Aller-Art,
a cura di Jürgen Weishäupl;
2001.
Croce Taravella. Viaggio in Sicilia, Marsala, Ex Convento del
Carmine, a cura di S. Troisi (catalogo);
Croce Taravella. Viaggio in Sicilia, Palermo, Galleria 61 (presentazione
di S. Troisi);
Croce Taravella, Paesaggi siciliani, Milano, Studio Ready-Made;
Croce Taravella, Beton, Berlino, Tacheles, a cura di E. di Stefano
(giornale-catalogo);
Croce Taravella, Cefalù (Pa), Kulturforum;
Gli occhi di Croce, Castellana Sicula (Pa), villa Padura;
2002.
Croce Taravella. Travels in Sicily, Melbourne, Goya Galleries, a
cura di T. Sheperd;
Croce Taravella. Palermo, Palermo, Loft di Alessandro Leone in
via Sammuzzo;
2003.
Croce Taravella. Viaggio in Sicilia, Mosca, Galleria Beleyevo,
a cura di F.P. Mulinelli (catalogo);
Croce Taravella, Melbourne, Amsterdam, Galleria Witlov, a cura
di F.P.Mulinelli (catalogo);
Croce Taravella, Briganti, Polizzi Generosa, Palazzo di città
– Ex Carcere mandamentale circondariale, a cura di F.P.Mulinelli
(catalogo);
Croce Taravella, Sidney, Galleria Stephen Miles;
2004.
Croce Taravella, Madrid, Ajuntamento de Madrid, Centro Cultural
Buenavista, a cura di F.P.Mulinelli;
Opere 1983/2004, Museo d’arte contemporanea “Renato
Guttuso” Villa Cattolica Bagheria, a cura di Eva Di Stefano;
Archelologie industriali, Galerie Marie De Holmskj, Parigi, a
cura di Francesco Paolo Mulinelli;
Archeologie industriali, Galerie Bortier, Bruxelles, a cura di
Francesco Paolo Molinelli;
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