Tullio Pericoli. Lineamenti. Volto e paesaggio

Ara Pacis Museum
lungotevere in Augusta (angolo via Tomacelli) - 00100 Roma (RM)
Type: Contemporary Art

Time
From Tuesday to Sunday from 9 to 19
Admission allowed until 18 hours
(The end date shows could be a variation)

Information
060608 every day from 9.00 to 21.00 

 
Portraits as landscapes. And vice versa. The exhibition of Tullio Pericoli, "Outlines. Face and the landscape is a selection, edited by Federica Pirani, 53 large oil produced between 2007 and 2010 which examines the research on the portrait and landscape painting by the artist conducted Marches (born in Colli del Tronto in the province of Ascoli Piceno, and transferred to Milan in 1961) now well-known primarily as a draftsman and portraitist. "Me, I put the paint inside my pleasure to turn in painting the beauty of the world using the scratch drawing as old scars of a face, the grooves of the brush, wisdom pagination, the ability to read with her eyes stratifications and relationships found in nature, "says Danger.
The faces of the characters are combined with landscapes in a dialogue of signs, colors and features. Colors, materials, brown, ocher, gray rough digging canals, grooves etched as cuts.
When hazards paints portraits and landscapes, says the philosopher Remo Bode (one of the authors of the texts in the catalog), it is considered that in the portrait, as in the face, a maximum time coexists with a minimum of space, while the representation of landscape space cut, large enough, it contains a much longer time, which covers millions or even billions of years. That the faces and landscapes are "maps" that must be read and deciphered by the painter carefully to grasp the essential, to make them recognizable in their features, but apart from a perfect outward identity. Just as the age, including social conventions and the muscles under the skin change his face. Similarly, the earth's surface is changed by the passing of epochs, by human and tectonic forces, which alter with sudden upheavals, landscapes and fragments of effusive rocks fault Series Geologie (1972) or shape slowly the rolling hills of the Marches and Lazio in recent paintings.