![Laboratorio Saccardi, <i>Oggi la nostra terra è degenerata ci sono segni che stia rapidamente avvicinandosi alla sua fine</i>, olio su tela 200x150cm, 2015, courtesy galleria Poggiali e Forconi Laboratorio Saccardi, <i>Oggi la nostra terra è degenerata ci sono segni che stia rapidamente avvicinandosi alla sua fine</i>, olio su tela 200x150cm, 2015, courtesy galleria Poggiali e Forconi](/content/dam/domusweb/en/news/2015/12/19/galleria_poggiali_e_forconi_logo/domus-01-logo.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
The artists, who have seen each other over recent months and have set up a lively intellectual exchange, met on the evening of Friday 4 December for an extempore debate. At this closed-door meeting they discussed and decided upon the common topic to inspire the creation by each artist of an original work in the same format, which will then be displayed at the exhibition from 19 December. The artists created the works on 5, 6 and 7 December: during these three days Beninati, Cucchi and Laboratorio Saccardi worked in close contact in the gallery spaces in Florence, which also was opened to the public, allowing the spectators to be involved in the creation and realisation of the works and in the artistic exchange between the protagonists. “Logo” is a new form of symposium, an attempt to rediscover the central role of a tangible exchange of ideas. It is also a revaluation of the concept of the gallery as a workshop and of the active exchange with the public. Hence the idea of collecting the visitors’ assessments – by means of a form that will be available throughout the exhibition – of their favourite work among the three created in the days prior to the opening.
Also on show there will be around thirty works on canvas specially selected by the artists, and arranged in a display itinerary unwinding through the main premises of the gallery in via della Scala and in the project room in via Benedetta. More specifically, here Enzo Cucchi will present the Van Gogh series and Manfredi Beninati the series of works produced over the last year. For the Laboratorio Saccardi the show will represent a further step in the intellectual and artistic exchange, which they initiated with Cucchi during the double solo show with the Maestro at the GAM in Palermo (Sicily) in 2014. It also offers the opportunity to display new works based on the practice of painting that leverage themes of the grotesque and cognitive bewilderment.
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December 19, 2015 – March 20, 2016
opening saturday December 19, 6.00 pm
Logo
Galleria Poggiali e Forconi
via della Scala, 35/A, Firenze
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