The City of Noto and Eduardo Secci gallery present
GARDENS
MARCO EUSEPI
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
PALAZZO TRIGONA
Noto, Siracusa, from July 9 to September 15, 2022
Opening: Saturday, July 9, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Free admission
Exhibition view, Gardens, Marco Eusepi, Palazzo Trigona, Noto, 2022, Photo Alfio Garozzo, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Eduardo Secci gallery, in collaboration with the City of Noto, is pleased to announce the solo show Gardens by Marco Eusepi, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, at Palazzo Trigona in Noto, Siracusa, from July 9 to September 15, 2022.
The five rooms hosting Marco Eusepi’s works were opened to the public on the occasion of his solo show after forty years. The artist himself chose this space of the early Eighteenth-Century Baroque palace for the intense dialogue it encourages with his paintings.
The exhibition - the second chapter that the gallery dedicates to the young Roman artist - brings together
paintings on canvas and paper in both small and large-scale formats.
Through an artist practice as antique as contemporary, Marco Eusepi proposes an intimate representation of nature and landscape linked to tradition, where the natural element is studied in its micro and macroscopic aspects, becoming a pretext for activating a metalinguistic reflection on painting. In his painting grammar, the surface turns into a formal deconstruction field in which the different levels merge, questioning the compositional hierarchies creating new material organisms.
Pier Paolo Pancotto is the curator of the Art Club exhibition Program of Villa Medici - French Academy in Rome.
Marco Eusepi (Anzio, Italy, 1991) lives and works in Rome. He earned a diploma in Painting in 2015 and Graphic Art in 2018 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. His solo and two person shows include Eduardo Secci, Firenze (2021); Cose Viste, Marco Eusepi - Sergio Sarra, SPAZIOMENSA, Rome (2021); Underpainting, Albert Van Dyck Museum, Schilde, Antwerp (2019). His works have been exhibited in several group shows: Materia Nova. Roma nuove generazioni a confronto, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome (2021); Ineffable Worlds, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong (2021); Opening Exhibition, SPAZIOMENSA, Rome (2020); Segno Contemporaneo, Dingyuan International Art Center, Beijing (2019); Academia Italia, VII Saint Petersburg International Cultural Forum, Saint Petersburg (2019); Hanji - works in paper, Korean Cultural Institute, Rome (2018); Masters Salon Painting, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (2017).
Exhibition view, Gardens, Marco Eusepi, Palazzo Trigona, Noto, 2022, Photo Alfio Garozzo, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Curatorial text by Pier Paolo Pancotto
As already noted on the occasion of his exhibition in Florence last year, Marco Eusepi (Anzio, Italy, 1991; he lives and works in Rome) “remains faithful to the tradition without falling into the manner or nostalgia of the past; naturally, without premeditation. In this lies his topicality. In fact, he appears to be able to belong to his own time while moving with ease within the codes that, historically, regulate the artistic discipline. He identifies them as not a limit imposed but a useful tool to translate the intentions of his work into universal terms. Thus, without resorting to any premeditated strategy, the harbinger of a response as immediate as ephemeral, he relies on the technical systems which, are always governing the pictorial and graphic research by identifying in them authentic adventure companions, capable, as much as others never, to explicit their own, personal exploration of reality; And, bending them to their aesthetic and intellectual needs, he renews the functions, updating them.
Eusepi studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. After graduating, he made his debut on the art scene and was the protagonist of a solo show at the Albert Van Dyck Museum in Schilde, Antwerp (2019), at the SPAZIOMENSA in Rome (2021), of which he is also one of the promoters, and at Eduardo Secci gallery in Florence (2021), among others. His paintings as well as his papers focus a large part of their attention on the study of nature, which is captured in both micro and macroscopic aspects. He is focused on the detail of a flower or the portion of a plant element and then he moves on to a vast view or a boundless landscape. In the same way, they are developed mainly in small and large-formats: except for rare exceptions, they do not cover half measures. This dichotomy, so evident on the iconographic and iconological level as well as physical, contrasted, on the contrary, a rather unique lexicon in which figuration and abstraction converge at the same time according to the poetics of the suspended artist, Indeed, in a constant polarization between emotion and memory, fleeting impression and assimilation of the real world”.
As in Florence, the works on display at Palazzo Trigona in Cannicarao in Noto are proof of this. They are small and large-format papers or paintings on canvas; the latter constitutes a novelty in the artist’s production, marking, in some way, a turning point that the project at Noto fully documents. The works, all dated between 2019 and 2022, have as subject landscapes or plant elements that “following a chromatic range now more faithful to the truth now more than fantasy, they emerge from the clear background of the paper with the same unruly speed with which they run, in the daily, the gaze and the heart of the artist. That, in summary, could be summed up as its operating system: relying on the rapidity of a pictorial gesture to return the immediacy of a sensation - mostly, aroused by nature - and thus make the viewers participate, sharing with them the perceptive experience that gave them origin; spontaneously, without resorting to any artifice, as well as, following the natural course of things, the event took place. In this sense, these flowers, these views take on an almost autobiographical character, given the intimate character that has determined them”.
The works are placed in the evocative rooms of a Baroque building, Palazzo Trigona in Cannicarao, fully integrated with them, as if they had always been there and, only today, revealed their presence. Many of them were conceived by the artist for the occasion and, together with the others, give rise to a sort of large installation that, without continuity, takes place in the palace emphasizing the environmental character that the pictorial syntax of Eusepi can generate.
Marco Eusepi, Untitled (Gardens), 2022, oil on canvas, 190 x 200 cm (74.8 x 78.7 in), Photo Giorgio Benni, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Marco Eusepi, Untitled (Flowered Garden), 2022, acrylic and oil on canvas, 150 x 190 cm (59 x 74.8 in), Photo Giorgio Benni, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Gardens - Marco Eusepi
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
Palazzo Trigona
Noto, Siracusa, from July 9 to September 15, 2022
Opening: Saturday, July 9, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Via Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour 93, Italy
Free admission
Hours: Thursday - Sunday, 6:00 - 10:00 pm
Visits by appointment: +39 3348842406
For more information: ai@eduardosecci.com
Solo show presented by the City of Noto and Eduardo Secci gallery.
Press Office for Eduardo Secci:
THE KNACK STUDIO / Tamara Lorenzi
tamara@theknackstudio.com / +39 347 0712934
info@theknackstudio.com / www.theknackstudio.com
The City of Noto and Eduardo Secci gallery present
GARDENS
MARCO EUSEPI
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
PALAZZO TRIGONA
Noto, Siracusa, from July 9 to September 15, 2022
Opening: Saturday, July 9, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Free admission
Exhibition view, Gardens, Marco Eusepi, Palazzo Trigona, Noto, 2022, Photo Alfio Garozzo, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Eduardo Secci gallery, in collaboration with the City of Noto, is pleased to announce the solo show Gardens by Marco Eusepi, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, at Palazzo Trigona in Noto, Siracusa, from July 9 to September 15, 2022.
The five rooms hosting Marco Eusepi’s works were opened to the public on the occasion of his solo show after forty years. The artist himself chose this space of the early Eighteenth-Century Baroque palace for the intense dialogue it encourages with his paintings.
The exhibition - the second chapter that the gallery dedicates to the young Roman artist - brings together
paintings on canvas and paper in both small and large-scale formats.
Through an artist practice as antique as contemporary, Marco Eusepi proposes an intimate representation of nature and landscape linked to tradition, where the natural element is studied in its micro and macroscopic aspects, becoming a pretext for activating a metalinguistic reflection on painting. In his painting grammar, the surface turns into a formal deconstruction field in which the different levels merge, questioning the compositional hierarchies creating new material organisms.
Pier Paolo Pancotto is the curator of the Art Club exhibition Program of Villa Medici - French Academy in Rome.
Marco Eusepi (Anzio, Italy, 1991) lives and works in Rome. He earned a diploma in Painting in 2015 and Graphic Art in 2018 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. His solo and two person shows include Eduardo Secci, Firenze (2021); Cose Viste, Marco Eusepi - Sergio Sarra, SPAZIOMENSA, Rome (2021); Underpainting, Albert Van Dyck Museum, Schilde, Antwerp (2019). His works have been exhibited in several group shows: Materia Nova. Roma nuove generazioni a confronto, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome (2021); Ineffable Worlds, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong (2021); Opening Exhibition, SPAZIOMENSA, Rome (2020); Segno Contemporaneo, Dingyuan International Art Center, Beijing (2019); Academia Italia, VII Saint Petersburg International Cultural Forum, Saint Petersburg (2019); Hanji - works in paper, Korean Cultural Institute, Rome (2018); Masters Salon Painting, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (2017).
Exhibition view, Gardens, Marco Eusepi, Palazzo Trigona, Noto, 2022, Photo Alfio Garozzo, Courtesy the artist and Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Curatorial text by Pier Paolo Pancotto
As already noted on the occasion of his exhibition in Florence last year, Marco Eusepi (Anzio, Italy, 1991; he lives and works in Rome) “remains faithful to the tradition without falling into the manner or nostalgia of the past; naturally, without premeditation. In this lies his topicality. In fact, he appears to be able to belong to his own time while moving with ease within the codes that, historically, regulate the artistic discipline. He identifies them as not a limit imposed but a useful tool to translate the intentions of his work into universal terms. Thus, without resorting to any premeditated strategy, the harbinger of a response as immediate as ephemeral, he relies on the technical systems which, are always governing the pictorial and graphic research by identifying in them authentic adventure companions, capable, as much as others never, to explicit their own, personal exploration of reality; And, bending them to their aesthetic and intellectual needs, he renews the functions, updating them.
Eusepi studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. After graduating, he made his debut on the art scene and was the protagonist of a solo show at the Albert Van Dyck Museum in Schilde, Antwerp (2019), at the SPAZIOMENSA in Rome (2021), of which he is also one of the promoters, and at Eduardo Secci gallery in Florence (2021), among others. His paintings as well as his papers focus a large part of their attention on the study of nature, which is captured in both micro and macroscopic aspects. He is focused on the detail of a flower or the portion of a plant element and then he moves on to a vast view or a boundless landscape. In the same way, they are developed mainly in small and large-formats: except for rare exceptions, they do not cover half measures. This dichotomy, so evident on the iconographic and iconological level as well as physical, contrasted, on the contrary, a rather unique lexicon in which figuration and abstraction converge at the same time according to the poetics of the suspended artist, Indeed, in a constant polarization between emotion and memory, fleeting impression and assimilation of the real world”.
As in Florence, the works on display at Palazzo Trigona in Cannicarao in Noto are proof of this. They are small and large-format papers or paintings on canvas; the latter constitutes a novelty in the artist’s production, marking, in some way, a turning point that the project at Noto fully documents. The works, all dated between 2019 and 2022, have as subject landscapes or plant elements that “following a chromatic range now more faithful to the truth now more than fantasy, they emerge from the clear background of the paper with the same unruly speed with which they run, in the daily, the gaze and the heart of the artist. That, in summary, could be summed up as its operating system: relying on the rapidity of a pictorial gesture to return the immediacy of a sensation - mostly, aroused by nature - and thus make the viewers participate, sharing with them the perceptive experience that gave them origin; spontaneously, without resorting to any artifice, as well as, following the natural course of things, the event took place. In this sense, these flowers, these views take on an almost autobiographical character, given the intimate character that has determined them”.
The works are placed in the evocative rooms of a Baroque building, Palazzo Trigona in Cannicarao, fully integrated with them, as if they had always been there and, only today, revealed their presence. Many of them were conceived by the artist for the occasion and, together with the others, give rise to a sort of large installation that, without continuity, takes place in the palace emphasizing the environmental character that the pictorial syntax of Eusepi can generate.
Marco Eusepi, Untitled (Gardens), 2022, oil on canvas, 190 x 200 cm (74.8 x 78.7 in), Photo Giorgio Benni, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Marco Eusepi, Untitled (Flowered Garden), 2022, acrylic and oil on canvas, 150 x 190 cm (59 x 74.8 in), Photo Giorgio Benni, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci, Florence, Milan
Gardens - Marco Eusepi
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
Palazzo Trigona
Noto, Siracusa, from July 9 to September 15, 2022
Opening: Saturday, July 9, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Via Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour 93, Italy
Free admission
Hours: Thursday - Sunday, 6:00 - 10:00 pm
Visits by appointment: +39 3348842406
For more information: ai@eduardosecci.com
Solo show presented by the City of Noto and Eduardo Secci gallery.
Press Office for Eduardo Secci:
THE KNACK STUDIO / Tamara Lorenzi
tamara@theknackstudio.com / +39 347 0712934
info@theknackstudio.com / www.theknackstudio.com
