Contemporary Art Museum – Villa Croce in Genoa
After the closure of the anthological exhibition at the Firmafede Fortress in Sarzana (October 24th 2015- January 10th 2016) a new single-subject exhibition has been inaugurated at Contemporary Art Museum – Villa Croce in Genoa, with works made between 1965 and 1967, when Francesco Vaccarone worked in Genoa with the Study Group.
In November 1965, at Carabaga Gallery in Genoa, the first national exhibition of Visual poetry was held, with works, among the others, of Balestrini, Bonito Oliva, Bueno, Giuliani, Isgrò, Kolar, Miccini, Ori, Pignotti, Porta, Spatola, Tola, Vaccarone, Vitone, Ziveri.
In the context of the exhibition of Contemporary Art Museum in Villa Croce (January 30th – March 6th 2016), the works of Francesco Vaccarone give an overview on a special creative moment which invested Italy and particularly Genoa during the Sixties, with vivid links between figurative art, poetry and music and a multidisciplinary approach in experimentating new languages.
The Genoese environment was in fact frequented by poets such as Edoardo Sanguineti, by composers such as Luigi Nono e Luciano Berio and by the writers of the group ’63.
The main publication, both at the Firmafede Fortress exhibition and at Villa Croce Museum, is the Annotated Catalogue about Francesco Vaccarone’s painting (works 1958-2015) published by Allemandi Publishing House in December 2015 and handled by Valerio Dehò.
In this publication the works of the two exhibitions are widely documented and provided with the interviews led by Valerio Dehò with the artist about his own creative periods.
The realization of these events has been handled by the Startè Association, presided over by Paolo Asti .
