All for Vaccarone. The city pays homage to the Master.
The anthological exhibition by Francesco Vaccarone, dedicated to the career of the La Spezia painter, opened its doors yesterday afternoon at the Center of Modern and Contemporary Art in La Spezia.
A vernissage in grand style, with hundreds of citizens present and a dutiful opening, through the words of the authorities and of those who have worked in recent months for the success of this event. Which is already a success given the premises.
Introducing an excited Cinzia Aloisini, president of the institution for cultural services, who explained the significance of an event so important for art but also for the history of modern La Spezia, the one rebuilt after the Second World War.
The mayor of La Spezia Massimo Federici thanked the sponsors and spoke of Francesco Vaccarone as “a great interpreter of the social tensions and changes that have affected the fifty years of his work. The city can only pay homage to him for all his work. “.
Paolo Asti, producer and sponsor with his Startè, focused attention on the meaning of an exhibition that contaminates our daily life with Vaccarone’s creativity: “Attending art – concluded Asti – helps to live better”.
Then the word was passed to the same painter who wanted to recall an anecdote that could be the beginning of all this: “Two years ago the mayor Federici, on the occasion of the inauguration of an exhibition in Rapallo, invited me to do something important to Camec. I accepted and asked him for two years: I would say that the promise is kept “.
Then it was the turn of Paolo Valerio Cremolini, curator of the exhibition itself, to briefly outline its contents and accompany those present on the exhibition journey.
Several personalities of the city did not want to miss the appointment: from the prefect Giuseppe Forlani, to the president of the province Marino Fiasella, but also the engineer Amedeo Lia, the writer Arrigo Petacco, the president of the Carispezia Foundation Matteo Melley, the art historian Enzo Di Martino.
FABIO LUGARINI – Città della Spezia
The exhibition will remain open until March 19, 2012 (from Tuesday to Saturday 10-13 / 16-19, Sunday and holidays 11-19; closed on Mondays, Christmas and 1 January)
