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closed Pippo Oriani.

The show

The exhibition intends to present a selection of significant works of Pippo Oriani's activity, from the beginnings to the beginning of the 1970s, paying particular attention to the theme of masks and the Commedia dell'Arte that greatly influenced the artist's creative imagination. Prolific Italian painter, architect, interior decorator and publisher, Pippo Oriani fits into the artistic climate of the early twentieth century in a completely personal and peculiar way, defining a path that has been configured since the beginning as an expression of the desire to immerse himself in the heart of modernity , understood as aesthetic research renewed in ways and techniques and aimed at addressing the taste of the Italian society of the time in a global way. His continuous experimentation evidenced by the great creativity expressed in many areas, not excluding cinema, makes him a pioneer in every field, in line with the futurist idea of wanting to change the lifestyle in all its aspects. Enthusiastic, amused and entertaining, with a deep culture and a frequent visitor to Paris in the thirties, Oriani is one of the personalities who contributed to the Europeanization of Italian art in the first half of the twentieth century.
Braque, Picasso and Leger are Oriani's stylistic references in those formative years and in the works of these artists Oriani's indomitable imagination scrutinizes the elements to refer to, the compositional situations to be re-proposed, the themes and the iconographies. The types of masks, minstrels and clowns presented here play, dance, act, study the part. Oriani's is a universe where the conscience is lost among the colored squares of the harlequins and the white robes of the Pulcinella that stand out like clouds and swollen sails in the vortex of the colored and decorated planes. All the works on display are part of the Pippo Oriani Foundation. The only surviving part of the film Vitesse, shot by Oriani in 1933, rediscovered by Mario Verdone and Gabriele Oriani, will be screened for the duration of the exhibition, an important testimony of Italian participation in the European avant-garde cinema of the 1930s.

The inauguration, with free admission, is scheduled for Saturday 23 March at 5:30 pm in the Norman Room of the Swabian Castle of Bari.

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Piazza Federico II di Svevia 4
70122 Bari

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