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The show

The Luciana Matalon Foundation is pleased to host Gioni David Parra's personal exhibition, "The language of nature - Bladelight Concert", from 2 to 14 November 2023.

The exhibition proposes the urban art itinerary "Bladelight Concert" presented for the first time to the public in June 2023 in Porto Rotondo at the Marina and the Yacht Club. The places selected for this important exhibition are known for their founders: Count Luigi Donà dalle Rose in Porto Rotondo and the artist Luciana Matalon, a leading name in international contemporary art of the 70s.

Art becomes a universal language, accessible to a wide and cultured audience, and expresses values that are increasingly important today for the protection of the sea and the environment. The “Bladelight Concert” series created by Gioni David Parra, exclusively for Porto Rotondo and Milan, are blades of light sculpted in marble placed on iron plates painted with sea green, sky blue and sun gold, anchored on a base of travertine or white Carrara marble, finding their natural location in the territory of dolmens and menhirs. The most interesting challenge for the artist, who lives in Viareggio and works in Pietrasanta, a few kilometers from the Polvaccio quarries where Michelangelo Buonarroti extracted his marbles, is to take a thousand-year-old element such as stone and renew it to bring it into contemporaneity .

As Carlo Levi teaches us, states Gioni David Parra: «The future has an ancient heart». Stone and sculpture are protagonists of the foundation of Porto Rotondo, from the works of Andrea Cascella to those of Mario Ceroli, just to mention some works by illustrious names who contributed to the distinction of the Borgo; Parra's sculptures fit perfectly into the DNA of the place. With the urban art installation of the Marina di Porto Rotondo, Gioni David Parra's sculpture looks at spring elements and translates, through the artist's work, into a determining architectural and landscape element. The artist tries to bring the stone towards lightness, to make it more ethereal and spiritual. Parra is considered a conceptual sculptor who uses manual skills with a tension towards light. «My blades are linear elements, spiritual swords like those we find in Masaccio's painting of Saint Paul, in the San Matteo Museum in Pisa (where I was born), where the Saint has a sword in one hand and a sacred book in the other. They are ascending and descending elements with targeted interventions in gold leaf, which recall the Tuscan gold backgrounds of the 1300s and 1400s." According to Parra, art is a container of memories, because only through memory can we launch ourselves into renewal. The blades turn upwards, as if they dive deep: it is a metaphor for our life, because we too have ascended and descended.

Thus his “Bladelights” take shape by evoking ancient steles. We are faced with a sculpture experienced as a melee in the complexity of a nervous system that stretches its bows between sky and sea.

The event is promoted and organized by Circle Dynamic Luxury Magazine in collaboration with Cris Contini Contemporary .

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