SERGIO MONARI. Synchronies, Exhibition Fortuny Palace, Venice

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SERGIO MONARI. Synchronies

From 26 February to 5 May 2025

Fortuny Palace

San Marco 3958, , Venice

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Sergio Monari's artistic investigation touches on the complexity of Greco-Roman classicism. His sculptures, in fact, stand as critical reinterpretations of contemporary society, taking as a model that classical ideal which, although not devoid of flaws, held beauty as the supreme ideal, as the goal of a civil journey marked by coherence and spirituality, and which found in myth a reference both spiritual and social, its function being that of a bridge between lived experience and the order of the cosmos. Monari questions the importance of myth in the construction of social institutions, not devaluing it in itself but, on the contrary, attacking the contemporary society's inability to recognize its significance. Poetry, love, glory, war, destiny, time, vanity, death take shape in a sort of ancient yet always new novel, through a staging that unfolds, work after work, in chapters shaped in the form of human likenesses, impulses, aspirations, doubts, and fears. A "human comedy" made of statues that are alive in their narrative strength, characters immortalized in the three-dimensionality of bronze. Through this narrative, the ground floor of the Fortuny Museum transforms into a theatrical stage that spans through the ages by virtue of a sculpture made of gazes and words, which are perceived as sharp and provocative, passionate and poetic together, a sculpture possessing a narrative charge capable of igniting drama before the observer's eyes. Despite their conflictuality, Monari's sculptures reveal the urgency of a recovery of the spiritual dimension, and in virtue of this, they offer themselves to the observer as fleeting hierophanies, fleeting revelations of that sacredness that once belonged to the individual. Monari's presence at Palazzo Fortuny, therefore, emphasizes the need to strengthen and update the dialogue with that Greco-Roman culture that is the founding root of our society. Through his work, one can rediscover its modernity, just as it happened with Mariano Fortuny who, with his iconic garments and the decorative motifs of his printed fabrics, translated values and symbols of classical antiquity into a contemporary and timeless language.

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monday	24:00 - 24:00
tuesday	Closed now
wednesday	10:00 - 18:00
thursday	10:00 - 18:00
friday	10:00 - 18:00
saturday	10:00 - 18:00
sunday	10:00 - 18:00

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