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10/05/2012 | 12:00      08/07/2012 | 20:00
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Gio’ Pomodoro exhibition Taormina



 

Gio’ Pomodoro returns to Sicily with a new exhibition, 25 years after his 1987 personal exhibition at Palazzo dei Leoni in Messina. The master of abstract sculpture brings to the Land of Trinacria his sharp and personal stand on the Myth underlying the civilisations of the Mediterranean basin, from the Hellenic world to Magna Grecia.
 
His marble and bronze sculptures – some of great dimensions – and two large canvasses are deployed in the heart of Taormina’s international historical centre, between the Ancient Greek Theatre, the ex-cathedral San Francesco di Paola, the Duomo, Corso Umberto, Piazza IX Aprile and Palazzo Corvaja. These works take us on an ideal journey of exploration of the Greek Myth of Hermes, God of the Thieves, starting from a new interpretation of the Greek herma, a pillar of the research of this Marche-born artist. His works blend with history, with the antiquity of the locations, and project in the present the reflection of a flourishing past. The exhibition in Taormina also features two monumental fibreglass sculptures, restored for the occasion. Both sculptures are presented at the entrance of Naxos Archaeological Park.
 
Pomodoro was always deeply intrigued by classical sculptural archetypes, to which he has previously devoted important works such as his Hekateia, figures in torsion representing the female figure of Hekate. From the 1980s, he begins an in-depth investigation of Greek mythology. Drawing extensively and accurately on seminal studies such as Karoly Kerènyi’s Myths and Mysteries and Inni Omerici, edited by Filippo Cassola, Giò extrapolates his own personal interpretation of the myth of Hermes, to which he devotes an entire cycle of works (some of which are monumental), exhibited for the first time in April 1984 at the Stendhal Gallery in Milan, then in various personal exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
 
In one of his texts, published in the catalogue Koinos Hermes on the occasion of his exhibition at the Stendhal Gallery, he writes: “My intention was not to illustrate the Homeric hymn to Hermes through plastic forms, for which there is no need given the formal wealth of the hymn itself. Nor was I tempted to revisit the ghosts of antiquity on the shore of a dated Mediterranean nostalgia. I would have faced an indigestion of re-interpretations, as one typically leads to the other, bringing tedium to the art viewer and lover. Moreover, I would have sidetracked from the theme of Hermes. Maybe I was obsessed with the herma pillar and, in a way, I tried to escape from it by trying to recreate it in my own way, in front of my own eyes. But the hymn says of Hermes: “a little he profits, but continually throughout the dark night he cozens the tribes of mortal men”.
 
And Pomodoro, still obsessed with the pillar of the Greek herma, continues to bring the human presence into his sculptures by revisiting one of the most extraordinary mythologemes of antiquity.
 
Gio’ Pomodoro’s exhibition in Taormina does not celebrate the splendours of the past, but evokes the Myth in its most original and contemporary declination.
(source: www.ilmitocontemporaneo.it)
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Gio’ Pomodoro exhibition Taormina
  Gio’ Pomodoro returns to Sicily with a new exhibition, 25 years after his 1987 personal exhibition at Palazzo dei Leoni in Messina. The master of abstract sculpture brings to the Land of Trinacria his sharp and personal stand on the Myth underlying the civilisations of the Mediterranean basin, from the Hellenic world to Magna Grecia.   His marble and bronze sculptures – some of great dimensions – and two large canvasses are deployed in the heart of Taormina& May 10 , | 12:00 Jul 08 , | 20:00
Teatro Greco, Via Teatro Greco(ME) Taormina, ME 98039
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