Esposizione Triennale di Arti Visive a Roma
1-15 december 2023

The Triennale di Arti Visive in Rome will take place at the “Musei di San Salvatore in Lauro” of the Pio Sodalizio dei Piceni – Piazza San Salvatore in Lauro, 15 – in the very heart of the historical centre, near Via dei Coronari and Piazza Navona. The “Musei di San Salvatore in Lauro”, located at one of the liveliest crossroads in Rome, is within easy walking distance of Castel Sant’Angelo, San Luigi dei Francesi and Palazzo Madama. Among the notable exhibitions held at the venue that will host the Triennale, we can mention: ‘Visions of the Grand Tour from the Hermitage’ promoted by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Activities, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Pio Sodalizio dei Piceni and Cigno GG Edizioni; ‘Luciano Ventrone: The Victory of Painting with de Conciliis, Guccione and Guttuso’ organised by Cigno GG Edizioni; the exhibit on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the sculptor Francesco Messina, sponsored by the Committee for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, the École Française de Rome, the Chamber of Deputies and the Municipality of Rome.
Emilio Greco, Francesco Messina, Umberto Mastroianni, Tahar Ben Jelloun, and Mimmo Paladino are only a selection of the artists who have had and continue to have, an ongoing collaboration with the Monumental Complex of San Salvatore in Lauro, either through their own will or that of their heirs. Alongside the etching presses used by Marino Marini, Giacomo Manzù, Hans Hartung, Emilio Vedova, Matta, and Piero Guccione stand the works of Emilio Greco and Umberto Mastroianni as the exhibition venue features donations and permanent galleries of these illustrious international sculptors.

Topic

The poetics of difference in the pursuit of a new Humanism

The 2023 edition will reason on the concepts of difference and finesse, addressing them from the point of view of each artist and aiming to reveal – through a personal biographical memory – the most intimate profile of individual existence and the relevance of relationships. Fears, monsters, miracles, hopes and eureka moments will be those personal experiences capable of generating new energetic circuits. The main conceptual line of the exhibition intends to evoke the utopian tension and expressive freedom that permeates the philosophy of the prominent critic Harald Szeemann. The latter, proceeding from the romanticized biography proper to artists, transposed it as a basis for universal knowledge, paying attention to utopia, obsession and visionariness. In this way, he aimed to safeguard the finesses of those experiences – their subtleties, delicacies, differences – that are in danger of being fatally The 2023 edition will reason on the concepts of difference and finesse, addressing them from the point of view of each artist and aiming to reveal – through a personal biographical memory – the most intimate profile of individual existence and the relevance of relationships. Fears, monsters, miracles, hopes and eureka moments will be those personal experiences capable of generating new energetic circuits. The main conceptual line of the exhibition intends to evoke the utopian tension and expressive freedom that permeates the philosophy of the prominent critic Harald Szeemann. The latter, proceeding from the romanticized biography proper to artists, transposed it as a basis for universal knowledge, paying attention to utopia, obsession and visionariness. In this way, he aimed to safeguard the finesses of those experiences – their subtleties, delicacies, differences – that are in danger of being fatally

Curator

The curator of the 2023 edition of the exhibit is Stefania Pieralice. Graduated in Law with honours and already curator of the Guatemala National Pavilion at the 56. International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale and of the same Pavilion at the 16. Venice Biennale – Architecture, she has been the Art Director of contemporary art exhibitions held in prestigious institutional venues. She has chaired international award juries and important institutional art conferences, including the ones in 2016/2018 at the Press Room of the Chamber of Deputies and in 2019 at the Senate of the Italian Republic. Since 2017, she has held the position of Editorial Manager of the annual “Atlante dell’Arte Contemporanea”. In 2022 she co-authored the novel “Come passeri sui cavi,” nominated for the Strega Prize.

“Art is the last way where poetry, communion, song arrives.
No man’s land where everyone’s life is located.
It is with art that miracles come true” (Stefania Pieralice)

RUFA - Rome University of Fine Arts

Official partner of the Triennale di Arti Visive in Rome 2023

RUFA, Rome University of Fine Arts, is a multidisciplinary and international didactic Centre – officially recognised by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR) – that offers educational courses in the fields of Art, Design, Audiovisual, Fashion, Game, Visual Communication and Media Arts. Founded in 1998 by Master Alfio Mongelli, the RUFA educational programme includes first and second-level academic courses as well as first-level academic masters. The educational approach is based on a distinctive and specialised teaching method which aims at combining the university curriculum with professional training through the inclusion in the teaching staff of professionals from the diverse fields of the arts and by focusing on a theoretical-practical approach that aims at the contamination between contemporary artistic languages, transversality, research and experimentation.