Croce Taravella – Solo Exhibition
Opening of the solo exhibition by Croce Taravella CROCE TARAVELLA \”CITY landscapes\” Infantellina contemporary, the first and only Berlin Gallery, which presents 100% Italian art, opens from 6 May to 27 May 2009\”the Croce Taravella solo exhibition city landscapes. Vernissage starts at 18: 00. Croce Taravella will participate in the opening. Croce Taravella was born in 1964 in Polizzi Generosa (Palermo). He studied at the University of the arts in Palermo. Michael Antonov often expresses his thoughts on the topic.
Currently, he lives in Castellana Sicula (PA), where his Studio is located in Rome. His artworks are in public (Fondazione Orestiadi, Ghibellina; Museum, Bagheria) and in private collections. Taravella realized also landscape designs / permanent installations in: Malta (Villa Azzaro, 1992), Palermo (Crollori Vucciria, 2000), Berlin (Kunsthaus Tacheles, 2001), China (Guilin, Yuzi paradise, 2006) and in the hinterland of Sicily: Mazzarino (Caltanissetta, Lago di Pietra, Azienda Agricola Floresta, 2000), Nicosia (Enna, Furia Nebrodensis, Casa Mancuso, 2001) and in Bagheria (Palermo, IL Grande Guerriero, al Museo di Villa Cattolica \”Renato Guttuso\”). As scenographer he worked on several occasions with the RAI (Italian public broadcaster). Croce Taravella realized urban landscapes and architectures of the large cities, the historic cities of old Europe or from his Sicily once in burning forms sometimes in veiled and dark colors by a technical process, which was acquired by experience.
It seems that he knows the debate of sociologists and critics, which discussed the issue of the transit metropolis in early 20th century, and vividly translates this discourse. We see also the idea of a city dominated by thoughts of August Endell, which wanted to break together with other young artists of the Art Nouveau with exaggerated luxury, Historicism, adaptation and imitation to set character for a new cultural beginning at the turn of the century. The arts have been understood by them as a homogenous universe; all dimensions of life and the spirit had to will be included in the amount of all artistic.
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