The San Francesco Museum Complex hosts the works of four artists: Annie Hsiao-Ching Wang and Karen Hui-Yu Lo, originally from Taiwan, and the Italians Frank Dituri and Mauro Manetti. The themes they address are, on the one hand, female identity and family conflict, and on the other, the transcendental dimension. Toward a poetic horizon.
The San Francesco di Montefalco Museum Complex hosts the exhibition "Conflicts & Identity" for the first time in Italy, featuring works by four artists, two from Taiwan and two from Italy: Annie Hsiao-Ching Wang and Karen Hui-Yu Lo, Frank Dituri, and Mauro Manetti.
The exhibition opens on Saturday, July 5th, at 6:00 pm, and is promoted by the Municipality of Montefalco in collaboration with Maggioli Cultura e Turismo, and supported by the Taiwan Ministry of Culture, the Taiwan Content Plan, the Hualien Region - Cultural Affairs Bureau, and Good Underground Art Space.
The exhibition was shown last February at the Zhongshan Hall Museum in Taipei, Taiwan, and was a resounding success.
The two Taiwanese artists, Annie Hsiao-Ching Wang and Karen Hui-Yu Lo, explore the themes of female identity and family conflict from a postmodern perspective.
Both artists emphasize autobiographical content through their photographic works, fragments of life immersed in the contradictory beauty of reality, made up of people, situations, places, desires, impulses, and imagination. This awareness through images is not closed in on itself, but presents itself to the camera in its objective physicality and emotional substance, observed from a female perspective.
Italian artists Frank Dituri and Mauro Manetti, by contrast, eschew the quotidian and the banal. They therefore work toward a more poetic horizon and seek a transcendental dimension through their works, a component they feel is missing in contemporary art.
Dituri creates a poetry of place, engaging with sacred spaces and creating photographic works of great fascination, wrapped in a suspended time. Manetti creates a poetry of time and sign, evoking in the complex stratification of his works a return to reason and faith, to a sense of existence that is not satisfied with materialistic consumption as the sole horizon.
The artistic direction of the exhibition at the Museo San Francesco in Montefalco is by Massimiliano Poggioni.
The catalog accompanying the exhibition includes a critical essay by David A. Lewis, art critic and professor of Art History at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA), Texas.
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