Nico Vascellari MELMA

After the major exhibitions of Fabre, Penone, Gormley and Mattiacci, Forte Belvedere is once again entirely occupied by the work of a single artist with an unprecedented exhibition project designed for all its spaces, between the bastions overlooking Florence and the interior of the Renaissance Palazzina.

MELMA includes a selection of never-before-seen works conceived especially for this occasion and made with different media, such as video, sculpture, collage, installation and sound. On the outside of the Fortress, on the ramparts, nine sculptural works cast in aluminum will be installed in addition to two videos presented inside the “gunboats,” while the interior rooms will be occupied by an exhibition itinerary with over thirty works that, playing on very different registers, will offer a broad overview of Vascellari’s work focusing on the relationship between man and nature, existence and transcendence.

NICO VASCELLARI

One of the most interesting authors on the Italian and international art scene, Nico Vascellari (b. 1976, Vittorio Veneto) has been pursuing a research that addresses, since the beginning, different practices, from performance to sculpture, from installation to drawing, from video to sound exploration. Through an anthropological approach and gaze, his works analyze the relationship between man and nature, interweaving the personal and collective dimensions. References to the archaic world, rituals and folklore are mixed with underground aesthetics becoming the stylistic signature of a very defined and unique aesthetic language.

In 2005 he founded in Vittorio Veneto (Treviso) Codalunga, an evolving project born in the artist’s studio that has spread throughout Italy and abroad, hosting exhibitions, performances and experimental projects. Artists such as Charlemagne Palestine, Jimmy Durham, Enzo Cucchi, William Basinski, Black Dice, Arto Lindsay, Prurient, Ghedalia Tazartes, John Duncan, Banks Violette, Ari Marcopoulos, Mat Brinkman, and Diego Perrone have taken part in the project.

The exhibition at Fort Belvedere is free admission and open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Un ringraziamento particolare a Cristina Fogazzi che ha contribuito a rendere gratuito l’ingresso alla mostra per tutti i visitatori con un generoso supporto.

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