Associazione culturale italo-giapponese
Via Marchese di Villabianca, 82 – 90143 Palermo Italy Tel/Fax +39 091307784
“GEOMETRY LIGHTS”
FOURTEEN ARTISTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL MADI MOVEMENT
Saturday 3rd September 2011 - Friday 23rd September 2011
Admission free
The Italian-Japanese cultural association NAMI and the Province of Trapani are pleased
to present the exhibition “Geometry Lights. Fourteen artists of the international MADI
movement.”
The goal of this exhibition is to drive Trapani to an international level thanks to the presence of
the MADI protagonists, both Italian and from other countries such as France, Spain, Hungary,
Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, United States and Japan, where this artistic and cultural movement
emerged.
The MADI - the international movement born in 1946 in Buenos Aires due to the work of
Carmelo Arden Quin - is appreciated in many parts of the world and keeps attracting much
public interest and new audiences.
Geometry, dynamism, interaction and colours are some of the prerogatives of Madi works of
art. Stylistically, they are characterized by a recreational chemistry and they are strongly
defined by a persistent pursuit of freedom.
As Laura Bica has remarked “What is striking about MADI is its aniconism and its idea of going
beyond the object to continue to the temporal dimension. MADI reveals an extreme freedom in
its shapes that deny themselves to create a dynamic collision-construction-deconstruction into
the space. Colours are merged into the space and, free of objectivity, they become themselves
space - a space made of geometry lights – that removes any shape or contour and that offers
chromatic messages to its audience.”
“Geometry Lights. Fourteen artists of the international MADI movement” provides an
exhaustive account of an historical movement that has strongly influenced the contemporary
art milieu from the 50s on thus involving a plethora of artists from any side of the world with a
strong cohesion.
“Geometry Lights. Fourteen artists of the international MADI movement” exhibition presents
the extraordinary artworks of Carmelo Arden Quin - 1913, Rivera (Uruguay) – 2010,
Savigny-sur-Orge (France); Bolivar - 1932, Salto (Uruguay); Jean Charasse - 1941,
Lapalisse, Allier (France); Franco Cortese - 1949, Giovinazzo, Bari (Italy); Reale Franco
Frangi - 1933, Milano (Italy); Sakae Hasegawa - 1930, Tokyo (Japan); Yumiko Kimura -
1961, Tokyo (Japan); Vincenzo Mascia – 1957, Santa Croce di Magliano, Campobasso
(Italy); Renato Milo - 1958, Napoli (Italy); Mitsuko Mori - 1944, Ashikaga (Japan);
Gianfranco Nicolato – 1938, Vimodrone, Milano (Italy); Marta Pilone - 1947, Portici –
Bellavista, Napoli (Italy); Satoru Sato - 1945, Ishinomori – Miyagi (Japan); Piergiorgio
Zangara - 1943, Palermo (Italy).
Associazione culturale italo-giapponese
Via Marchese di Villabianca, 82 – 90143 Palermo Italy
Tel/Fax +39 091307784
The exhibition is also accompanied by an illustrated book edited by Laura Bica with
contributions by Cristina Costanzo and Gaia Spitalieri. The exhibition curated by Cristina Costanzo is organized in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan in Italy.
For further information please visit:
www.madi-international.com
www.macla.laplata.gov.ar (cercare: Patrimonio- Obras del patrimonio-Collecion Madi)
www.madimuseum.org (cercare: Madi artists)
www.satorusato-artmuseum.jp (cercare: Collecion- Overseas Artists' Works)
www.mobil-madi.hu (cercare: Gyujtemeny)
www.sobral.ce.gov.br (cercare: Cidade - Museus - Museu Madi)
www.spaziolattuada.com (cercare: saletta Madi)
www.galleriamarelia.it (cercare: Madì)
www.magi900.com (cercare: Sala delle Eccellenze Madi)
Acknowledgements:
Ambasciata del Giappone in Italia
Galleria Monteleone – Palermo
Galleria MAReLIA – Bergamo
Galerie Aller Simple di Longjuemau – Paris
Planeta
Opening: 3rd September 2011, 6.30pm
Opening times: Monday-Friday, 9.00am-2.00pm
Monday and Wednesday afternoon, 3.30pm-5.45pm
Saturdays, 10.00am-1.00pm
For public information please call:
Palazzo della Vicaria
Via San Francesco d’Assisi 45 - 91100 – Trapani
Tel. 0923 806111 – 0923 806898 - 0923 806764
Fax. 0923 806 540 100
Cell. +39 333 31 31 792
www.provincia.trapani.it
Press Office:
Roberta Sichera, Cristina Costanzo
Cell. +39 333 31 31 792
e-mail: cristinacostanzo@gmail.com
e-mail: info@namionda.org