The Palladian Basilica will host over 80 large-format images with hand-colored interventions that provide an analytical journey into theatricality in architecture, works by the artist Patrizia Mussa.
In her photographs, she employs a language that seems objective, characterized by the use of natural light, frontal view, and total focus, all inserted into a calibrated “narrative,” rational and crystalline. After capturing the view and producing the print on cotton paper, the artist intervenes with colored pastels to retrace the details, thereby marking a definitive distance from a merely photographic language to arrive in an artistic field yet to be named where the photographic act merges with the pictorial gesture.
From the Theater Olympico of Vicenza to the theaters of Sabbioneta and Parma, to La Scala in Milan, from the San Carlo Theater in Naples to La Fenice Theater in Venice, from the Regio Theater in Turin to the Argentina Theater in Rome, from the Pergola Theater in Florence to the Massimo Theater in Palermo, along with some architectures that testify to the “theatrical” vocation of certain Italian architecture, such as the Palladian Basilica, the Reggia di Venaria, that of Stupinigi, the Reggia di Caserta, Palazzo Grimani in Venice.
Finally, six new works will be exhibited in Vicenza: Piazza dei Signori in Vicenza, the Arena of Verona, the Procuratie of Venice, the Subalpine Parliament at Palazzo Carignano in Turin, and the Ara Pacis in Rome.
Opening on Friday 11th April from 2 PM. The Basilica Palladiana will be closed on Friday morning.
Closed on Mondays.
