{"id":516,"date":"2023-11-21T17:55:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemello.it\/esposizioni\/"},"modified":"2024-02-07T15:04:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T14:04:50","slug":"esposizioni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemello.it\/en\/esposizioni\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibitions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sala d\u2019Arme di Palazzo Vecchio Aprile 2023<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n \n\n \"\"\n\n \n Some paintings in Sala d’Arme \n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n\n \"\"\n\n \n Inauguration of the exhibition. From left Iacopo Vigevani, Luciana Frilli, Alessia Bettini (Deputy Mayor), Emanuele Calabrese Ioppolo.\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n \n \n
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The exhibition \u2018Gianfranco Mello, La Luce e il Colore\u2019 represented a true journey into Mello\u2019s pictorial universe through eleven paintings, true frescoes on canvas, testifying to a technique honed after years of intense and continuous work.
\nVenetian but Florentine by adoption, from a very young age it was in our city that Mello took his first steps in art until he was able to establish himself and fully express his wonderful vocation.
\nIt was therefore dutiful that in our city, in the civic home of the Florentines, we had the opportunity to recount his precious artistic experience.
\nHis works speak to us of a poetics of suggestion and study and of a highly refined technique that is well expressed in these eleven modern frescoes.
\nMello\u2019s relationship with nature is exceptional, resulting in vivid and evocative paintings, a courtly but at the same time thoroughly modern brushstroke. His is an outstanding artistic personality that has been able to depict the beauty of Florence and the Tuscan landscape at its best.
\nIt was a source of pride for us to host this exhibition in Palazzo Vecchio, curated by the Mello Foundation , which is itself a treasure trove of beauty to be discovered.<\/p>\n

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Alessia Bettini<\/strong>
\nDeputy Mayor and Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Firenze
\nFlorence, July 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

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DEAR GIANFRANCO<\/strong>,
\nThe unshakable faith in your work has brought us until here.
\nThink, we are in the Sala d’Arme of Palazzo Vecchio which we have visited so many times together, and this room practically intact since 1425 and above which rests the Salone dei Cinquecento, today it houses your paintings.
\nThousands of people watched, rejoiced, thought, photographed, carried on the world the image of your paintings and of the Veneto-Toscana culture they are permeated with.
\nTogether with many dear people I made my dream come true.
\nThanks forever Gianfranco.<\/p>\n

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LUCI April, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n\n \"\"\n\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n\n \"\"\n\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n \n\n

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Venetian by origin and Florentine by adoption, Mello is exhibiting recent large-scale paintings in this evocative Renaissance space. With a quote chosen as the exhibition’s subtitle that reads, “Art does not have to be ugly to seem intelligent.”
\nA few faces blurred in memory, but mostly landscapes, the light-flooded, flower-filled, citrus-scented countryside of a land “full of grace,” the city with its Dome, terraces overlooking the rooftops of Florence, a prayer of beauty and peace suffused with colors and silent atmospheres.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n \n\n

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Basilica di San Marco 1998<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n \n\n \"\"\n\n <\/div>\n \n \n
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O cypress of my homeland, dark as my soul, closed and gloomy as my soul!
\nCypress that the wind shakes without opening you and the sun shines without warming you.
\nCypress that you keep hidden the trunk
\nAs the body hides the spirit
\nCypress that winter chills but
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\nCypress of my homeland, master, friend, my brother, teach me something of your stern wisdom, give me something of your silent strength.<\/p>\n

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Giovanni Papini\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n \n\n

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The painting <The Camellia of the Garden of Palazzo Graziani> displayed in the Cloister of Arnolfo of the Basilica of Santa Croce was given to Ms. L.J. of Chicago -Usa- for the charity auction held in Chicago by URBAN GATEWAYS.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n \n\n

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In appearance magniloquent and sumptuous, in reality intriguing and subtle, introverted and even shy the solo exhibition of Franco Mello’s “recent paintings,” which the Cloisters of the Basilica of Santa Croce hosted from April 11 to May 15, immediately explicating already in its subtitle, Time of Death and Resurrection, the mixture and the secret yeast.<\/p>\n

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Galleria F.lli Alinari 1974<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n \n\n \"\"\n\n \n Solo exhibition – Messrs. Irma and Bruno Mello\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n\n \"\"\n\n \n Solo exhibition – from left Mello, Prof. N.R.A. Vroom and sculptor Marcello Tommasi\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n \n\n
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Philadelphia-Usa- 1971 – Drexel University<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n \n\n \"\"\n\n \n Philadelphia 1971 \u2013 Mr Mozino- Villanova University, Mello, Prof. Mercia Grassi, Mr. Dr. Carlo Leteri.\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n\n \"\"\n\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n\n\n \n \n\n \n