9 NOVEMBER – 22 DECEMBER 2024

Palazzo Montereale Mantica – Corso Vittorio Emanuele II Pordenone

INAUGURATION FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2024 starts at 6:00 PM

Opening hours:

Friday 5:00-7:30 PM
Saturday and Sunday 10:30-12:30 AM / 5:00-7:30 PM

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This new edition of Mosaicamente pays homage to an American author, Hopper, introverted, shy and reserved as those who knew and studied him tell us, first of all his wife, a painter too, who remembers him in a biography: “this evening Edward said that he is one who observes while I participate.”

Therefore, by his admission the artist is an observer of reality in which he however does not participate. What he sees he scrupulously records, leaving the viewer with the challenge of interpreting his apparently banal work made up of urban landscapes, interiors of houses where people are almost part of the furnishings. This new way of understanding and operating in the America of his time: the 20th century, left an indelible trace that influenced not only the painting of his contemporaries. He has been defined as the greatest American realist of the 20th century, but also other expressions artistic such as cinema and not only because Hopper portrayed cinema through the reproduction of practically empty cinemas, but because many directors and set designers drew inspiration from his works in the creation and setting of film images.

Wanting to give some indications to understand the artist’s work we can think of key words such as: solitude and light which mark his research and condition it.

In Hopper’s work and in his person we have found analogies with the peculiarities of the vision of the world and the gaze of our artists.

From this affinity of perspectives, mosaic works were born which, starting from Hopper, highlighted even more the details that were portrayed by him through a modern and in some ways “pop” use of the mosaic also based on the use of “waste material” brought to new life in the mosaics.

All in all, this exhibition is the result of the collective work of many and for the first time, in the panorama of exhibitions created at the Officina dell’Arte, it is also the result of the contribution of blind and visually impaired people who worked enthusiastically on the creation of a specific work.

The exhibition curators