There Civic Museums Foundation of Venice presents Synchroniesan exhibition by the sculptor Sergio Monari at the Fortuny Museum, which can be visited until May 5, 2025. After participating in the 2011 Biennale, the artist returns to the city with a staff whose path explores the
His particular sensitivity to matter and three -dimensionality, his profound knowledge of classical antiquity as well as his extraordinary ability to update universal themes, which they find in this city, and in particular at Palazzo Fortuny, a particular resonance. New sculptures like Pantry fate, Vivid fate And Radiant outrage Together with historical works, exposed to the ground floor of the building, they place themselves as critical rereads of contemporary society, taking the classical one as a model.
Monari questioned the importance of the myth in the construction of social institutions, without Switzing it in itself but, on the contrary, attacking the inability of contemporary society to recognize its scope. Poetry, love, glory, war, fate, time, vanity, death take shape in a sort of ancient novel, yet always new, through a preparation that unfolds, work after work, on chapters modeled in the form of human appearance, drives, aspirations, doubts and fearsexplains Niccolò Lucarelli, curator of the exhibition. A human comedy Made of statues, however, they are alive in their narrative force, characters eternalized in the three -dimensionality of bronze. Through this narrative, the ground floor of the Fortuny Museum turns into a theatrical stage that
It ranges between the eras by virtue of a sculpture made of looks and words, which are punished and provocative, enthusiasts and poetics together, a sculpture that has a narrative charge capable of turning on the drama in front of the observer’s gaze. Despite their conflict, the sculptures of Monari reveal the urgency of a recovery of the spiritual dimension, and by virtue of this they offer themselves to the observer like so many fleeting hieraphanias, the labile revelations of that sacredness that once belonged to the individual.
“The presence of Monari at Palazzo Fortuny, therefore, underlines the need to strengthen and update the dialogue with that Greco-Roman culture which is the founding root of our society. Through his work, modernity can be rediscovered, as happened for Mariano Fortuny who, with his iconic clothes and reasons 
decorative of his printed fabrics, translated values and symbols of classical antiquity in a contemporary and timeless language“underlines Chiara Squarcina, curator of the exhibition and scientific director of the Foundation.
A refined catalog accompanies the exhibition, created by Danilo Montanari Editore, with texts by Fred Licht (posthumous), Niccolò Lucarelli and a poem by Gian Ruggero Manzoni. Each copy is itself a work. The artist, intervening manually on each single cover with a gold leaf decoration, made each volume a unique and unrepeatable piece.
Biography. Sergio Monari (Bologna, 1950). His career starts in the late 70s, in active collaboration with the major Italian galleries. Since the 1980s he has collaborated with the greatest Italian poets and publishes numerous artist books. At the same time, it promotes a series of events and exhibitions related to sculpture. In 2002 he founded the Cutra Cultural Association with other artists, he opened an exhibition space in his Castelbolognese cottage and creates the sculpture park. He is prominent exponent of the Hypermanierism group of Italo Tomassoni. He has exhibited his works in over 90 exhibitions, personal and collective, in many private galleries and several public museums, both in Italy and abroad including the Expo 2015 in Milan, Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara, the contemporary art gallery of Geneva, Palazzo Farnese di Caprarola (VT), Palazzo della Corgna di Castiglione del Lago (PG), Palazzo della Regione Lombardia in Milan, the artistic Collegium of Sarajevo, Torlonia in Rome. He participated in the Venice Biennale in 2011. His works are kept in numerous private and institutional collections, including that of the Emilia-Romagna region and the Vittoriale of the Italians.
Carlo Franza