Nell’Ottica di Leonardo

Nell’ottica di Leonardo

Nell’ottica di Leonardo, it is a journey, a journey, a succession of stories in which the “spirit” of Leonardo da Vinci hovers in a completely individual and subjective way. Installations, photographs, paintings and sculptures will guide our eyes and our mind, from one work to another, in a sort of sensory and mnemonic ping pong.

The 10 artists (Roberto Bastianoni, Alain Bonnefoit, Fabio Calvetti, Claudio Cinelli, Danilo Fusi, Giovanni Maranghi, Alberto DK Marconcini, Francesco Nesi, Nico Paladini and Paolo Staccioli) were inspired by the naturalistic context of the Tuscan hills and captured a spark of Leonardo’s genius, which we find in their works of art, as pointed out by Cristina Acidini, president of the Academy of Arts of Design in Florence, during the inauguration held on Saturday 20 July 2019. What we see on display, in fact, is not it is nothing more than an interpretation of Leonardo’s inspiration seen and internalized by contemporary artists: from unthinkable architectural landscapes from a detail of a honeycomb to overlapping drawings with classic spores, from dreamlike and dreamy paintings to drawings inspired by Codes with protagonists Star Wars machines and characters…

Doctor Cristina Acidini writes about Alberto D.K. Marconcini …

For an unexpected and shrewd work of quotation-recreation, please contact Alberto D.K. Marconcini, author of writings and drawings on old-fashioned but ironically anachronistic yellowed and inked sheets: “DF: Mask” is dedicated to meticulous anatomical studies, but not of human skulls, but of the mask of Darth Vader (in Italian Dart Fener, formerly Anakin Skywalker), the powerful Jedi who went to the dark side of the Force in Star Wars, the film saga started by George Lucas in 1977. Just as the reinterpretations of Leonardo’s naturalistic studies are the sheets with “The Water” and “The Sun” ”, Accompanied by graphic meanders and notes written from right to left.