In occasion of the 17th Day of the Contemporary, promoted by AMACI (Association of Italian museums of contemporary arts) with the support of the General Management of Contemporary Creativity of the Ministery of Culture, the International Gallery of Modern Art of Ca’ Pesaro is proud to presents the work of Gabriele Grones. Gabriele Grones’ show in Ca’ Pesaro is in dialogue with the permanent exhibition, of which his new works are the artistic and conceptual elaboration. In particular the artist places two portrait of small dimensions, painted with an extremely realistic technique, side by side with the wax sculptures of Medardo Rosso and the painting The White Mask by Fernand Khnopff. He also draws some details from the work of Joaquìn Sorolla Sewing the sail, The Ladies of Felice Casorati, the paintings of Umberto Moggioli Small landscape in Burano and Fall in Treporti, Vases and Bottles and Still Life by Giorgio Morandi and Untitled by Giovanni Anselmo, a famous Arte Povera sculpture. Grones has been chosen by Ca’ Pesaro in 2020 for the program Level 0 of Artverona and had already been selected for the Mestre Painting Prize in the same year. The exhibition, curated by Elisabetta Barisoni and Giovanna Nicoletti, brings forward the tradition started in 1902 of connecting the Masters with new talents of contemporary art. This tradition has renewed itself also with the exhibition experiences inaugurated by the dialogue by Sophie Ko with The Thinker of Auguste Rodin in 2019 and with the residency of Paola Angeline in Ca’ Pesaro in 2020, displayed in the project room of the museum in 2021.

The paintings have been conceived as a site specific project and offer to the visitor a fresh interpretation of the works of Grones, along with a new look on the masterpieces of the Masters. Together they create an orchestrated and rhythmic set of relations, tensions and analogies, iconographic cross references and shared directions. Moreover, for the Day of the Contemporary the artist has foreseen the exhibition of works in progress. Saturday December 11th Gabriele Grones will work in the rooms of Ca’ Pesaro, displaying himself to the public of the Gallery in a small temporary studio set up with two works in progress and materials for artistic research (books, notes, photos). The two works in progress present a reflection on the theme of nature and on the morphology of heath. One starts from the re-elaboration of a detail from the painting Madonna with Child by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio in 1945; the other represents a bush cardoon in nature. The studio will be set in room 5, where the dialogue of Grones’ exhibition will start with the Masters of the great season of Ca’ Pesaro of the beginning of the Century: Felice Casorati, Gino Rossi, Umberto Moggioli. Here the visitors will see the artist in his environment of work and research, and they will be able to better understand his process, made of meticulous work, research and expertise, along with intellectual reflection and passion. Gabriele Grones was born in Arabba (Belluno) in 1983, studied at the Liceo Artistico Statale and the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice and today lives and works between Rovigo, Milano and New York. He has always looked for a reference point for his education in the collections of Ca’ Pesaro. Here the artist has found a valuable place with which he has been working with in the past months and thanks to which he has been able to enrich and nourish his research, his reflection on History and on the relationship between man and nature in current times.