Il difficile è dimenticare ciò che si è visto per casa
(Ritratto di Pescara per caso)
a diffuse exhibition by Matteo Fato
curated by Simone Ciglia
Upcoming events and public program
A few days after the opening of the exhibition, Fondazione La Rocca is pleased to present the upcoming events and Public Program of Il difficile è dimenticare ciò che si è visto per casa (Ritratto di Pescara per caso), a solo exhibition by Matteo Fato curated by Simone Ciglia, which involves the entire city through an articulated network of venues, languages and forms.
The project marks the artist’s exhibition return after sixteen years to Pescara, his hometown, and builds a poetic and choral portrait of the territory, between art, memory, history and urban space. The works-partly unpublished, part remounted in dialogue with collections and contexts-inhabit museums, foundations and public spaces, in an investigation of painting and its relationship with landscape, time and community.
Matteo Fato was recently announced among the artists participating in the 18th Quadriennale di Roma Fantastica, within the section curated by Luca Massimo Barbero.
Events calendar
Thursday 17 July – 6 p.m.
Guided tour Fondazione La Rocca
With Matteo Fato and Simone Ciglia
Friday 18 July – 6.30 p.m.
Convento Michetti, Francavilla al Mare (CH)
Homage to Francesco Paolo Michetti
Sunday 20 July – 6 p.m.
Fondazione La Rocca / Lungofiume Pescara
Performance on the paranza in navigation
Sunday 20 July – 6 p.m. 30
Fondazione La Rocca
Conversazioni michettiane
With Adriana Gandolfi (art anthropologist)
Daniela Garofalo (contemporary art historian and critic)
In dialogue with Matteo Fato and Simone Ciglia
One of the fundamental references in Matteo Fato’s work, the artist Francesco Paolo Michetti is at the centre of a conversation exploring his figure from a historical-artistic and anthropological point of view.
Sunday 27 July – 6.30 p.m.
Fondazione La Rocca
Conversations on painting
With Davide Ferri (critic, curator, artistic director of Arte Fiera Bologna)
In dialogue with Matteo Fato and Simone Ciglia
One of the critics and curators most attentive to the evolution of painting in Italy, Davide Ferri dialogues with the artist and curator on the multiple aspects of the medium explored in the exhibition.
Sunday 31 August – 6.30 p.m.
Fondazione La Rocca
Conversations on words
With Gianni Garrera (musical philologist)
Giuseppe Garrera (art historian)
In dialogue with Matteo Fato and Simone Ciglia
Words and language – decisive elements in Matteo Fato’s work – are investigated in a conversation with Gianni and Giuseppe Garrera, among the most attentive observers of the artist’s work.
This paranza equipped with a seven-metre sail made of rags used for cleaning paintbrushes will also be visible on 27 July and 31 August from 6pm to 7pm in the stretch of the Pescara River opposite the La Rocca Foundation building.
The events are all free admission with compulsory booking at: segreteria@larocca.foundation
