Vera da pozzo

From 28 March to 5 July, the San Domenico Museum in Imola is hosting 'Vera da pozzo', a monographic exhibition dedicated to the Milanese artist Giovanni Frangi, curated by Diego Galizzi, director of Imola Musei, and Marta Cereda, independent curator.

The exhibition is spread across the interior spaces, the quadriportico and the cloister of the former Dominican convent, in direct dialogue with the historic architecture of the complex. The result is a broad and conscious reflection on the artist's most recent research.

Over forty works, including large-scale paintings, sculptures and drawings, make up the exhibition, which is divided into four autonomous but interconnected cycles. The result is a seamless exhibition, a sort of visual self-analysis that monitors the current state of the artist's research, relating nature, sky, movement and memory.

The title of the exhibition is vividly expressed in the artist's new work for the well in the centre of the cloister. Vera da pozzo (well curb) – the name given to the protective balustrade surrounding a well – becomes an evocative image and a symbolic device: the well as a place of depth, reflection and emergence, a point where architectural space and pictorial research meet.