The exhibition “Lia Drei – Shapes and geometries of light” has been inaugurated at the Galleria Comunale d'Arte in Cagliari , which collects and recounts the incessant research – abstract, geometric and chromatic – of one of the most important Italian artists of the 20th century.
As in a journey in stages , the exhibition offers the public – with 24 works – a taste of all the phases of Drei's artistic production linked to her constant investigation of the shape-colour perception.
The organization is signed by the Department of Culture and Entertainment and the Civic Museums , the curator is Teodolinda Coltellaro, who comments: «Lia Drei's creative path can be defined as an extraordinary journey in research, a research that is never satisfied, indomitable, which he directed his steps towards the territories of art, right up to the end. Two terms, travel and research which, in order to outline its substantial artistic and human depth, are complementary: one amplifies the historical-cultural connotations of an existence, qualifies the operational coordinates which from time to time have characterized the work; the other identifies the fundamental cognitive assumption of a discourse on art, on its gnoseological categories, in an uninterrupted and coherent search for new forms and aesthetic modalities to be experienced».
«Lia Drei's work – said councilor Maria Dolores Picciau – is an obligatory point of passage for the history of the artistic Neo-avant-gardes of the Sixties and Seventies. This retrospective falls on the centenary of her birth and continues the process of enhancing the female world in the figurative arts, promoted by the Department of Culture and Entertainment of the Municipality of Cagliari. Furthermore, it once again places the emphasis on the role of female artists from the second half of the last century and on that large number of women who contributed with their commitment to the revolutionary subversion of Italian culture and to the affirmation and acquisition of an active role in society and in the cultural debate. Lia Drei was an international artist and this exhibition bears witness to how even a peripheral reality like Cagliari can dialogue with the rest of the world, thanks to a good cultural policy that restores impetus to the artistic, expressive and creative energies of the city».
The exhibition at the Galleria Comunale d'Arte, open to the public until 26 February 2023 , is also a reminder that the artist's extraordinary career, in the 1960s, also stopped in Cagliari . Here the painter, together with Guerrieri and various art historians such as Corrado Maltese , carried out some research on perception-shape-colour for the university of the capital.
(Unioneonline/vf)
