‘Undressed of Flesh’ exhibition in Rome
Throughout the centuries there’s been frequent massacres of artists, philosophers, thinkers, writers, scientists and activists who have been sentenced to death for defending their ideals with strength and coherence, for having carried out their personal struggles against a society that censored them with violence.
From that fact, the exhibition ‘Undressed of flesh’ tries to represent some of these famous people with pictorial language, conferring an artistic dimension to the tragic events of history (also recent history). And so, Antonello Morsillo, an Italian artist who lives and works in Rome, decided to concentrate his recent production on the history of these famous disappeared people, making a last exhibition as a tribute to upstream thinking and condemning denied freedom.
Morsillo was born in southern Italy, in Foggia, and since he was a teen he took interest in illustration, beginning to make characters for cartoons. Years later, in Rome, he was to obtain his degree in graphic advertising, drawing and painting. His first individual exhibition was the publication of a catalogue in 2002. For four years Morsillo worked with SonyBMG and this experience allowed him to establish himself definitively as an illustrator thanks to the making of album covers for popular Italian singers, such as Milva, Patty Pravo and Luigi Tenco.
But it’s with the exhibition ‘Undressed of flesh’ that Morsillo reaches a new era in his artistic development, uniting illustration and painting and a deep theoretical investigation. This way, he makes a pictorial and conceptual route that takes us to the murders of Federico García Lorca, Giordano Bruno, Sophie Scholl, Matthew Shepard, Gandhi and many more.
And so, Morsillo chose Ipazia, a mathematician, astronomer and philosopher from ancient Greece who was literally cut to pieces by a group of Christians, and he represents her pregnant, as the mother of science. We also find Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Italian writer and film director who was murdered in 1975 by a ‘ragazzo di vita’ (child of life) and he’s represented with open arms, simulating a flight from his ‘crucifixion’. There’s also Giordano Bruno, who doesn’t have a mouth in the painting but slight marks instead that seem to slowly give him back his words, and Sophie Scholl (leader and activist of the anti-Nazi movement ‘White Rose’), represented with a white rose in her mouth, tied by a string of thorns that condemns silence.
The exhibition can be visited until the 17th of February at the Rodari Library, located on Via Francesco Tovaglieri 237/a (00169). The opening times are from Monday to Friday from 9am till 7pm, Saturday from 9am till 1.30pm and closed all day Sunday. You’ll find more information on this webpage: www.artribune.com/dettaglio/?type=event&id=7619
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If you find yourself in the beautiful Italian capital, don’t miss this interesting exhibition. We also recommend that you rent apartments in Rome and come and enjoy a stay in this city to discover all the cultural and artistic initiatives that it offers.
Translated by: aleixgwilliam
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