“Stupido come un pittore”, curated by Rossella Farinotti and Simona Squadrito,

Villa Vertua Masolo, Nova Milanese, 2017

with: Nicola Melinelli, Valentino Vago, Sebastiano Impellizzeri, Thomas Berra

The first chapter of Stupido come un pittore explored, through a rarefied and atmospheric exhibition, the latest research by Thomas Berra, Sebastiano Impellizzeri, Pesce Khete, Nicola Melinelli and Valentino Vago; all artists who, although with different results, face painting through a close dialogue with light and space, a painting that becomes, in the most drastic declinations of this research – according to the curators of the exhibition – “extra-pictorial”.

If color, light, space and aniconicity were the central elements of the first chapter, landscapes, figures, scenes – together with the decorative element of painting – are the elements around which this second chapter develops. In addition to offering an overview of the research of “studio” painters, some artists directly address the spaces of Villa Vertua Masolo, proposing a series of site-specific interventions. Villa Vertua Masolo is therefore not perceived as a scenario for a display where painting is the sole protagonist, but as a subject around which revolve the artistic interventions.