Contemporanea Ventiventitre

The "CONTEMPORANEA VENTIVENTITRE" art exhibition will reach its 10th edition, which will take place in Tagliacozzo (AQ), in the rooms of the Doge's Palace, concurrently and in interaction with the International Midsummer Festival.

The fundamental objective of the artistic-cultural event "Contemporanea Ventiventitre" is to enhance contemporary art in all its disciplines, to connect established artists to emerging young people of any nationality, to provide them with international visibility and to make them known to the a large audience that flocks to the Abruzzo city every summer.
According to data provided by the municipal body, the event is visited by more than 10,000 people a year.
Contemporanea was curated in the ninth edition by the art critic Ludovico Pratesi and the curator Marco Bassan of Spazio Taverna and the curator Arianna Sera of Spazio Hangar. In the VIII by the philosopher and curator Giuseppe Armogida.

Over the years, artists of the caliber of Alberto Di Fabio, Matteo Montani, Wang Yancheng, Alfredo Pirri, Gianni Politi, Eugenio Tibaldi, Alice Paltrinieri, Diego Miguel Mirabella, Giulio Bensasson, Fausto Delle Chiaie, Alessandro Giannì, Lulu Nuti, Caterina have participated. Silva, Paolo Laudisa, Delfina Scarpa, Emanuele Moretti, Francesco Campese, Caterina Silva, Ricardo Aleodor Venturi, Eleonora Cerri Pecorella, Damianos Zisinou and others.

Contemporanea's photographs were taken by Giorgio Benni, the leading expert in contemporary art photography in Italy.
Contemporanea's photographs were taken by Giorgio Benni, the leading expert in contemporary art photography in Italy.

In recent editions, Contemporanea has been supported by the Municipality of the City of Tagliacozzo, by the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome and L'Aquila; by various cultural and artistic associations, in particular by the Foundation for Chinese Art in Italy, chaired by Dr. Wang Shengwen for whom the collaboration established an intercultural link between East and West; by Ludovico Pratesi's “Spazio Taverna” Association, and Arianna Sera's Spazio Hangar; Contemporanea is a container of the ARTEiX Association.

CONTEMPORARY LOCATION
"Contemporary", after having been set up, in the first editions, in the Cloister and Museum of San Francesco in Tagliacozzo (13th and 15th centuries) and in the premises of the Villa Bella building (nautical-sports complex, built in the Fascist era and designed by the great architect Enrico del Debbio, author of the Foro Italico), has found its headquarters in the prestigious Palazzo Ducale Orsini-Colonna, in the heart of the historic city center.

The building that already existed in the first half of the fourteenth century, as shown in a document by Orso Orsini dated 20 April 1336, was originally very different from the current structure which, over the centuries, has undergone several enlargements and alterations that they have modified its original appearance. During the 15th century, Count Roberto Orsini completed the work by building the second floor of the building.

It was beginning in 1467 that the Colonnas, who in the meantime had become feudal lords with the title of dukes of Tagliacozzo and most of the Marsica lands, eliminated many of the decorative elements that recalled the ousted Orsini, replacing them with others that exalted family coats of arms and mottos.

In the eighteenth century the flight of stairs between the first and second floors and the entrance portal were built by the Colonna family. In the Fascist era, the staircase of honor and other major restoration works were carried out which further modified the appearance of the structure and due to which some rooms and related murals of mythological content were eliminated.

The Colonna family remained the owners of the stately building until the first half of the 19th century. It was followed by the ownership of the Barberini-Corsinis, under Fascism that of the GIL, and finally that of the Abruzzo Region. Currently the managing body is the Municipality of Tagliacozzo.

The south-western wing of the Palace, an already proven location for the artistic event, is spread over about 1000 square meters of restored rooms. The internal walls are painted white, with an antique terracotta floor and coffered typical of the historic noble palaces of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In addition to the large windows, it has fixed museum artificial lighting, which makes the lighting homogeneous, suitable for displaying works of art. The exhibition rooms are easily adaptable to any needs of the artists.

For info contemporanea@comune.tagliacozzo.aq.it