Paola Angelini: Splendor Solis

Selected in 2019 at Art Verona Fair for the Level 0 program, Paola Angelini was invited by Ca’ Pesaro for the 16th Italian Contemporary Art Day, promoted by the Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums (AMACI). Held on December 5th 2020 only online due to the Covid-19 emergency, the Contemporary Art Day was prepared by inviting the Italian painter to work in the collection.

In October 2020 Paola Angelini had spent a few weeks in contact with the masterpieces of the Ca’ Pesaro Gallery, working directly in the collection during the closing days. Silence and quietness have given her the opportunity to dialogue with the works, to steal the secrets of the Masters, to confront the lights and shadows of our History. The Museum’s project room reopens starting from Paola Angelini’s experience and her memories of the time she spent in Ca’ Pesaro.

The large Splendor Solis canvas is an ongoing work, a work in progress that the artist will conclude during the exhibition here in Venice. It is an homage by the artist to the Museum collections and a further testimony of the vitality of the Gallery, which since the early 1900s has hosted together with the masterpieces of the most important protagonists of international art also the productions of young and revolutionaries avant-garde.