The exhibition Nuvolo Nuntius Revelatus. La pittura di serigrafia tra caos e ordine curated by Bruno Corà, Aldo Iori and Paolo Ascani, opens on Friday, December 15, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. at MUSA, Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts. It is preceded on the same day by a conference on the artist starting at 10:00 a.m. in the Aula Magna of the Academy.

The Event closes the Celebrations of the 450th anniversary of the founding of Perugia’s “Pietro Vannucci” Academy of Fine Arts in the first year of its new course as a State Institution. The event, promoted by the faculty led by director Tiziana D’Acchille, is dedicated to the figure of the artist Nuvolo (Giorgio Ascani, Città di Castello, 1926-2008) teacher of Painting and director of the Perugia Academy from 1979 to 1984.

The exhibition, is the result of the collaboration of the Academy of Fine Arts “Pietro Vannucci” of Perugia with the Associazione Archivio Nuvolo of Città di Castello, and examines the artist’s pictorial activity made with the silkscreen technique from 1952 to 2006.

The conference program includes institutional greetings by: Lawyer Mario Rampini, president of ABA Perugia, Prof. Tiziana D’Acchille, director of ABA Perugia, Hon. Anna Ascani, Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies, Donatella Tesei, President of the Region of Umbria, Stefania Proietti, President of the Province of Perugia, Andrea Romizi, Mayor of the Municipality of Perugia, Luca Secondi, Mayor of the Municipality of Città di Castello, Ilaria Borletti Buitoni, FAI Vice-President.

In addition to curators Bruno Corà, historian and art critic, president of the Palazzo Albizzini Fondazione Collezione Burri, Città di Castello, Aldo Iori, historian and art critic, lecturer at the University of Perugia, and Paolo Ascani, vice-president of the Archivio Nuvolo Association, Città di Castello, the following scholars are participating in the conference:

Daniela Bigi, art historian and critic, lecturer Accademia belle arti, Palermo, Maria Ausilia Binda, historian, art critic and lecturer, Perugia, Valentino Catricalà, art historian and critic, curator of the SODA Gallery at Manchester Metropolitan University, Mario Diacono, poet, art critic and dealer, Boston (text), Barbara Drudi, art historian and critic, lecturer Academy of Fine Arts, L’Aquila, Katie Larson, art historian, lecturer Baylor University, Texas (videocall), Bianca Pedace, art historian and critic, lecturer Academy of Fine Arts, Perugia, Francesca Pola, art historian and critic, lecturer Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Saverio Verini, art historian and critic, director of the Museum System of the City of Spoleto.

Gli interventi metteranno in luce le caratteristiche della poliedrica personalità artistica di Nuvolo e l’alta qualità della sua opera, analizzata sotto differenti punti di vista, fornendo inedite letture dei contesti culturali nei quali è cresciuto e ha operato, le amicizie, la sua attività didattica.

A video, curated by Professors Moreno Barboni and Davide Vasta. will be made on the occasion of the Exhibition-Conference, which collects short testimonies of Maestro Nuvolo’s former students, now artists, teachers and cultural workers in Italy and around the world.
The exhibition highlights the ever-present chaos/order pair in Nuvolo’s painting, which mediates between the gesturality of previous informal derivation and the new scientific control the artist has over the making of the work. The iron programming necessary for technique to achieve perfection produces the balance sought by meeting with natural randomness. The viewing of a hundred or so works allows the visitor to observe the use of the infinite chromatic possibilities of paints and pigments, the control of their physical and combinatorial properties, Nuvolo’s punctual technical executive mastery in the creation of always unprecedented solutions, as well as to assess the great pictorial quality of the results achieved and to know and understand the artistic path of one of the most interesting artists of the second half of the 20th century.

The exhibition unfolds in the space of the Art Gallery showing visitors works that have been divided into cycles according to their linguistic peculiarities.

Conference

Friday, December 15, 2023

Aula Magna, Academy of Fine Arts “Pietro Vannucci” of Perugia

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Exhibition

December 15, 2023 – May 10, 2024

Opening on Friday, December 15, 2023, 6:30 p.m.

MusA, Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts “Pietro Vannucci” of Perugia

Thursday/Sunday 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. / 3:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.