Exhibition "Tribute to Rainer Maria Rilke 1926 - 2026"

Description

A hundred years after the death of Rainer Maria Rilke, the Trieste Art Salon has organized a group exhibition in which ten artists celebrate the memory of the man considered one of the most important poets of the 20th century. The exhibition opens on Saturday, June 6th at 6:00 pm with a critical presentation by Franco Rosso and a Poetry Slam presentation by Mariana Pavanello. The writing of the Duino Elegies, the work that immortalized Rilke, began in Duino Castle in 1912 (...concluded in Switzerland ten years later) and established itself as the most complex and problematic work of poetry of the twentieth century, just as complex and problematic was Rilke's entire life: cosmopolitan, adventurous, worldly, aristocratic, nomadic throughout Europe and even in Africa. The Art Salon focused creative attention on the anniversary of a poet who was strongly influenced and influenced by painting and sculpture, so much so that he even wrote a monograph dedicated to August Rodin (even becoming his secretary for several years) and studied the art of Cézanne extensively, to the point of convincing himself that he had learned to see and understand the transience of things, and thus made his own the desire to save things in the form of art. "Who would ever hear me if I shouted... is the opening line of Duinesi Elegies," writes Franco Rosso in the introduction, "and the ten artists featured in this exhibition offer a creative response to Rilke's cry, crafting a mosaic of images that visualize the most significant concepts contained in the author's entire poetic oeuvre. They do so through drawing, painting, and digital language. Ten different ways to remember the literary legacy of an author who sang of life as a supreme, ephemeral and fleeting good, who celebrated beauty in the dream that nature never touches: an author who was also a lyrical interpreter of modern spirituality. He also focused on the theme of religiosity and often—in his verses—let things, men, and animals speak."
Participating artists: Lauree Crossman, Patrizia De Angelini, Elena Deluca, Francesco Demundo, Franco Folla, Paolo Pestelli, Claudia Raza, Antonio Sgarbossa, Mario Tiberio Magno, Ani Tretjak.
Opening hours: Monday 4:30 pm – 7:30 pm, Tuesday to Saturday: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm / 4:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Organized by:

Salone d'Arte