PANORAMA Monferrato - a project by Italics

Caterina Tognon arte contemporanea is delighted to participate in the fourth edition of Panorama, the region-wide exhibition conceived by ITALICS - an institutional network of galleries that deal in ancient, modern and contemporary art.

From 4 to 8 September 2024, the Monferrato territory will be hosting more than 60 artists. The exhibition, curated by Carlo Falciani, is inspired by the principles of La civil conversazione - a work written by Stefano Guazzo (born in Casale Monferrato in 1530) and published in 1574. It is like a journey in stages through the towns of Camagna, Vignale, Montemagno and Castagnole. 

Panorama Monferrato is a journey to be taken slowly, a metaphor for the path of meditation. In the same way that Guazzo used his characters to show how a community could only thrive through dialogue, so the contemporary visitor to Panorama also embarks on a reflective journey favored by art.

Caterina Tognon will present “Schizzi selvaggi” by Richard Meitner (USA 1945, lives and work in Amsterdam).

Meitner’s artistic practice has always traversed the thresholds between art and applied arts, sculpture and installation, science and poetry, usually defying any classification.

Paradoxically, “Schizzi Selvaggi” gives form to his intention to use the noble material of glass “to sketch with”.

Gestures, balancing acts, references to painting, dances, these are the words which come to mind when one stands in front of the wall adorned with these schizzi and we might feel confronted with a veritable frenzy of meanings.