“Boutades”: exhibition by Lisandro Rota

Saturday 6 December 2014 at 16.30, there is the inauguration of “Boutades“, the exhibition by the painter Lisandro Rota at the Mercurio Contemporary Art Gallery in corso Garibaldi 116 in Viareggio (Lu).

The artist, born in Lucca in 1946, has exhibited widely. The Viareggio gallery, directed by Gianni Costa, presents a series of recent acrylics on canvas.

Rota’s work – within the Tuscan fantastical realism movement – is centred around the female figure. His superabundant women are related to certain characters in films by Fellini for their cutting caricature, so beloved to the Rimini director, with which Rota defines the shapes and psychologies, sharpened with sarcastic and paradoxical underscores. Figures that are exuberant but at the same time light, comical and graceful, they stand out in skilfully constructed and orchestrated compositions, giving life to a harmonious pictorial symphony. In this unusual kaleidoscope where the burlesque and lyrical cues are mixed together, Rota develops his pictorial message, that aims to make the viewer smile, reflect, and be excited, transporting them in a dimension that is playful and at the same time full of symbolic valences.

The exhibition, which includes a catalogue with preface by Filippo Lotti, runs until 30 December 2014, from Tuesday to Sunday, 16.30 – 19.30. (Press Release)