With the semi-permanent installation conceived for Casale Sant’Antonio III, Sensi Arte Contemporary Art Gallery renews its dialogue between contemporary art and landscape within the exclusive setting of Casali di Casole. The project represents the latest chapter in a long-standing collaboration between Sensi Arte Contemporary Art Gallery, isculpture Art Gallery and Casali di Casole, a dialogue developed over more than a decade and grounded in a shared vision in which contemporary art, architecture, landscape and hospitality coexist in harmonious balance.
The installation brings together works by Marco Manzella, Alessandro Cardinale, Jesús Curià, Hermann Josef Runggaldier and Nicola De Silvestri: Marco Manzella‘s painting unfolds like a suspended theatre where memory, myth and imagination converge. Rooted in the legacy of fifteenth-century Italian art and animated by a contemporary sensibility, his images inhabit an intermediate territory between reality and invention. Solemn figures emerge within silent, carefully composed settings, immersed in luminous atmospheres and warm chromatic harmonies, where water recurs as a symbolic presence. Alessandro Cardinale‘s sculptural and installation practice investigates the relationship between light and perception. In his works, materials and light-based devices articulate space, generating ever-changing visions that invite viewers into a sensitive and participatory experience. Jesús Curià‘s sculptures combine formal rigour with emotional intensity. Refined textures and patinas, compact volumes, bold material combinations and a carefully calibrated interplay between solids and voids give rise to hieratic figures of unmistakable magnetism. Hermann Josef Runggaldier, a master sculptor trained in Ortisei and at leading artistic centres across Europe and the United States, has refined over the years a practice that finds its principal means of expression in bronze, wood and stone. For more than two decades, Nicola De Silvestri has pursued a sculptural practice centred on the human figure and the movements of inner life. From collaborations with workshops and foundries between Carrara and Pietrasanta to lost-wax casting and the production of models for internationally renowned artists, his work reveals a coherent artistic journey in which clay, wax and bronze become the means to translate memory, journey and presence into forms of profound expressive intensity.
Installed throughout the interiors of Casale Sant’Antonio III, the artworks establish a natural dialogue with both the architecture and the Tuscan landscape, transforming the spaces into a continuous exhibition experience where art, nature and place merge into a single immersive environment.
See ‘Casale Sant’Antonio’ catalogue
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