Utopia of a journey with Goethe and Hafez

Utopia of a journey with Goethe and Hafez

The artist's works  GERHARD SCHWARZ .

The works of the artist GERHARD SCHWARZ.
Starting from Saturday 6 April 2019 the prestigious spaces of the Venanzo Crocetti Museum will host the exhibition "Utopia of a journey with Goethe" by Gerhard Schwarz by Giuseppe Ussani d'Escobar. The exhibition is organized by the Sphaeran society with the patronage of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Italy, the Cultural Institute of Iran in Italy, the Lazio Region and the UCOII-Union of Italian Islamic Communities.
The exhibition project foresees the preparation of about 40 paintings expertly collected to tell utopically, through architectural signs, subjects and intense landscapes, the journey that Goethe undertaken in Italy. Thanks to a simple randomness of events, the artist, since he was a young student in Heidelberg, discovers he has visited the places from which Goethe passed without having full awareness, thus weaving with him a silent and mysterious dialogue that somehow marks the his character and his life. The result of this unscheduled meeting is the incipit and the wise provocation from which the exhibition originates. The proximity to these places, the poetry that crosses them create the conditions for a bond, soon to become inseparable, that exists between Schwarz and Italy, this connection becomes the instrument that definitively establishes its link with the Italian territory.
The works are offered to the public as the characters of a story that inhabit places full of memory, the artist retraces and crosses the whole peninsula, giving back, through a delicate oil technique, whose pastel colors and shades accompany the observer , symbols, spaces and sensations. And then, after a gestation of a few years, during which he painted Mediterranean landscapes and vestiges both Roman and Etruscan, the project-reflection on Goethe's journey in Italy was born.
Thanks to the importance of the initiative, during the exhibition period some moments of training, reflection and research on the universal personality of Goethe were scheduled: Tuesday 16 April at 11: 00 the laboratory for schools on Goethe's "Theory of Colors" directed by the artist Gerhard Schwarz who will illustrate and accompany with practical experiments the students in verifying the topicality of the theory on colors of the great German writer and thinker; the laboratory is organized by Sphaerica in collaboration with the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Germany in Italy and with the Regional School Office for Lazio of the Ministry of Education, University and Research.
Friday 12 April at 16: 00 the conference "Goethe and Hafez" by Prof. Stefano Pellò Professor of Persian Language and Literature at the University of Venice Cà Foscari and Giuseppe Ussani d'Escobar; They will be presented by the Director of the Cultural Institute of Iran in Italy Dr. Akbar Gholi. The conference is organized by the Cultural Institute of Iran and by Sphaerica.

The exhibition is sponsored by pfm medical and RETE SIDEL

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