The Italian Cultural Institute in Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with the Mazzoleni Gallery, London-Turin, is pleased to host “I Contain Multitudes”, Marinella Senatore’s first solo exhibition, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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November 22, 7pm
Italian Cultural Institute Abu Dhabi
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Introduction to the show by Claudio Cravero, Chief Curator, Zayed National Museum. Institutional greetings, Ambassador of Italy, Lorenzo Fanara and Director of the Italian Cultural Institute Abu Dhabi, Susanna Iacona Salafia.
The exhibition will be open to the public from 20-26 November 2023 (9am-4pm), coinciding with the prestigious annual art fair – Abu Dhabi Art – this year in its 15th edition and promoted by Abu Dhabi Culture and the Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi.
The exhibited works include her signatory luminaire neon and collage pieces. Since 2016, Marinella Senatore has also created large, site-specific, light installations, such as those presented at the High Line in New York, in 2018, and in Piazza Duomo, in Lecce, on the occasion of the Dior Cruise 2021 (2020) fashion show, and in the courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi, in Florence (2020).
Senatore’s Baroque style luminaries, in particular rose windows and portals, have become catalysts of energy aimed at celebrating individuals and communities, whilst her neon works, on the other hand, are the direct derivation of large luminous sculptures. Senatore’s collages, are most certainly not her only recurring technique, but they have remained a constant in the artist’s now twenty-year career and research. It is also a medium that the artist, herself, finds to be one of the most direct translations of her personal and collective thoughts – arranging the elements of the narrative on a surface is the direct translation between mind and hands, between concept and action.
