Giuseppe Caccavale's 'Carmi figurati' at Galleria Doppelganger in Bari

Giuseppe Caccavale's exhibition 'Carmi figurati' at Galleria Doppelganger in Bari runs until the end of March 2020. The show draws inspiration from Osip Mandelstam's 'Conversation on Dante' (1933) and his 'Octaves', intertwining the poet's verses with Caccavale's visual language. The artist also references a Mediterranean repertoire, recalling Neapolitan Greek culture, Italian mural painting, Benedictine cartouches, and artists Rabanus Maurus and Opicinus de Canistris. Photographs taken by Caccavale in Armenia, a country dear to Mandelstam, are interspersed throughout. Curated by Chiara Bertola, the exhibition includes a dialogue published in an accompanying booklet. Caccavale describes Mandelstam as his Marcel Duchamp, Roberto Rossellini as his Cimabue, and Valerio Zurlini as his Piero della Francesca, emphasizing a physical engagement with natural elements to reconstruct figures. The show invites a mental, intellectual, and cultural journey.