Mario Ceroli's Apocalyptic Visions at Flora Bigai Gallery
Mario Ceroli, born in Castel Frentano in 1938, presents a solo exhibition at Galleria Flora Bigai in Pietrasanta. Working with glass, wood, and gold leaf, Ceroli interprets a problematic and apocalyptic contemporaneity. His works feature demons and exterminating angels symbolizing ethnic and social conflicts, modern plagues like AIDS and Ebola, and natural disasters due to climate change. The exhibition pays refined homage to the Renaissance, with wood sculptures that explode with Michelangelesque muscularity, combined with suggestions of medieval mystical suffering mediated through contemporary forms. Ceroli's historical and scenographic flair provokes realistic and bitter reflections, touching on the religious sphere as a metaphorical key for a caustic anthropological reading of an apocalypse caused by human hands.
Key facts
- Mario Ceroli was born in Castel Frentano in 1938.
- The exhibition is held at Galleria Flora Bigai in Pietrasanta.
- Ceroli works with glass, wood, and gold leaf.
- Themes include ethnic conflicts, AIDS, Ebola, and climate change.
- The works reference Renaissance and medieval art.
- The exhibition uses religious imagery metaphorically.
- The apocalypse depicted is caused by human actions.
- The article was written by Niccolò Lucarelli.
Entities
Artists
- Mario Ceroli
Institutions
- Galleria Flora Bigai
- Artribune
Locations
- Castel Frentano
- Italy
- Pietrasanta