Vincenzo Scolamiero's 'Come sogni perduti' at Casa Museo Andersen

Vincenzo Scolamiero (Sant'Andrea di Conza, 1956; lives and works in Rome) presents his exhibition 'Come sogni perduti' at the Casa Museo di Hendrik Christian Andersen in Rome. The show is conceived as an organic installation that resonates with the architecture and utopian vision of the American-Norwegian sculptor, painter, and urbanist Hendrik Christian Andersen. Scolamiero's large canvases are placed in blind doors or on travertine blocks, engaging with Andersen's utopian sketches and colossal plaster casts. The travertine blocks serve as symbolic ruins of an unrealized utopia, evoking memory and the weight of history. The exhibition title references Georg Büchner's story 'Lenz', about an artist chasing dissolving visions. Scolamiero describes painting as an act of pursuing the unattainable, a poetic resistance in an age of industrially produced images. He draws inspiration from Virginia Woolf's stories 'The Mark on the Wall' and 'A Haunted House', and integrates poetry and music into his painterly gesture. The exhibition also dialogues with Andersen's 'World Center of Communication', a project for a global cultural hub that Scolamiero finds prescient in today's networked world. Scolamiero teaches at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and has exhibited in other museums and institutions in the city. The interview is conducted by Nicola Davide Angerame.