The Accademia del
Bello is a brand-new cultural center that seeks to recapture aesthetics,
beauty and harmony in art. These days, beauty in art has become
superfluous: much more important for works of art to express ideas, to
communicate, and oftentimes to shock. An enthusiastic exhibit-goer is more
likely to leave a gallery disconcerted, disoriented or even depressed than
moved and uplifted. While there can be no doubt that without communication, any
work of art would fall flat, that doesn't seem like an adequate reason to
neglect the aesthetic aspects of art entirely.
Artist Emanuela
Tamburini has for this reason created the Accademia del Bello, to remind the
art-loving community of the importance of the aesthetic value of art. The
Academy is a meeting place for artists as well as all art lovers, hosting
themed exhibits and events, as well as offering painting and drawing courses.
I find this initiative
refreshing. During my years at New England Conservatory of Music, I remember
searching the listening library high and low for the most beautiful music
possible. And I often felt that I had to apologize for it. "I have a
preference for beautiful music," I used to say, as if I were artistically
inferior to my classmates who preferred Hindemith or Berg to my beloved Debussy
and Respighi. How lovely to find I'm not the only one!
The Academy's first major exhibit opens tonight
with works by Rina Aloe, Wanda Bettozzi, Mario D’Imperio, Francesco Ferlisi, Donato Maiorella and
Emanuela Tamburini. The Colors of Summer seeks to celebrate the
beginning of the brightest and warmest season of the year with visions of forms
and colors in harmony with one another. Yet each work is vastly different from
the next, with a wide array of techniques, textures and colors, representing
the culmination of a lifetime of experience for each of the six artists.
The exhibit opens tonight, 20 June, at 6pm and
runs until 27 June, at the Accademia del Bello, on Via Gaetano Mario Columba,
23 near Via Appia Nuova (Metro Colli Albani). Open everyday from 11am to 1pm
and 4pm to 7pm. Drop by tonight to see these paintings, meet the artists, and
learn about the specific techniques they employ to create their work.
All images proved courtesy of the Accademia del
Bello
