REALISMO MAGICO

Luciano Verzola is an excellence of our land: it is a great delight and pride for Ascoli Piceno to house his creations. ‘Realismo magico’ goes on to travel along the same path of the last exhibition ‘Per Cecco’ that is an original increasingly proposal. The sartorial creations by Verzola at the Malatesta Fortress are the protagonist of a plot of photography and the Tarot world that promises an unmatched experience. An emotional rollercoaster is charming every viewer and enjoyer. At the same time, thanks to the exhibition wisely edited by Professor Papetti and Ascoli Museums, the work of development of the Malatesta Fortress and the promotion of ‘A hundred towers’ goes on to increase the city properties as desired destination of an artistic-cultural tourism. We are absolutely certain that these events are very important for the development of Ascoli and the Piceno so we invite you to visit ‘Realismo magico’ with new ways of usage of works as interactive totem, tablet, projectors, screens, photo corner and immersive installations that get this exhibition a not to be missed eventi.

Ascoli Piceno Mayor
Doctor Marco Fioravanti

The FOOL is the card Zero of Tarot, its first depiction in the Visconti desk is inspired by the STULTITIA depicted by Giotto for the Scrovegni Chapel in Padova. After 700 years it is reproduced by Luciano Verzola not again as a dull male figure dressed as a joker with his head covered by feathers, but as a hybrid elegant and slender wayfarer, with his pale face framed by a soft gorget that remind a surrealist character of Tim Burton’s fantasy although it remains original and unique.
It is just the Fool that reminds us with its wandering that the way of the knowledge is endless and becomes the creative inspiration and base for Luciano Verzola to make the series ‘The Tarot’ to which he’s working hard with his ‘out of rules’ idea in the local studio since 2018.
In his visionary clicks, Luciano Verzola is inspired by the Major Arcana of Visconti and Marseille Tarot, the enchanted world of the ‘once upon a time’ by Tim Walker and by the quiet and the suspended atmosphere of Johannes Vermeer’s works.
Tarot cards, cleverly mixed inside the charming Malatesta Fortress and in a sort of theatrical staging where elegant costumes and props contribute to the magic, invite the viewer to know their symbolic meaning and as in the case of ‘Il castello dei destini incrociati’ by Italo Calvino, they can help to be an instrument of self-narration and insight

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