THE ARTIST WILL BE HAVING A SOLO EXHIBITION FOR THE FIRST TIME
Napoli, 12th December 2024 – Tomorrow, on Friday 13th December, Fatti d’Arte will inaugurate the exhibition “Liquid thought in the magic and enchantment of icons by Gennaro Regina”, curated by Fatti d’Arte and Giovanni D’Alessandro. It can be visited from 13th to 17th December 2024 with free entrance at Gennaro Alterio and Rita Zunno’s Frame shop and Gallery’s spaces
THE INAUGURATION
The week before the fervent Christmas time will be a fantastic occasion to present his iconic works; the artistic style is indissolubly linked to Art Publishing and Antiques. The family business has marked this surname since the second half of the nineteenth century.
Tomorrow there will be the vernissage starting from 6:30pm. It will be a convivial moment of meeting and debate dedicated to everything concerning art. The initiative is the result of a pleasant exchange, constantly cultivated by the duo Alterio-Zunno with their own customers and friends. Fatti d’Arte aspires to be a reference point for the city of Aversa, not only for artists, but for everyone who sees art as an opportunity of comfort and debate.
THE EXHIBITION
Hosting Gennaro Regina means opening the doors to a wider audience that sees in his creations the expression of an ancient, but a contemporary and strongly recognisable city of Naples at the same time as well. These works are characterised by an almost excessive use of colours able to give life to surreal landscape representations.
In this initiative and by the exhibited works, Fatti d’Arte promises to recall the feeling of matter regarding the liquidness evoked by the artist’s technique or merely the manifest idea itself aiming to propose subjects such as Wine. As all his paintings, Regina flavours Wine with the heart breaking love for his city, the local origins and his family story, mixing wisely colours, materials, techniques and ancient maps, creating expressions strongly iconic and recognisable without any mistake.
In addition to exhibited works, 15 numbered magnum bottles of Fiano di Avellino DOCG of winery Donnachiara Monteflacione will be saleable. The label reports the work “Profumo DiVino, Aversa”, made by the artist for the occasion. All their income will be donated to a local association for charity.
The accompanying tabloid of the exhibition is printed by Grafica Nappa and sees Giovanni D’Alessandro’s introduction, Fatti d’Arte curator. The graphic project is instead by Rita Zunno.
WHO IS GENNARO REGINA
(Gennaro Regina was born in 1965 from a family of art editors and antiquarian booksellers from 1880. Regina links his two biggest passions to family heritage: painting and photography. Both passions allowed him to realize his creations held today inside the Italian and foreign collectors’ spaces, conquering especially the USA. In 2007 Gennaro Regina prepared an exhibition in an important studio of an expert from Naples, obtaining a huge success with audiences and critics. That occasion was propitious to create a real connection with the world outside of spaces, keeper of his creativity, bringing his moods, his feelings on canvas, between paintings and collages, to the prestigious Arts Palace of Naples (PAN).
This was just the first exhibition of a calendar which brought him to Milan, Rome at Vatican Museums, Geneve, Luxembourg, United States. At PAN, Regina setted up the exhibition “L’urlo del Vesuvio” (The scream of Vesuvius) which became an art catalogue edited by Giorgio Mondadori. An amazing exhibition, a scream of condemnation concerning the city of Naples, tired to be subjected and to stand by and watch. It is a scream launched through works where there are traces of Munch, without clashing but creating a fascinating unicum, in the colours mixtures on which the Vesuvius and Andy Warhol lay down. About Andy Warhol, the communicative and advertising tone is strongly resumed. In 2017 Gennaro Regina won an Award at Los Angeles Movies Awards in the category best experimental, for the direction of docucorto d’arte Suriezione, a documentary of his live performance.
Information
Liquid thought in the magic and enchantment of icons by Gennaro Regina
When: from 13th to 17th December 2024
Opening on Friday 13th December at 6:30pm
Where: Piazza Bernini 41, Aversa