Florence, the capital of Toscana, cradle of the renaissance, rediscovering the truest meaning of this term, beginning Thursday, September 30th, is the host of a weeklong event dedicated to artistic encounters between contemporaneity and history.
Strategica Group, who with its Private & Art Insurance division, protects the artistic legacy, collections, luxurious goods and historic houses, has taken part of the most important events of this great happening, of which we bring forward a photographic review.
In particular, Strategica was chosen as an insurance partner of two initiatives.
The first project, “Francesco Vezzoli in Florence” is a project presented on 2nd of October, curated by Cristiana Perella e Sergio Risaliti, the respective director of Centro Pecci of Prato and a director of the Museo Novecento of Florence, who has brought to the city two arts of work of one of the most affirmed and famous contemporary artists.
A monumental figure of a lion has been installed at Piazza della Signoria. Placed upon an ancient base, the lion is raising his paws in an aggressive manner while crushing a roman head from the II C. B.C. It is an encounter between diverse artistic epochs that has become the topic of quite a few of Vezzoli’s recent works. The synthesis between classicality and contemporaneity can also be seen in the second sculpture. At the center of the Studiolo di Francesco I de’Medici in Palazzo Vecchio, a figure of a roman man wearing a toga on which a “metaphysical” bronze head is placed, referencing The Archeologists of DeChirico.
Strategica group, already a technical sponsor of the exhibition “Palcoscenici Archeologici. Francesco Vezzoli”, in progress in the Fondazione Brescia Musei, has been chosen as the insurance partner of this artists’ new project. Strategica Group’s activity parts from an analysis of the possible risk scenarios to projecting the risk mitigation solutions, all the way to defining and managing a tailor made insurance coverage.
“This represents a particularly complex project – explains Rosa Alba Acquaviva, director of the Private and Fine Art division of Strategica Group – these are piece of arts of an immense value. They are imponent, of grand dimensions, and require a particular transportation mode. Furthermore, they are located on two different websites, one of which, Piazza della Signoria, which by its opened air culture and gathering point character, presents diverse criticalities and is exposed to major risks with respect to other more protected venues, like museums and galleries”.
The second project of the Florence Art Week that has put Strategica in the first plan was the show hosted by Galleria Poggiali, by the name of “Colori nelle mani”. It is an exhibition of the Austrian artist Arnulf Rainer, curated by Helmut Friedel. Starting on October 2nd, the exhibition offers forty-four (44) unpublished paintings, specially chosen throughout recurrent meetings with the artist, especially coming from works that came to light between 1981 and 1985, from the series of works created by marking the surface with a pictorial power directly with the fingers and hands.
"Precisely because of the great value of these works of art, we chose to rely on Strategica Group, a company whose professionalism and confidentiality we recognize," explains the gallery manager, Lorenzo Poggiali.
"We are very proud to have been identified by the prestigious Galleria Poggiali as a technical partner for this project - confirms Enrico Guarnerio, President of Strategica Group - The art world has many peculiar characteristics and dynamics: protecting it requires deep knowledge of both insurance solutions and the art sector itself, in all its complexities, rules and criticalities. For this reason, our team is composed of professionals with many years of proven experience, highly specialized in technical terms, able to understand the meaning of the works and, last but not least, who are motivated by real love for the world of art, culture and beauty".
The team of Strategica was given the honor to be a guest at the award presentation ceremony of Rinascimento+, an initiative arising from Museo Novecento and MUS.E, dedicated to those who have distinguished themselves with their support of art and the artists.
Gemma De Angelis Testa, Heiner Friedrich, Giuliano Gori, Maria Manetti Shrem, Leonid Mikhelson and Margherita Stabiumi were presented with a special award: the Crisalide Sole jewel created by Maria Sole Ferragamo, granddaughter of the great Salvatore.
“The world Renaissance” should be a forward-looking term. Not a superficial research of past experiences. In order to experience renaissance today, we need to be brave and leave our experiences in the past. A great artist has the courage to confront and dialogue the past. Todays reward has a precious meaning. It is not only a way to thank the awarded, but brings forward the following message: “You are the true patrons of today’s Renaissance, as the patrons of the past were” -in the words of Dario Nardella, Mayor of Florence.
“This Florence Art Week is particularly significant because it includes the entire city and it is born from a concept of diffusing art, which is embedded into Florence’s DNA” comments Sergio Risaliti.
We would like to distinguish some of the initiatives exposed during the Florence Art Week.
Jenny Saville, the most quoted woman in the world, a protagonist who through the potent color of her paintings tells the stories of faces marked with eternal beauty.
The exhibition “Andature” by Daniela De Lorenzo and Chiara Bettazzi is exposed at Museo Marini, talking about time’s multiple dimensions through some video insta. These are two artists active on the Italian and the international scene for a while. The exibition is curated by Antonell Nicola, Marcella Cangioli e Saretto Cincinelli.
Finally, the famous Jeff Koons present Shine, exhibition which offers a selection of works that incorporate the concept of “lightness” as a game of ambiguity between splendor and glow, between being and appearing.
