The official App ot the exhibition “East and West. Allegories and symbols of the Mediterranean tradition. Installations by Navid Azimi Sajadi”, is organized by the Palermo Superintendence for Cultural and Environmental Heritage, in collaboration with the Archdiocese of Monreale and MondoMostre. The exhibition connects two extraordinary monumental works of Sicilian Arab- Norman art, UNESCO World Heritage sites the Monreale Cathedral monumental complex and the Zisa.
The exhibition, curated by Lina Bellanca and Alessandro Carlino, brings together stories and symbols carved onto the capitals of the Benedictine Cloister and the Duomo’s chapels, along with photographs from the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz-Max-Planck-Institut archive, site-speciTic installations by Iranian artist Navid Azimi Sajadi and this special App dedicated to the exhibition with music by Pinuccio Pirazzoli.
Inspired by the iconography of the monumental complex, works by artist Navid Azimi Sajadi are being exhibited in the Monreale Cloister, the halls of the Diocesan Museum and the San Benedetto Chapel in the Duomo, sparking a modern-day dialogue between Middle Eastern art and the Western Mediterranean. Navid Azimi Sajadi’s art and poetics refer to these very same representations. Much like William II, King of Sicily – known as “William the Good” for reestablishing a climate of peace and inter-religious coexistence, who had a dream and dedicated the Church in Monreale to the Madonna and Child (the pivotal, coordinated image of this exhibition) – today, looking on this architectural wonder, the artist has ventured on a dreamlike inner journey through allegories and symbols, signs and anthropomorphic evocations of the different cults hidden within the capitals.
The exhibition continues in Palermo, on 24 November at Zisa. Curated by Ashkan Zahraei and Giuseppe Moscatello, the Artist embarks on a Residence during which he is creating works in situ involving visitors during the various creative stages, with glazed ceramics, gold powder surfaces and all the materials through which the Artist attempts to reproduce what the images, shapes and memories conjure up in him, creating a metaphorical environment in which it is possible to reconnect a wide range of meanings through time and space. The result will be a visual glimpse of the crossroads of history and mythology, and an attempt to reTlect on the cultures of East and West.
The exhibition, curated by Lina Bellanca and Alessandro Carlino, brings together stories and symbols carved onto the capitals of the Benedictine Cloister and the Duomo’s chapels, along with photographs from the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz-Max-Planck-Institut archive, site-speciTic installations by Iranian artist Navid Azimi Sajadi and this special App dedicated to the exhibition with music by Pinuccio Pirazzoli.
Inspired by the iconography of the monumental complex, works by artist Navid Azimi Sajadi are being exhibited in the Monreale Cloister, the halls of the Diocesan Museum and the San Benedetto Chapel in the Duomo, sparking a modern-day dialogue between Middle Eastern art and the Western Mediterranean. Navid Azimi Sajadi’s art and poetics refer to these very same representations. Much like William II, King of Sicily – known as “William the Good” for reestablishing a climate of peace and inter-religious coexistence, who had a dream and dedicated the Church in Monreale to the Madonna and Child (the pivotal, coordinated image of this exhibition) – today, looking on this architectural wonder, the artist has ventured on a dreamlike inner journey through allegories and symbols, signs and anthropomorphic evocations of the different cults hidden within the capitals.
The exhibition continues in Palermo, on 24 November at Zisa. Curated by Ashkan Zahraei and Giuseppe Moscatello, the Artist embarks on a Residence during which he is creating works in situ involving visitors during the various creative stages, with glazed ceramics, gold powder surfaces and all the materials through which the Artist attempts to reproduce what the images, shapes and memories conjure up in him, creating a metaphorical environment in which it is possible to reconnect a wide range of meanings through time and space. The result will be a visual glimpse of the crossroads of history and mythology, and an attempt to reTlect on the cultures of East and West.
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