Mirabilis

Group show at Palazzo Meravigli. On the occasion of the exhibition, Fracassi is the winner of the Mario Golé acquisition prize with Orgoglio e Pregiudizio.

Press Release Exhibition title: MIRABILIS — “Eastriver meets Brera” Project by: Brera Academy of Fine Arts – Milan Eastriver Martesana – Milan Curated by: Marco Casentini, Dany Vescovi Collaboration by: Marco Cingolani, Alberto Mattia Martini, Alex Pinna Critical text: Alberto Mattia Martini PREMIO Mario Golé

The Eastriver association has established a prize in memory of Mario Golé, one or more cash prizes to be awarded to the most interesting students within the exhibition. We hope that Mario’s story will serve as an example for many talents so that they can realise their own success stories, each different but all with a single common denominator: a great strength of will.

The Eastriver cultural association, in collaboration with the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, presents: Mirabilis, an exhibition of the most deserving students from the prestigious academic institution of Milan. The event aims to promote a space dedicated to young artists of the Milanese Academy, and to make the city aware of the artistic potential of the new generations, building on their enthusiasm and their already mature abilities. The exhibition set up in the spaces of Palazzo Meravigli consists of the presentation of over 80 students from the Academy of Brera with more than 200 works. The students will exhibit works in the show that make use of different artistic modes of expression: painting, sculpture, video, photography, installation.

As art critic Alberto Mattia Martini states in the presentation text for the exhibition: ”[…] In the heart of the centre of Milan, within the historic Palazzo Meravigli, and subsequently in the more bucolic setting of the Naviglio Martesana, art dialogues and interacts with the spaces, forming a suggestive mirabilis dimension, conveying to the viewer a significant sensation of enchantment, involving them and provoking ‘a marvellous magnetism of wonder’. The students of the Brera Academy courses have made use of the broadest and most varied expressive languages and media: from the most traditional to the most innovative, also using new technologies, in correspondence with the codes and idioms of the current time. […] All the exhibited works give rise to an image that we could condense into a research that has its starting point in the history of world events, from the memory of the collective, to then proceed towards the ‘myth’ of humanity and even more intimately and sensitively, in that type of reminiscence that belongs to the intimate life of each of us. This exhibition wishes to be a kind of permanent laboratory for the students, which has already been realised in other exhibition experiences, based on contemporaneity, research, imagination, dialogue and interdisciplinarity”. The young artists were nominated by the various teachers of the courses present at the Academy, giving preference to the courses in Painting and Sculpture identified during the three-year and the specialist two-year programmes.