Luca Vitone at Rolando Anselmi

Artist: Luca Vitone

Exhibition title: Ancora su Villa Adriana

Venue: Rolando Anselmi, Rome, Italy

Date: March 26 – June 3, 2022

Photography: Sebastiano Luciano / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Rolando Anselmi, Berlin/Rome

Rolando Anselmi is pleased to announce Ancora su Villa Adriana, Luca Vitone’s first solo exhibition at the gallery in Rome.

The self-representation of places, as emblems of culture, historical events and morphological features, is pivotal within Luca Vitone’s artistic practice. The intention to portray a space on the pictorial canvas is combined with the specific research of the environmental characteristics that constitute the ‘places of power’. The series of monochromes, set up on the two floors of the gallery, owes its name to the conceptual self-portrait of the Tiburtine ruins on the canvases that, once exposed to the atmospheric agents of certain spaces of the Villa, not only become lenses for the observation of the place, but also cataloguers of its natural shape. The atmospheric agents thus become witnesses to the private dimension of the Villa, as the Emperor’s residence and, at the same time, an allegory of his power.

The study of the complex cultural and geographic stratigraphy of the place also unfolds through I Capricci, engravings by Giambattista Piranesi on which Vitone intervenes by tracing musical notes in ink that emerge from the ruins. The movement of the notes testifies to the imperial residence’s link with music and becomes a metaphorical image of a cultural memory that comes from the roots of the land.

Luca Vitone (1964, Genova, Italy) lives and works in Berlin and Milan. Major solo exhibitions include: Museo Novecento (Florence, 2022), MAXXI (Rome, 2021), Weserburg Museum (Bremen, 2021), CSAC (Parma, 2020), Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Prato, 2019; 2004), Galerie Nagel Draxler (Berlin, 2018; 2014; 2008), Galerie Michel Rein (Bruxelles, 2018; Paris, 2016; 2010), Galleria Pinksummer (Genova, 2018; 2013; 2010), Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (Milan, 2017), Museo Novecento (Milan, 2017), Chiostri di Sant’Eustorgio – Museo Diocesano (Milan, 2017), n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin, 2014), Fondazione Brodbeck (Catania, 2012), Museion (Bolzano, 2012), GAMeC (Bergamo, 2008), OK Centrum (Linz, 2007) MART (Rovereto, 2007), Casino Luxembourg (Luxembourg, 2006).

He has taken part in numerous group exhibitions, including: MAMbo (Bologna, 2021), MACRO (Rome, 2020; 2016), Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Milan, 2019), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Rome, 2019), MAXXI (Rome, 2018; 2016; 2015; 2010), Palazzo del Quirinale (Roma, 2017), Q.16 Quadriennale d’Arte (Rome, 2016), Palazzo della Triennale (Milan, 2015), Museion (Bolzano, 2015; 2008; 2005; 2003), Castello di Rivara (Turin, 2014; 1992), La Biennale di Venezia – 55° Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte (Venice, 2013), MART (Rovereto, 2013), Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (Milan, 2014; 2010; 2006), Casino Luxembourg (Luxembourg, 2007), La Biennale di Venezia – 50° Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte (Venice, 2003).

His works are part of museum collections and institutions, such as: MAXXI (Rome), Palazzo Riso (Palermo), Fondazione Brodbeck (Catania), Nomas Foundation (Rome), CSAC (Parma), Museo Novecento (Milan), MAMbo (Bologna), Museion (Bolzano), GAMeC (Bergamo), Museo MAGA (Gallarate), Museo Ettore Fico (Turin), n.b.k Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin), Lenbachhaus (Munich).

Luca Vitone, Ancora su Villa Adriana, 2022, exhibition view, Rolando Anselmi, Rome

Luca Vitone, 2021, Io, Villa Adriana (Veduta di camerino presso il Canopo), 205 x 145 cm, ph. Sebastiano Luciano

Luca Vitone, 1770 – 2021, Capricci (Veduta degli avanzi del Castro Pretorio nella Villa Adriana a Tivoli, disegnato da Giovanni Battista Piranesi), 53,5 x 78cm, ph. Sebastiano Luciano

Luca Vitone, 1768 – 2022, Capricci (Avanzi del Tempio detto di Appollo nella Villa Adriana vicino a Tivoli, disegnato da Giovanni Battista Piranesi), 53,5 x 74 cm, ph. Sebastiano Luciano

Luca Vitone, 2021, Io, Villa Adriana (Veduta di passeggiata pensando al Pecile), 205 x 140cm, ph. Sebastiano Luciano

Luca Vitone, Ancora su Villa Adriana, 2022, exhibition view, Rolando Anselmi, Rome

Luca Vitone, 2021, Io, Villa Adriana (Paesaggio visto dalle Piccole Terme), 205 x 140cm, ph. Sebastiano Luciano

Luca Vitone, 2021, Io, Villa Adriana (Veduta del Canopo da due finestre), 205 x 145 cm, ph. Sebastiano Luciano

Luca Vitone, 2021, Io, Villa Adriana (Veduta dall’Osservatorio di Roccabruna), 205 x 150cm, ph. Sebastiano Luciano

Luca Vitone, 1774 – 2021, Capricci (Rovina di uno degli alloggiamenti de’ Soldati a una delle eminenti fabbriche di Adriano nella sua Villa Adriana, disegnato da Giovanni Battista Piranesi), 44,5 x 63,5 cm, ph. Sebastiano Luciano

Luca Vitone, 1776 – 2021, Capricci (Veduta degli Avanzi della Circonferenza delle antiche Fabbriche di una delle Piazze della Villa Adriana oggidì chiamata Piazza d’oro disegnato da Giovanni Battista Piranesi), 45,6 x 58,8 cm, ph. Sebastiano Luciano

Luca Vitone, 2021, Io, Villa Adriana (Veduta dalle Cento Camerelle), 205 x 145 cm, ph. Sebastiano Luciano

Luca Vitone, 2021, Io, Villa Adriana (Paesaggio nei pressi di Hospitalia), 205 x 130 cm, ph. Sebastiano Luciano

Luca Vitone, 2021, Io, Villa Adriana (Paesaggio visto dal Ninfeo), 205 x 140 cm, ph. Sebastiano Luciano