PRESS RELEASE

Tuesday, 25 February 2025

THE ART OF LANDSCAPE ON VIEW AT PALAZZO SARCINELLI

Opening on Saturday, 8 March at 6 pm: Anatomy of a Landscape at the Galleria del Novecento, featuring contemporary artists Bellobono, Coser, Frangi, and Scolamiero.

From 8 March to 13 April, the Galleria del Novecento at Palazzo Sarcinelli in Conegliano will host the exhibition Anatomy of a Landscape, curated by Alberto Dambruoso and Fabio Cosentino, and promoted by La Chiave di Sophia and INTArt. The show will feature 40 canvases by four major contemporary Italian artists who interpret the natural landscape as a lens into the inner dimension of human existence: Angelo Bellobono, Luca Coser, Giovanni Frangi, and Vincenzo Scolamiero.

The exhibition will open on Saturday, 8 March at 6 pm at Palazzo Sarcinelli, with the presence of the artists and curators, followed by a convivial gathering. During its run, visitors will be able to join guided tours with the curators and attend special events. Admission is free. The initiative enjoys the patronage of the Veneto Region, the Province of Treviso, the City of Conegliano, the Landscape Observatory of the Hills of Alta Marca, Rotary Club Conegliano, and Fisar Treviso.

Anatomy of a Landscape presents 40 works by four Italian painters, among the most prominent on the contemporary art scene: Angelo Bellobono, based in Rome; Luca Coser and Giovanni Frangi, active in Milan where they teach at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera; and Vincenzo Scolamiero, also a professor, at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, where he lives and works.

The common thread among the works exhibited in the Galleria del Novecento is an exploration of landscape—conceived both as inner dimension and as natural environment hosting our existence—through the artist’s gaze. Despite their diverse poetics, all four interpret a kind of painting born from the obsessive search for a porous threshold between figuration and abstraction: a non-place comparable to the concept of a liminal space, simultaneously inside and outside. These works do not aim to seduce the viewer with romantic evocations or easy charm; rather, they invite a cultured, ironic gaze upon a landscape that is present yet veiled, bearing witness to a beauty that is unresolved, enigmatic, and mysterious.

Curator Fabio Cosentino explains that the project stems from the desire to overlap the fictive act of artistic creation with the given reality of the natural landscape, in search of an ideal symbiosis capable of producing reflection and emotion—a sensibility placing at its core the network of relationships between human beings and an environment understood as both physical and immaterial geography.

The exhibition is open free of charge from Thursday to Sunday at the following times: Thursday and Friday from 5:00 to 7:30 pm; Saturday and Sunday from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm and from 3:30 to 7:30 pm.

Special events will enrich the program. In addition to the vernissage on Saturday, 8 March at 6 pm, three guided tours with curator Fabio Cosentino will be held: Saturday, 22 March; Sunday, 30 March; and Sunday, 6 April, all at 5 pm. A special event is scheduled for Thursday, 13 March at 8:45 pm: a poetry reading by actress Elena Girardello, accompanied by music inspired by the theme of landscape.

The exhibition is sponsored by: Regione del Veneto, Provincia di Treviso, Città di Conegliano, Osservatorio per il Paesaggio delle Colline dell’Alta Marca, Rotary Club Conegliano, Fisar Treviso. Project supporters include Carraro Group, Gava Imballaggi, Green Consulting, Ghedin Immobiliare, Light On, Palazzo Galletti, Saccon Arredamenti, Ferracin Abbigliamento, Emanuele Nardin Costruzioni, Generali Assicurazioni G. Mazzini Conegliano, CSC Servizi Contabili. Technical sponsors: Amorim Cork Italia, Dema Pubblicità/Magazine Qualbuonvento, Tralog, Ca’ del Poggio, Le Manzane, Fisar Treviso.

Mayor of Conegliano, Fabio Chies, declares:
“Anatomy of a Landscape, the new exhibition opening on 8 March at the Galleria del Novecento in Palazzo Sarcinelli, explores the connection between the external environment and the innermost feelings and emotions of humankind, through works that capture the essence of landscapes and nature. Thanks to the pictorial skills of the four artists—Angelo Bellobono, Luca Coser, Giovanni Frangi, and Vincenzo Scolamiero—the gallery will offer visitors and tourists images that investigate the boundary between figuration and abstraction. Special thanks go to curator Fabio Cosentino for his thoughtful installation, in a setting like Conegliano, where the surrounding nature and the Prosecco Hills provide the perfect backdrop and have marked the city’s history.”

Conegliano’s Councillor for Culture, Cristina Sardi, adds:
“Entitled Anatomy of a Landscape, this exhibition features four Italian painters, among the best known on today’s art scene: Angelo Bellobono, Luca Coser, Giovanni Frangi, and Vincenzo Scolamiero. Two of them—Frangi and Scolamiero—were already hosted at Palazzo Sarcinelli in the 1980s, leaving the Municipality two works that are now part of the rich collection of the Palazzo. I wish to thank the associations INTArt, La Chiave di Sophia, curators Alberto Dambruoso and Fabio Cosentino, and all those who contributed to organizing this important exhibition, which will offer powerful emotions and which I warmly recommend to all.”

Curator Alberto Dambruoso comments:
“In the works presented by Frangi, Scolamiero, Coser, and Bellobono, it is evident how landscape and nature—captured in their diverse and multiple aspects—represent, for most of them, the foundation of their research. While each maintains his own stylistic identity, affinities emerge even in their technical execution: mountain landscapes, trees, leaves, plants, forests tend to become rarefied until they verge on abstraction. The viewer perceives, in most of their works, only a distant echo of these motifs. The nature represented is never explicit, but rather hinted at, whispered.”

Finally, Elena Casagrande of La Chiave di Sophia and Giovanna Pattaro of INTArt remark:
“We are delighted to offer Conegliano’s citizens a new artistic event, and to return to a theme deeply connected to this territory: the landscape. Art is always an extraordinary vehicle of reflection and sharing.”