{"id":101077,"date":"2012-04-04T10:01:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T08:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.castellodirivoli.org\/mostra\/nicola-de-maria-cinque-o-sei-lance-spezzate-a-favore-del-coraggio-e-della-virtu-five-or-six-spears-broken-in-favour-of-courage-and-virtue\/"},"modified":"2012-04-04T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T08:01:18","slug":"nicola-de-maria-cinque-o-sei-lance-spezzate-a-favore-del-coraggio-e-della-virtu-five-or-six-spears-broken-in-favour-of-courage-and-virtue","status":"publish","type":"mostra","link":"https:\/\/www.castellodirivoli.org\/en\/mostra\/nicola-de-maria-cinque-o-sei-lance-spezzate-a-favore-del-coraggio-e-della-virtu-five-or-six-spears-broken-in-favour-of-courage-and-virtue\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicola De Maria. Cinque o sei lance spezzate a favore del coraggio e della virt\u00f9 (five or six spears broken in favour of courage and virtue)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is hard to describe the creative universe of Nicola De Maria (Foglianise, Benevento, Italy, 1954) with normal artistic terms, and his work is consequently compared with other disciplines, such as music and poetry, that seem better to express his lyrical, intimate vision of art and life in general. A leading figure in the Transavanguardia movement, De Maria is the one member of the group who has most distanced himself from figurative painting, preferring a more abstract type of imagery composed predominantly of colours, words and signs, through which he expresses and renders visible the intimate, perceptible universe. By endowing colour with elevated spiritual values, and using imagery that refers to life\u2019s minutiae and nature\u2019s gifts \u2013 flowers, the sea, sky and moon \u2013 De Maria produces paintings and installations that move towards the creation of a lyrical microcosm, making them appear to abandon the physical dimension of the canvas and diffuse into space. The installation he created for the Castello di Rivoli \u2013 in which he decorated the walls of one of the rooms with multi-coloured paint \u2013 is perfectly in tune with his poetic vision of art, and completely transcends the building\u2019s historical character to create an environment that is unique and absorbing. The viewer is invited to enter this world, and is irresistibly drawn to the canvases set within the painted walls like precious gems, whose discreet presence seems to point to the possibility of a lyrical transcription of the artist\u2019s intimate universe.
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