Panorama Monopoli

After last year’s first edition, which was held on the island of Procida, this year “Panorama” proposes a new itinerary between art, architecture, antiquity, and the contemporary, full of events open to the public, performances, and special projects.

Panorama Monopoli intends to present itself as a choral tale inspired by the Greek concept of “xenia”, to which each of the selected works contributes by offering multiple readings of universal themes that, from the 15th century to the present day, have inspired the creativity of artists from different eras.

The exhibition itinerary winds its way through the ancient historical centre of the Adriatic town, in twenty exhibition spaces among palaces, churches, squares, votive aedicules in which seventy works from the 15th century to the present day are housed, including seven performance works, created by sixty international artists of different ages, generations, and nationalities.

This year Italics proposes two special projects: an exhibition celebrating the awarding of the Italics d’Oro for the career of Lisetta Carmi (Genoa, 1924 – Cisternino, 2022) and an invitation to the artist Francesco Arena to imagine signs that will accompany Panorama and its visitors even after the exhibition is over. Lisetta Carmi‘s work will then be the protagonist of an exhibition developed in collaboration with the international photography and art festival PhEST – See Beyond the Sea, which will include a selection of unpublished shots taken in 1960 between Puglia and Basilicata and will remain open to the public for the entire duration of the festival, from 9 September to 1 November 2022.

Artists: Mario Airò, Francesco Arena, Stefano Arienti, Gianfranco Baruchello, Luca Bertolo, Paolo Bini, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Duilio Cambellotti, Mariana Castillo Deball, Adelaide Cioni, Pietro Consagra, Maria Adele Del Vecchio, Gaia Di Lorenzo, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Mimosa Echard, Sam Falls, Matteo Fato, Cesare Fracanzano, Massimo Grimaldi, Edi Hila Judith Hopf, Adelita Husni-Bey, Alfredo Jaar, Ann Veronica Janssens, Runo Lagomarsino, Giovanni Lanfranco, Francesco Laurana e Nicola Samorì, Jieun Lim, Lorenzo Lippi, Carlo Manieri, Franca Maranò, Richard Marquis & Johanna Nitzke Marquis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Luzie Meyer, Diego Miguel Mirabella, François Morellet, Valerio Nicolai, Alessandro Piangiamore, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gianni Politi, Nathlie Provosty, Giangiacomo Rossetti, Medardo Rosso, Mimmo Rotella, Antonio Sanfilippo, Alberto Savinio, Aviva Silverman, Carl-August-Wilhelm Sommer, Eugenio Tibaldi, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Massimo Vitali, Luca Vitone, Stanley Whitney, Antonio Zanchi.