Galleria Torbandena in Trieste inaugurates a personal exhibition dedicated to CVETO MARSIC. The exhibit, entitled Acqua Madre, is thoroughly dedicated to the most recent production of the Slovenian artist now living in Portugal.

Acqua Madre some twenty art-pieces - both small and big sizes on paper and on canvas - bringing Marsic's work back to the use of colour: colour as the absolute mean of communication to which the artist refers to disclose the meaning of his art. An intense light embraces the substance of his paintings, the vivid tonalities of the reds cut off by the blazing whites and yellows, the pink or the black full of stars colour it bringing back life into it and, as if they were the sun, stop time and seasons: it is the dark land brought back to light again after a long time, a metaphoric twisting land, almost liquid by now, where, because of the total abstraction of the lines, it is not possible to envisage any end, almost a sort of primordial universe originating all the shapes of human things and in which light and colour are pure energy. And in fact Acqua Madre are called the therapeutic remains of Capodistria's saline waters, a sea of mud and life without which the artist ­ as he himself declared ­ would not be the same for sure.

After the important exhibitions organised by the Foundation for Contemporary Art Don Luis I in Cascais (Portugal) and that in Palacio Revillagigedo in Gijòn (Spain), the series of personal exhibits promoted by European Museums and Foundations of Contemporary Art and dedicated to Cveto Marsic's art is continuing. The exhibition at Morat Institut fur Künst und Künstwissenschaft in Fribourg (Germany) has in fact just ended but some brand-new ones have already been planned and they will be held in 2006 at Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano in Badajoz (Spain) and at the City Art Museum/Mestna Galerija in Lubiana (Slovenia), along with the great personal exhibition which will be hosted at the Galleria Mario Sequeira in Braga, the most important Portuguese private gallery.

For those interested, the catalogue created for the Morat Institut, in collaboration with Galleria Torbandena and Galerie Stefan Roepke in Cologne and Madrid, will be available for purchase.

Opening October 7, 2005.

The exhibition will be open until November 6, 2005.

Opening Hours: Monday 4.00 - 8.00 pm, Tuesday to Saturday 10.00 am - 13.00 pm and 4.00 - 8.00 pm or privately upon appointment.

Go to the page of Cveto Marsic.