Milan: 65 years after the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Milan presents the exhibition “SACRED CLOUDS” by contemporary artist Roberto Coda Zabetta at Palazzo Reale, promoted by the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Milan, produced and organized by Palazzo Reale in collaboration with mc2gallery and curated by Claudio Composti. From the artist’s deep bond with the East and from his painting characterized by black and white splinters, 15 new large canvases are born with which Roberto Coda Zabetta denounces human folly and shows his vision of the tragedy that marked Japan in the August 1945. “The clouds are a poetic, evanescent and mysterious element that can also take on the tragic forms of explosion and destruction” explains the Councilor for Culture Massimiliano Finazzer Flory. “This exhibition is a pictorial investigation that returns to more resumed on the same motif, on that “atomic mushroom” bringer of death and defeat. In the disfigured or deformed faces, in the expression of an ancestral cry, the artist takes a turn towards these gigantic clouds that break into the canvas”. “SACRED CLOUDS” is the title that the artist has chosen for this new and unprecedented cycle of works. For years Coda Zabetta has been painting suggestive screaming faces made with gestures of color rather than outlined by defined contours. In this explosion of the pictorial sign we can perhaps trace the anticipation of the new work in which fragments of color take the form of disturbing atomic mushrooms. “The inspiration came after a trip to Japan – says the curator of the exhibition Claudio Composti. ” Back in the Marche region, the suggestion of the clouds that furrow the skies taking on strange shapes, sometimes of atomic mushrooms that rise from the hills, reminded Coda Zabetta of one of the events that marked not only the history of Japan but of the entire 20th century.“The very rare video “Navel and A-Bomb“ from 1960, directed by the great photographer Eikoh Hosoe and interpreted by the dancer and performer Tatsumi Hijikata, founder of Butoh dance, born as a form of rebellion of the generation that lived the tragedy of the atomic bomb.
The exhibition is scheduled from July 28 to August 29. Admission is free.The catalog is published by 24 ORE Cultura ” Gruppo 24 Ore.