Di Terra, Di Luce, Di Aria: it is the exhibition dedicated to the recently deceased painter-sculptor Alessio Paternesi, inaugurated on 9 March in the Doebbing palace in Sutri, in the province of Viterbo.
Over 100 works are on display, including canvases and bronzes, created by the brilliant hand of the internationally renowned artist in over 60 years of career.
The inauguration was held in the auditorium of the building, packed with Paternesi's friends and admirers.
Present, in addition to the mayor of Sutri Matteo Amori, were the artist's daughter Monica Paternesi, his wife Danka Schroeder, the cultural delegate of the Municipality Claudia Mercuri, Francesco Aliperti of Archeoares and the curator of the exhibition Pietro Paolo Lateano, who personally found and restored two unpublished works by the master: a canvas, perhaps the largest ever created by Paternesi, and a high relief in silver foil created with a difficult technique of overlapping materials.
Also present were the president of the parliamentary Environment commission Mauro Rotelli, the regional councilor Daniele Sabatini, the president of the Province Alessandro Romoli and the mayor of Civita Castellana Luca Profili, who recently awarded the artist honorary citizenship.
"My father fought for over fifty years for the valorization of this splendid territory that he loved - said Monica Paternesi -. I must thank all of you for the extraordinary work you have done to set up this exhibition. But I must also thank this new feeling that is in many of these administrators that I have here in front of me, and I also make a generational difference: I see Luca, the president of the Province, I see Francesco, I see Matteo, I see Claudia, I see all of you and I have the feeling that finally the The idea of valorising this territory has become a common thread which can unite many differences and which is worth carrying forward all together. A final thank you, perhaps the greatest, is for the affection and warmth with which you have done all this ".
The emotional fulcrum of the exhibition is the room of the palace where the art studio in which Paternesi loved to create his works has been faithfully reconstructed, using the original objects.
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