Two Roman artists of different generations, Ernesto Porcari and Corina Surdu, are the authors of the print portfolio published this year by the “Amici della Biblioteca Luisia” Association of Vigone. It is a well-established and long-running initiative aimed at promoting art, now consecutively in its 33rd edition, which allows members to acquire an authentic art print by each of the two selected artists and enables everyone to visit a double solo exhibition set up in the historic rooms of the “Luisia” Municipal Library, offering the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of both artists’ work. The exhibition will be inaugurated, in the presence of the artists, on Saturday, November 29 at 5 p.m. at Via Umberto I no. 9, in Vigone.
Corina Surdu, a young artist of Moldovan origin, graduated in Painting in 2015 and in Art Graphics in 2018 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. She already boasts participation in various group exhibitions in Italy and abroad, as well as several prestigious solo exhibitions in Rome and Milan. In 2022 she won first prize, in the youth category, at the International Biennial of Printmaking in Acqui Terme.
“My research originates from the landscape and expands into an inner dimension that cannot be mapped. The heart of the work is the atmosphere — an immaterial quality generated by the interaction between chromatic suspension and luminous vibration — which becomes the essence of the image. Through tonal modulations and glazing, light and color act as perceptual devices, opening up an uncertain depth in which the surface becomes space, oscillating between what is revealed and what remains suspended,” explains Corina Surdu, speaking about her 2024 woodcut Wildflowers, included in the Vigone print portfolio of original graphics.
TONINO RIVOLO