Presentation of the monograph DARIO MAGLIONICO WHERE SUSPENDED TIME LIVE

Edited by Nicoletta Colombo - VAF-Stiftung Collection "Young artists at the threshold of the new millennium" - Manfredi Edizioni, 2023

The intimate and familiar dimension of the Bagatti Valsecchi House-Museum combines perfectly with the pictorial representations of interiors by the young artist DARIO MAGLIONICO, whose monograph is being presented at the museum.

TUESDAY 4 APRIL 2023 at 6:00 PM BAGATTI VALSECCHI MUSEUM, Milan

Speakers:

Serena Redaelli, member of the VAF-Stiftung Scientific Committee

Nicoletta Colombo, curator of the monograph and member of the VAF-Stiftung Scientific Committee

Dario Maglionico, artist

The new appointment of the series “Young artists at the threshold of the new millennium series”, promoted by the VAF-Stiftung for the types of Manfredi Edizioni, summarizes in the title, DARIO MAGLIONICO. Where suspended time lives, declined between dream and reality, the activity of the decade 2013-2023 of a young artist faithful to figuration, yet interpreter of a poetics conjugated between solitude and presence-absence, between mystery and sense of reality.

Since his first solo exhibition, organized in Lecce in 2015, through the numerous international awards that have seen him constantly among the finalists, Dario Maglionico, neapolitan by birth and Milanese by adoption, has developed with coherence and continuity a language of translation into images and visions of the personal processes of study and questioning between individual and collective memory, between relationships of space and time. Artistic, psychological, scientific explorations, developed in pictorial representations of architecturally impeccable interiors, optically sharp, disturbed by unexpected and enigmatic displacements and sudden interruptions of image.

The volume, edited by Nicoletta Colombo, presents a rich iconographic repertoire of works, rigorously made in oil on canvas and in many cases enlarged in the most effective details, results faithful to a formulation according to three cycles in progress that define the artist's activity, respectively titled Reificazioni, Studi del buio and Acausality. The real bordering on the unreal, of which the monograph offers ample testimony, is the signature of the activity of the young Maglionico, who through highly experimental outcomes and paths, captivating and disorienting at the same time, has always pursued the symbolic investigation of fragmented elements of the truth, suspended in a dreamlike and pre-logical dimension.

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DARIO MAGLIONICO. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

DARIO MAGLIONICO was born in Naples in 1986. In 2015 he inaugurated his first solo exhibition, “Claustrophilia”, curated by Ivan Quaroni, at the Galleria Riva Arte Contemporanea, Lecce. He decided to devote himself exclusively to painting and moved to Milan. In 2016 he won the “Hi Fructose x Ello Emerging Artist Showcase” award and received a special mention at the “Premio Marchionni”, Muso MAGMMA, Villacidro.

In 2017 he began his collaboration with the Galleria Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan and inaugurated the solo exhibition “Everything at Once”, curated by Ivan Quaroni. In October of the same year he inaugurated the solo exhibition “When I am, I was”, curated by Sharon Di Carlo at APART spaziocritico, Vicenza. In 2019 he participated in the “VIII Premio Fondazione VAF” and exhibited his works at the Mart, Rovereto and the Stadtgalerie, Kiel. Actually he is present with some works in the collection of the VAF-Stiftung.