From May 20 to June 18, at Salsomaggiore Terme Berzieri, takes place a remarkable collection of sculptors of Parma, entitled "Volumes in freedom." Ten artists, diverse in age, style, approach to the subject and career, but all share the matrix Parma: Mauro Becchi, Luciano Belletti, Maurizio Catellani, Carmen Coruzzi, Joseph Pongolini, Gian Reverberi, Rino Sgavetta, Giorgio Varani, Massimiliano Vasta, Maurizio Zaccardi. Ten teachers of the subject, contrary to the subject, as each of them approaches to a specific material: iron, bronze, raku ceramics, wood, terracotta, marble, mixed media. The elegant atmosphere of the spa Berzieri welcomes visitors, but the greatest pleasure awaits them in the eyes the rooms and wide corridors that house the exhibition in the basement. "Ten sculptors were invited to the Parma Berzieri under the theme Volumes in Freedom, a theme that is-not-theme, to allow everyone to make the best of themselves. I must now mention Maurizio Zaccardi, very active in the last two three years for a variety of personal and monuments that they have put him at the top of the sculpture local success has in fact received the sympathetic portrait of the poet "mat Safe", a bronze visitatissimo in the square of the mill, but pressed now to Brother Joseph 'Annunziata, Guareschi in Fontanelle (with bicycle in front of schools) and Arturo Toscanini, who could find a place in the square San Francis, before the House of Music. In this review, Salsomaggiore, Zaccardi has the bronze and marble "Feme" ironic engagement between past and present, made for the exhibition on the myth in 2004 in Rocca di Sala Baganza, the elegant, allusive "Women's violin", having also all ' Paganini Auditorium during a recent concert, a small figure in bronze and marble, a material with the stone and stained glass from Murano, which features the latest production artist. How Zaccardi is an artist of remarkable creativity and high technical Coruzzi Carmen, owner of Studio Kan Via Felice Cavallotti, a sculptor (raku pottery) that walls from classic shapes surreal irony for entries and deformation of matter: his characters with a nail or an ax planted in the head have become classics of children of Parma, as well as all the recent series of magical shoes. But the show continues to Trecasali Pongolini Joseph, came to sculpture nongiovanissimo, but the forged irons with great skill and imagination. Then, Gian Reverberi of Bicester, who is also a painter, architect and graphic: here presents the stucco and ceramic plexiglass interesting effect. Luciano Belletti using the Felino olive wood and religious symbols to tell the angels, perhaps affected by the Evangelist Garden of Olives. Rino Sgavetta, known as a figurative painter Fidenza, here is offered as an inventor of forms in wood, thin and modulated looking for a space after many years of landscape narrative. Maurizio Catellani Noceto of the movement in its search for "acrobat" of iron and wood and in the composition of slender wood from stone. Mauro Becchi Tabiano is also working with Carrara marble with wood, using a symbolic figure. Massimiliano Vasta, Catania-Parmesan cheese, marble and stone facing with great elegance and professionalism. Giorgio Varani, finally, Salsomaggiore, is a bit 'the creator of this interesting exhibition and its marble cakes are filled with figures in a harmonious, where love emerges at every opportunity. a review to see and, perhaps, to "touch". Tiziano Marcheselli, introduction to the exhibition catalog.
