Menhir Arte Contemporanea celebrates and inaugurates its new director with Rubedo, a group show of twenty-six works focused on the colour Red, interpreted by the Masters on view as passion, alchemic ardour, and dignity.

Rubedo is the title of the show celebrating and inaugurating the new director of Menhir Arte Contemporanea. A group show with selected artworks realized by: Valerio Adami, Natale Addamiano, Massimo Angèi, Domenico Bianchi, Alberto Biasi, Alighiero Boetti, Piero Dorazio, Omar Galliani, Yayoi Kusama, Pino Pinelli, Michael Rögler, Salvo, Emilio Scanavino, Turi Simeti, Giuseppe Spagnulo, Giuliano Tomaino, Giuseppe Uncini, Gianfranco Zappettini.

Twenty-six works whose common theme is the colour Red, interpreted by each artist in different shapes and ways, depending on their own sensitivity. Red colour never leaves anyone emotionless, making people euphoric and restless; Goethe associates Red to "an impression of gravity and dignity but also of grace and mercy."

To Massimo Angèi painting is a Lovable demon, which is a breeding-ground of tremors. Turi Simeti's wave-like shapes are inspired by the colour of luxury. In Salvo's works, wintery sunsets and summer landscapes succeed one another, while Natale Addamiano's skies burn into flames at sunset.

Giuseppe Uncini's cement retains brightness with fierce obduracy; conversely, Dorazio's Red overwhelms and dissolves all other colours. Omar Galliani's images are rays of flaming energy, effigies of fire. The same "ardour in pectore" can be found in Pino Pinelli's and Gianfranco Zappettini's works, where colour is floating, similar to a truncated vein, giving birth to "warps and weaves" of "R[ed] Paintings". Alberto Biasi's Relieves are not dissimilar, with those (razor) blades that seem to cut sight.

In Domenico Bianchi's painting the colour's coils are those of the Rubedo: the last phase of an alchemic process. The igneous chromatic tonality is the background of Emilio Scanavino's swarming Nigredo. Giuseppe Spagnulo tries to bridle these red fires in his paperworks.

The art of the "pois priestess," Yayoi Kusama, is soaked with anxieties, with her Infinity Nets infinitely enlarging, bringing one's sight towards the unknown. One may wonder if Michael Rögler's attempt was that of making a consumed tabula. And finally come Alighiero Boetti's Calendars, where each year is marked in Red, that red which has always been bothering copybooks in school.

A catalogue presented by Alberto Zanchetta will accompany the show.