Spazio d’arte “Alberto Moretti” – Schema Polis
The protagonist: contemporary art
New spazio d’arte (art space) that Carmignano dedicated to Alberto Moretti, was created with the intent of witnessing and improving the experience of the teacher – one of the most innovative and experimental scenes in contemporary art in Tuscany after the war.
Inaugurated in May 2008, with the exhibition “Autonomous Hybridizations 1959-1963”, the new venue, recovered and enhanced by the administration, is aimed at both hosting retrospectives of the artistic heritage between the two world wars and the post-war period, as to absorb and reflect the personality and poetry in the emerging contemporary art scene.
The need to reserve a space on our territory for contemporary art
comes first of all from the need to pay tribute to the master who
was born in 1922 in Carmignano, and ideally to continue the exhibition activity of the Schema Gallery, directed by Moretti himself along with Raul
Dominguez. It fulfilled a uniting and educational role in Florence between 1972 and 1994, contributing to the vitality and prestige of cultural debate and discussion of the city.
However, before the exhibition centre opened its doors, in continuing
the historical experience of Schema Gallery, in 2003, the project “Cantiere d’arte Alberto Moretti” (“Alberto Moretti’s Art Workshop”) was created and sponsored by the Region of Tuscany with the collaboration of the municipality of Carmignano, Prato Province and the Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci with the aim of highlighting the work of the master and experiences emerging from the contemporary art circuit. In this regard in 2003 “Moto a Luogo” was made – an exhibition set up in La Rocca di Carmignano (The Stronghold of Carmignano), where seven artists were invited to create site-specific works, specially designed to harmonise with the surrounding natural structures.
In 2004, however, the “Cantiere d’Arte”, after a recognition of the documentary assets of the artist’s archive, proposed the exhibition of Alberto Moretti: the study and collection at home atelier in Carmignano, where some pieces of the artist’s collection and some of his own works were exposed. The activity continued with exhibitions: “Alberto Moretti in Carmignano: The Recent Art Creation” (Centro Pecci, 2005); “Alberto Moretti in Carmignano: Between Geometrical and Informal Abstraction” (Archive of Moretti and Rectory of S.Michele, Carmignano, 2006).
Adding to the patrimony were acquired four works by important international artists (Paolo Fabiani, Paolo Parisi, Bernhard Rudiger and Liliana Moro), located in the spaces of the Rocca di Carmignano and six works (oil on paper and colour photo printing) from artist Alberto Moretti designated for the Centre.
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