PANORAMA | Monopoli
a city-wide exhibition curated by Vincenzo de Bellis
1 – 4 September 2022
ITALICS has chosen Monopoli (Bari) for the second edition of the city-wide exhibition Panorama curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, Curator and Associate Director of Programs, Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Panorama is the special event ITALICS periodically holds in some of the most extraordinary places in the Italian landscape. After last year’s first edition on the wonderful island of Procida, from Thursday 1 to Sunday 4 September 2022, ITALICS is organizing a new itinerary in one of the most fascinating places on the Adriatic coast: Monopoli.
The ancient seaside village of Monopoli, in the heart of the Apulian coast along the “Costa dei Trulli”, retains a medieval historic center. A maze of pedestrian streets, typical chiassi – quaint narrow passageways – and ancient piazzas, a gem of popular housing interspersed with sumptuous religious buildings and splendid aristocratic homes. And right in these streets, the second edition of the city-wide Panorama Monopoli exhibition will be held in early September of 2022.
This year’s Italics d’Oro award celebrates Lisetta Carmi, and her fundamental artistic experience and work. Since 1979, the artist and photographer Lisetta Carmi (Genoa, 1924) has lived in Cisternino, Puglia, where she founded a meditation community. Lisetta Carmi is a great Italian artist who has distinguished herself with work that is well ahead of the times, and for this reason, still extremely topical today.
