Foundation Pio Alferano Award, Castelabate, August 2014
Forty painters invited by Vittorio Sgarbi, Enzo Mazzarella and Santino Carta to evoke the King of Naples Joachim Murat. From 2 to 31 August 2014; Belvedere San Costabile, Castello dell' Abate, Castelabate ( Salerne)
100x 70 cm; oil on canva; 2014; artist's collection
Separate the light from the darkness
Santuary Our Lady of the Laus. After the solemn mass, in order to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Apparitions recognition, His Grace Monsignor Jean-michel di Falco-Leandri, Bishop of Gap and Embrun, will bless the monumental painting of Philippe Casanova, present on occasion.
Philippe Casanova, a french artist passionated by baroque and inspired by the Eternal City. I met again, after many years, Our Lady of Laus with emotion. It is a Havre de Grace, peace and quiet for the soul, in a symbiosis with nature, creation. In the city I have elected, the Holly city of Rome, I have, year after year, discovered the baroque. The architects and artists who made it so beautifull used to say: "...
Biennale of Venice- Italian Pavilion.
Turin, Palace of exhibitions, Salla Nervi, untill 29 th of Febbruary 2012. Curated by Vittorio Sgarbi.
Philippe Casanova pays a tribute to italian unity exhibiting one of his baroque interiors. His painting represent the high Altar of Santa Maria in Traspontina, Rome, during a liturgical function. The Baroque universe is a launching slope, the baroque form is an impulse; the architecture is illuminated by a transfiguring beam of light, explosing and dissolving the outlines and materials, highlighting a journey:the...
BAROQUE NOT DEAD
Horror Vacui
" One day,while I was visiting the exhibition " Roma Barocca" in the castel Sant' Angelo, I was stroked by a formula complementing an engraving: " Lampi, Voci, Tuoni", "Lightnings, Voices, Thunders ". It might have been the title of some etruscology's treatise, otherwise a futurist proclamation ( suitable with the " Funerals of the anarchist Galli, I would say! ); instead of that I saw a brilliant synthesis of...
Painting in Rome
Antoine Tarantino Gallery, 18 rue Saint Georges, Paris, France.
Going to the beauty with a baroque atittude, prefering the research of an unified language, of a synthesis, to the study of details, the convulsive outburst of life in expension to the fullness of the form and " the increase in rythms" towards" this heroism of the pure-show which is the Don Juan ' s courage" ( yves Bonnefoy).