Fuori porta
Oliviero Fiorenzi, Beatrice Gelmetti, Nicola Ghirardelli, Matteo Nuti, Francesco Pacelli, Phillippa Peckham, Fabrizio Prevedello, Caterina Sbrana
Curated by Ilaria Mariotti
with Caterina Fondelli and Alessandra Ioalè
Villa Pacchiani Exhibition Center
Piazza Pier Paolo Pasolini Santa Croce Sull’Arno
“Fuori porta” is an Italian term for anything that lies outside the city gates and evokes trips to the countryside or otherwise outside the built-up area, and what the term expresses overlaps with the concept of the suburbs as a marginal zone of an area and, more specifically, with respect to an urban agglomeration.
Santa Croce sull’Arno is a small manufacturing center characterized by strong industrialization that has, over time, designed urban planning, updated the social structure, and revised the relationship between the built-up area and its green and naturalistic surroundings, hills and forests.
Fuori porta is an exhibition involving eight artists: Oliviero Fiorenzi, Beatrice Gelmetti, Nicola Ghirardelli, Matteo Nuti, Francesco Pacelli, Phillippa Peckham, Fabrizio Prevedello, Caterina Sbrana. Their research declines in different ways the concepts of landscape and of the way, for each different, of observing and exploring it. A landscape sometimes geographically close to that to which Santa Croce sull’Arno refers, sometimes far away. Researches that start, from a naturalistic datum to transport it to an inner and existential dimension.