FIDIA
Press release

LOOKS ON ROME

personal exhibition by Sergio Ceccotti

Catalog text by Gabriele Simongini

The Sguardi su Roma exhibition presents to the public a selection of works by Sergio Ceccotti dedicated to the "eternal city", created over the last twenty years. Engaging and enigmatic, the artist's canvases hide a small mystery to be solved that lies behind the presence of a hand or people depicted from behind or simple objects placed on the table, as if something were to happen at any moment. Gabriele Simongini writes: “A Rome perpetually wrapped in the adventures of a light that is sweet and plastic at the same time, crossed by daily enigmas and thrillers that imbue every scene with a sense of anticipation, as if something indefinable is always on the verge of happening. For his painting we could speak of a metaphysical everyday life capable of creating an osmosis between the legacy of the Pictor Classicus and Hopper's minimal pictorial existentialism, on the one hand, and on the other the noir cinema of the 1950s or genres considered minor, such as the photo novel, the comic strips (Diabolik) and the drawings of the illustrator of the “Settimana Enigmistica”, Maria Ghezzi. And then you cannot understand this cultured, elegant and secluded painter, in love with the mysteries that hide in the visible, if you do not grasp his refined irony which distances itself from any pompous rhetoric and the risk of complacency". (from the catalog text by Gabriele Simongini)


INAUGURATION | Thursday 9 May 2024 at 6.30 pm
DURATION | from 9 May to 31 May 2024
HOURS | from Monday to Friday 10am-1pm / 4pm-7.30pm Saturday 10am-1pm LOCATION | Galleria Fidia, Via Angelo Brunetti, 49 – Rome ORGANIZATION | Giulia Linari
CONTACTS | 063612051 - 3381359307 - info@artefidia. Com

Biography: Sergio Ceccotti, born in Rome in 1935,carries out his activity between Rome and Paris. Pupil of Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg in 1956 and 1957 and of the drawing courses of the French Academy in Rome from 1956 to 1961.In Paris, where from 1977 to 2024,he held thirteen solo exhibitions, he worked for 23 years with the Alain Blondel gallery. The pictorial works of Sergio Ceccotti are preserved in various public collections, including the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, the Vatican Museums - Collection of Modern Religious Art, the Staatliches Lindenau Museum of Altenburg, the municipal galleries of Modern Art of Bologna and Arezzo, the Renato Guttuso Museum of Contemporary Art in Bagheria.