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  • Palmo Mare – Serata d’Estate

    A SUMMER EVENING OF ART AND CONVIVIALITY

    On Wednesday, 19 August 2026, on the occasion of the traditional Summer Festival organised by Enzo and Daniela Sermattei at Palmo Mare in Ronchi, Marina di Massa, I had the pleasure of presenting a selection of twelve of my works, some of which were being exhibited to the public for the first time, including After the Night, the Work Is Not Yet Done and The Suspended Stillness of Valletta.

    For one evening, the long row of beach cabins was transformed into a small and original open-air gallery: twelve works, displayed one after another along the walkway, each individually illuminated against the blue walls and white cabin doors. As evening fell, the lights created an unusual and evocative setting, guiding visitors through the entire exhibition.

    More than a hundred people, including regular guests of Palmo Mare and outside visitors, took part in the evening, made even more enjoyable by the clear sky and live music. The aperitif offered by Enzo, with sparkling wine, pappa al pomodoro, couscous, cold cuts and small cream-filled krapfen prepared by the Palmo Mare kitchen, completed an evening of art, encounters and relaxed conviviality by the sea.

    Event Information

    Period: One-off event on August 19, 2026, 9:00 PM – 12:00 AM

    Event curator: GPaolo

    Where: Stabilimento Balneare – Palmo Mare di Ronchi – Lungomare di Levante, 98, 54100 Massa MS (Marina di Massa)

  • EcceHomoEcceMare

    The Promo-Terr Association presents the interactive group exhibition “Ecce Homo Ecce Mare” at the Galleria Europa. Live painting and book presentation. By Redazione Versilia Post July 31, 2025

    The theme concerns man as a human race and the sea as the ultimate expression of water, the source of life and growth. This exhibition features fourteen contemporary artists.

    The exhibition, curated by the Promo-Terr Association, presented the artistic vision of these artists in a dynamic way. Indeed, it was not simply a display of static works to admire, but an interactive exhibition with the public through “live painting,” book presentations, and cultural events such as: “From Bonetti to Bonetti” on August 6, 2025, at 9:30 pm; “Incontri diVersi” on August 7, at 9:30 pm; and the presentation of the book “Cruditè” by Martina Madrigali on August 10, at 9:30 pm.
    Each event featured one or more of the artists featured, allowing the public to learn more about the individual participants in the exhibition, both during the meetings and by watching them paint a new painting live. This format is offered by the Promo-Terr association at every event.
    The exhibition is accompanied by a book-catalog introducing the artists and their works, interspersed with thoughts or poems by both prominent figures and anonymous thinkers. The themes of these short writings are, of course, the sea and humanity.

    Event Information

    Date: From Friday, August 2nd to 14th, 2025, at the Galleria Europa in Lido di Camaiore (LU)

    Event Curator: Gianni Capolei

    Where: Galleria Europa – Pontile Lungomare Europa, 55041 Lido di Camaiore LU

    Alla Galleria Europa la collettiva interattiva _Ecce Homo-Ecce Mare_. Pittura dal vivo e presentazione di libri – VersiliaPostDownload

  • ArtistaDiVino

    WINE ARTIST

    The Promo-Terr Association, in collaboration with Tenuta Mariani, is launching and organizing the “Wine Artist” Painting Competition.
    The theme of the works submitted was: “Wine, the nature of Versilia (lake, coast, and countryside), and drinking in company.”

    The purpose of the competition is to:

    • promote the combination of Art and Wine, highlighting artists and their works
    • conscious drinking
    • awareness of the cultural and landscape heritage of the Versilia area
    • the close relationship between the world of wine, culture, and art.

    The selected works were included in the “Artisti diVino” catalog on the dedicated website www.artistadivino.eu, and the top three winning works of the competition will be used on the labels for Tenuta Mariani wines in 2025.

    Event Information

    Date: From Friday, May 2nd to September 5th, 2025, with a traveling location between the Savoia Restaurant in Viareggio and the Tenuta Mariani Cellars in Massaciuccoli (LU).

    Event Curator: Gianni Capolei

    Where: Cantine della Tenuta Mariani – Massaciuccoli– Via Pietra a Padule, 1881, 55054 Massaciuccoli LU

  • Off Script

    The work stems from a reflection on the myth of the puppet, reimagined within the reality of 2026.
    On stage, an entire community of marionettes appears docile, controlled from above by a puppeteer who directs their gestures, roles and destiny: a bitter image of power turning a people into a spectacle. In the foreground, however, a rebellious puppet watches without becoming entangled in the strings. Fascinated yet detached, he is driven by a desire for experience, truth and freedom.
    The little theatre and the figures on stage are suggested through quick brushstrokes, while the puppet and the puppeteer are rendered with a palette knife and denser layers of oil paint, emerging both physically and symbolically from the scene.

    TITLE:   Off Script

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    50 x 50 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    July 2026

    SERIAL N.:

    20260702

    NOTES:

    Fantasy subject created with a brush and spatula.

  • July, an Almost Deserted Beach

    Sometimes it is not the grand landscapes that strike me, but the moments that seem to pass unnoticed.

    A little girl, her small dog, the sea before them. No running, no noise. Just time suspended in a simple moment.

    I did not take that photograph with the intention of painting it. It was the image itself that came back to me days later, asking to be transformed into colour.

    On this small 20 × 20 cm canvas, I tried to convey not only a scene, but also a feeling: the freedom that belongs to childhood, when the sea seems endless and a dog on a leash is the perfect companion with whom to explore the world.

    TITLE:   July, an Almost Deserted Beach

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    20 x 20 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    July 2026

    SERIAL N.:

    20260701

    NOTES:

    The subject was painted entirely with a palette knife.

    I observed the scene while walking along the beach at Marina di Massa. The following day, I described it to an AI in order to obtain a preliminary study image, while the final work was created entirely by hand.

    AI does not make the decisions: it accelerates the study phase. The ethical principle lies in two things: not copying other people’s material in a non-transparent way, and openly stating that AI was used as a design aid, while the final artwork—and all the artistic choices—remain my own.

  • ReVersiliana – Personale ’26

    MEMORIES OF LIGHT

    In Memories of Light, GPaolo takes the viewer on a pictorial journey through real places, inner visions and unexpected tales of fantasy. The sea, harbours, cities, solitary houses and wind-swept skies become fragments of memory, held on the canvas by light and the material texture of colour.

    The urban and Mediterranean views evoke memories of lived experiences, while the portholes open onto imaginary worlds inhabited by animals caught in amusing and impossible situations. Reality and invention thus coexist within the same narrative universe, united by a curious gaze capable of recognising wonder both in everyday life and in dreams.

    GPaolo

    Event information

    Date: From July 22nd to August 9th, 2026,
    Meeting with the Artist on July 31st at 6:00 PM

    Event Curator: Gianni Capolei

    Where:  RE-Versiliana Hotel – Via Giosuè Carducci, 1 – 55044 Marina di Pietrasanta (Lucca)

    Arte e dialogo_ Gian Paolo Macario protagonista di un incontro al Bagatto del Re – LuccaInDirettaDownload

  • 61a Biennale Venezia

    REFRACTION

    Thus, Refraction becomes the silent tale of a paradox: a single fragment of imperfect glass is enough for an age-old city to appear new, for the everyday to be tinged with unreality, for a physical law to turn into visual poetry. In that encounter between light, matter and memory, the viewer is not merely looking at a landscape: they lean out over a dream that never quite comes into full focus, and it is precisely for this reason that it continues to enchant..

    The work reflects on the way light alters what we see and, more profoundly, on the unstable nature of perception. Each image depends on the point of view, the material passing through it, and the experience of the observer.

    GPaolo

    Event information

    The artist GPaolo will participate with an in-depth analysis and related critical presentation hosted within the exhibition of the National Pavilion of Grenada at the 61st Venice Art Biennale, at the Spazio Berlendis.

    The meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, at 4:00 PM, while the work will remain on display on November 4, 5, and 6, 2026.

    Event Curator: Daniele Radini Tedeschi

    Where: 61ª Biennale di Venezia Arte – Padiglione Nazionale del Grenada, presso lo Spazio Berlendis

  • Violanti Augusta – paintings

    A Corner of Peace

    In this urban glimpse, Augusta Violanti transforms a quiet corner of the city into a composition of light, balance, and memory. The geometric shapes of the buildings, the delicate tones, and the red signal create a harmonious dialogue between order and everyday life. The scene conveys calm, presence, and trust: even in a seemingly anonymous space, the artist’s gaze recognizes beauty, rhythm, and poetry.
    The No Entry project imagines a world where peace is also guaranteed by precise rules and where not everything is permitted indiscriminately: because sometimes a limit, if directed toward good, does not close a path, but protects a space of harmony.

  • Drop the Bone

    I used to run after Pepper
    around the red wall,
    me in slippers,
    him with the bone.
    Until age, little by little,
    came to claim my breath,
    and I would collapse, exhausted,
    into the armchair.

    Then, from behind the wall,
    his happy muzzle would appear,
    one eye lit with mischief,
    as if to say:

    Shall we play?

    TITLE:   Drop the Bone

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    50 x 50 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    March 2026

    SERIAL N.:

    20260302

    NOTES:

    Subject from one of my photographs — created with a palette knife.

  • The Wonder of the Visible

    THE WONDER OF THE VISIBILE

    There are artists who describe the world, and artists who teach us to look at it anew. In this exhibition, Fontanini and GPaolo create a journey in which reality is not merely represented, but illuminated by an additional light: femininity becomes overwhelming, the city turns into a vertical tension, architecture becomes prayer, the sea opens itself to storytelling, and human bonds take on the concrete form of protection and memory.

    The works gathered here arise from different experiences — observation, travel, memory, poetic invention — yet they all converge in the same disposition of gaze: one that recognizes in the visible a place still capable of wonder. For this reason, the exhibition does not follow a single iconographic theme. Instead, it brings together skylines and cathedrals, flowering fields and marine depths, intimate scenes and unexpected apparitions, allowing the visitor to discover, step by step, a common thread.

    Here, that thread is wonder. Not as an escape, but as a profound form of attention. In the paintings of Fontanini and GPaolo, the world remains recognizable and yet is transformed: an imperfect pane of glass alters an ancient city, a tourist “from another world” moves silently through New York, the Mediterranean comes alive with surprising presences, a grandfather protects a child from the wind, and a simple table of bread, wine, and cheese becomes an image of gratitude.

    In this journey, painting does not confine reality within a definition; it reopens it. And it reminds us that truly seeing always means, in some measure, allowing ourselves to be involved.

    GPaolo

    Event Information

    Period: From June 4 to June 11, 2026,
    with the opening on Friday, June 5 at 6:00 PM

    Event Curator: Andrea Polo

    Where: Galleria degli Artisti – Via Nirone 1, 20123 Milano

    The Galleria degli Artisti was founded in 1979 by Maria Salvi, a journalist and art critic with a keen eye for the cultural landscape of her time. Today, the gallery is meticulously managed by Emma Salvi, who continues its work, enriching it with a vibrant program of events and cultural initiatives.

    Catalogo Fontanini Macario 05_2026BDownload
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