A series of works are realized on the occasion of Matisse exposition at Palazzo dei Diamanti: a dialogue between Maurizio Camerani’s 1980s-90s videos and Matisse’s paintings. These are polished drawings on paper made by pencil, through which the notable video artist recreates evocative blurring effects, turning the subjects of portraits into rarefied shadows. The intimate and domestic aspect of their works connects the two artists in the same daily life poetry, and creates a dialogue through time where the drawn shadows become solidified energies that want to define their own presence and passage.

Mustafa Sabbagh, Jordanian artist with a long and prestigious journey in the fashion business as a photographer, exhibits at the MLB home gallery in conjunction with the Matisse exposition at Palazzo dei Diamanti. While Matisse creates sinuous feminine figures by enhancing colours and sensuality, Mustafa dresses men and women with pitch-black masks, heavy and plumbeous as pneumatics. In this way, in Sabbagh’s works, a bustier or a bra, which should in fact emphasize the femininity of the body, hides faces, thus becoming “contemporary burka”.

In conjunction with Zurbarán’s exposition at Palazzo dei Diamanti, Marcello Carrà (Ferrara, 1976) realized an evocative homage to the Spanish painter. The artist, skilled in making chiselled drawings by BIC pen, reinterprets Zurbarán’s Agnus Dei remoulding his shape in a series of metamorphosis, through which he intends to meditate on the shape and the mystic meaning connected to this creature.

An unreleased series of works entirely realized by BIC pen shows the lamb’s transformation in a sequence of unexpected metamorphosis, based on the analogy between shapes and silhouettes as well as on the symbolism of the objects itself. All happens in the context of a spiritual crisis from which man is hardly rising again.

“I would not hear useless sounds, I would like to choose... and the same goes for voices, words.” says Monica Vitti in the movie La notte by Michelangelo Antonioni. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous director, Alessandro Filippini, the Roman artist who is living in Bruxelles for years, after an accurate study has chosen some words for translating Michelangelo Antonioni’s cinematographic atmospheres in sculpture. Sculptures made by words, airy and lightweight even if carved in steel: any of that is a quintessence of poetry, inebriating and ravishing. Two urban installations nearby Castello Estense enrich the exhibition.