Maurizio Perversi

Festina Lente at the Caffè Letterario La Fenice

Festina Lente

Caffè Letterario La Fenice, Lugana di Sirmione

21st December 2012- 6th January 2013

 

The exhibition has come to an end.

Part of the works are now available on the web site, along with the respective art critics.

 

Introduction to the exhibition.

Festina Lente is the Latin translation of the encouragement motto “Hasty slowly” or, in other words, move fast towards life, to the challenges it sets, live but in a serious, mature and reflexive way.

Festina Lente has been coined by the Emperor August, that was the first Emperor of Rome. The motto deepened in the history of Italian civilizations: starting from Rome period and on a series of allegorical representations has been created, both in literature and in visual arts, as the maxim basically revealed an oxymoron.

The most successful image of the Renaissance period was the turtle and the sail, conductor thread of the exhibition. Cosimo De’ Medici, a huge personality among the conductors of the dynasty, associated Festina Lente to the turtle with the sail, using the motto as an exhortation to courage and, at the meantime, to reflection for his naval fleet.

Maurizio Perversi would like to make a wish, giving a suggestion to turn our own life in a positive way, at the beginning of 2013.

The Master painting meets both the realism and the surrealism, in this exhibition that is conducted by the figure of the turtle, that ties all the pictures.