- THE FOOD OF LOVE
“If Music be the Food of Love, Play On”.
William Shakespeare, The Twelfth Night, or What You Will
L’Atelier opened in Rome on May 15th, 2021. It is a new space for contemporary art in the heart of the Parioli neighborhood, and it is the roman venue and project room of Beatrice Burati Anderson Art Space & Gallery, which opened in Venice in 2017. The space is undoubtedly fascinating and it was built in the first half of the XXth Century as the mansion and studio of Pilade Bertieri. It actually hosts his Archive, founded by his heirs and from Beatrice Burati Anderson, as director and curator.
Pilade Bertieri, excellent painter born in Turin in 1874, studied with Tallone and Grosso, lived and worked in New York, London, Paris, Florence and Rome. His best friends were Giacomo Balla and Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Carena and Casorati. He was invited to eight editions of the Biennale di Venezia, he was Sociétaire de la Société Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris and he was part of the selection board of the Salons. He received many prestigious awards for his work and his talent as a refined portraitist, being as well loved and admired by the American and European high societies. However, it was in the beginning and in the last part of his life that he was free to express his deepest view, creating with a unique style and sensibility a body of work that he used to define as “la Comédie Humaine”.
His Atelier reopens now to the public after almost 60 years after his passing, welcoming three contemporary artists: Andrew Huston, Giovanni Rizzoli and Tristano di Robilant. The opening exhibition “THE FOOD OF LOVE”, is curated by Bruno Corà, having its unifying subject is Music as essence of the encounters and metaphor of harmony. The three artists create here an unexpected consonance between themselves and with the space.
Giovanni Rizzoli (Venice, 1963) is an artist of deep cultural roots and wide vision, pioneer of forms and meanings, he expresses since childhood with a variety of languages, from poetry, to painting and drawing. It is especially through sculpture, though, that he gives life to iconic works, sensitive and powerful. His works have been exhibited in many personal and collective exhibitions, such as Biennale di Venezia dAPERTuttO, curated by Harald Szeemann (1999). Tristano di Robilant (London, 1964) is a sculptor-poet who creates with glass and other materials pure and seductive forms. He exhibited in important galleries and museums and published a book of poems. His works are present in major collections in Italy and abroad. Andrew Huston (Watford UK, 1968) is an American-Australian-British artist. He brings a very complex and varied background. His way of painting being essentially abstract, does not tell a story and presents itself purely, reflecting the Venice Lagoon which became his biggest inspiration in the last years.
Ẁe wish that Music, with its variations, can be nourishment for the future collaboration between artists, endless inspiration and source of hope.
Artworks
Stone Song - Tristano di Robilant
Rhapsody in black -
Palude di San Giacomo (Refractions) - Andrew Huston
Soldato Innamorato - Tristano di Robilant
Vogalonga - Andrew Huston
San Nicolò (Refractions) - Andrew Huston
ARTISTS
Andrew Huston, born in the United Kingdom, is an American/Australian /British
artist. After 20 years in New York where he had a studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, he moved to Venice, Italy in June 2017 where he lives and works. Huston completed his bachelors’ degree at Parson School of Design in Paris, France and achieved his Masters in painting at Sydney College of Art in Sydney Australia.
Giovanni Rizzoli was born in Venice in 1963; after the primary and lower secondary school and the first year of classical studies in high school in Venice, he lived his adolescence between Canada and Switzerland, attending Stanstead College in Québec, and at the École Nouvelle de Chailly in Lausanne. Between 1984 and 1985 he attended the Sotheby’s Works of Art Course in London, and from 1985 to 1987 he followed courses, also in London, at the Architectural Association and at the same time, for a brief period, at City and Guilds. In 1988 he lived in New York, where he frequented some of the leading artists of the time, including Not Vital, Saint Clair Cemin, Salvatore Scarpitta and Louise Bourgeois. While in New York he also attended a course in traditional Japanese painting. After returning to Italy, in 1991 he graduated in the History of Medieval Art at the Università Ca’ Foscari of Venice. He taught at the New York University in its Venice and New York premises.
Find out moreTristano di Robilant, born in London in 1964, grew up in Italy and England. He graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he was influenced by the lectures of the architectural historian and critic Reyner Banham (1922 –1988). Tristano’s first solo exhibition was at the Holly Solomon Gallery in New York. He later collaborated with curator and gallerist Lance Fung on a series of glass sculptures entitled Domestic Temples, now part of the Sol LeWitt Collection. Invited by Giorgio Guglielmino to Calcutta, Tristano travelled repeatedly to Bengal to work on a series of silkscreens in collaboration with Pria Lall. Tristano has exhibited extensively both in Europe and in the United States, including at Annina Nosei’s gallery and the National Exemplar gallery in New York, Galleria Bonomo and Paolo Curti in Italy.
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