The exhibition “Tintoretto – Pombo, Maternity and Passion” - open from 11 May to 20 August, is curated by Sandro Orlandi Stagl with Frederick Ilchman and text by Gabriella Belli. The preface of the book is by the Patriarch of Venice Francesco Moraglia and the introduction by the Guardian Grando, Franco Posocco. The production is by ARTantide.com Gallery in collaboration with the Scuola Grande di San Rocco and the Movimento Arte Etica.
A tribute to femininity, to the woman as mother, creature and creator, who finds her archetype in the figure of the Madonna.
“I chose Mary as the protagonist, as a tribute to femininity and as the main person damaged by the suffering generated during the Passion, unfortunately so often relegated to the background – declares Pombo -. And I could not find all these meanings except in Tintoretto's paintings. It also seems to me an excellent historical moment to affirm the importance of the female figure and the mother”.
Pombo is probably the contemporary artist, together with the great informal Venetian painter Emilio Vedova, who has dealt most profoundly with Tintoretto. His "variations" take their meaning precisely from the duality of the past and present and from the status quo and its destruction. At the same time, his works also experience the regeneration of painting through the negation of the past, the story that continues in the present, the redemption of the contemporary imagination on tradition.
Jorge R. Pombo was born in Barcelona (Spain) in 1973.
At the age of 24, in 1998, he moved to Paris instinctively attracted by the art and history of the city. In 1999 he returned to Barcelona again and began a series of stays in destinations with cultural contrasts starting from the Arctic, especially Greenland and Siberia, attracted by the frozen landscape and extreme climatic conditions. In the future he will do the same for other places, like Tibet or India.
Always moved by a curiosity about natural anthropology, in 2010 he moved to New York, seduced by its chaotic energy, and where he lived for almost five years, deepening the study of abstract expressionist painters and, above all, the affirmation of Black Mountain College. In 2015 he changed his residence choosing Reggio Emilia, where he currently works.
He exhibits regularly in galleries in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the United States and China. He has also exhibited his work in institutions such as the Wallraf-Richartz Museum (Cologne), the Grande Museo del Duomo (Milan), the National Archaeological Museum (Venice), Palazzo da Mosto (Reggio Emilia) and Fundaciò Can Framis (Barcelona).
