The exhibition, which opens to the public on 26 October, will be presented to the press on Thursday 24 October with speeches by Cristina Acidini, Superintendent of Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage for the Polo Museale of the City of Florence, Antonio Paolucci, director of the Vatican Museums, Paolo Regini , President of the Bank of Change, all in the presence of Maestro Possenti.
Anthony Possenti was born in Lucca in 1933, the city where he still resides today. After classical studies, he approaches drawing which takes shape, becoming an expressive sign of a representation of the "human comedy". His works then become painting, with the same form of illustration with a strongly descriptive meaning of a magical world.
His formative opportunities were ideal and elective, fruit of the intellectual curiosity and of the literary and artistic culture that he had breathed in the family since he was a child, ranging from Greco-Roman classicism to the modern and contemporary era and with a particular predilection for the experiences of most lively and addictive cut fantastic. He has traveled extensively and met various personalities and cultures, but he always returns to Lucca where he lives and has his studio in the heart of the city, a magical place that collects, like an immense suitcase, the evidence of his "excursions" around the world. During his career he has exhibited in the main Italian and foreign galleries (Gianferrari, Il Milione, Appiani Arte 32 in Milan, Marescalchi and Forni in Bologna, Davico and Biasutti in Turin, il Traghetto in Venice, Poggiali and Forconi in Florence, L' immagine in Arezzo, Aminta in Siena, Philippe Guimiot in Brussels, Rutzmoser in Monaco, East West Gallery in London, Art Diagonal in Barcelona, etc.), has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including the Bologna Art Fair, do Cologne, of Milan, Art Basel of Basel, FIAC of Paris, Art Fair of Los Angeles, Art Miami of Miami Beach, New York International Art Fair, Tuyap of Istanbul, Foire d'art of Gent, Arco of Madrid, Stockholm, St'Art in Strasbourg, BART in Barcelona.
He has exhibited with personal exhibitions in prestigious public environments: Muse degli Uffizi, Sala d'Armi of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Royal Palace of Caserta, Tour Fromage of Aosta, Palazzo Ducale of Massa, Castel dell'Ovo of Naples.
He has received numerous awards and recognitions and his works are present in important Italian and foreign private and public collections.
Critics, art historians, writers and intellectuals have written about him, among others: Luca Beatrice, Fortunato Bellonzi, Aldo Busi, Dino Buzzati, Oscar Calabrese, Luciano Caprile, Raffaele Carrieri, Piero Chiara, Enrico Crispolti, Massimo Duranti, Giovanni Faccenda, Alfondo Gatto, Paolo Levi, Nicola Micieli, Marilena Pasquali, Roberto Sanesi, Pier Carlo Santini, Giorgio Saviane, Vittorio Sgarbi, Giorgio Soavi, Franco Solmi, Marcello Venturoli.
He is a member of the Academy of Letters, Sciences and Arts of Lucca and of the Academy of the Art of Drawing in Florence.
