Milan, the press interprets art

The exhibition, held on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the birth of the Arte3 printing house in Fizzonasco (MI), founded by Serighelli himself, offers a journey through the creative universe of six Italian artists Ugo Nespolo, Emilio Isgrò, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mimmo Paladino, Nicola De Maria, who each created a work for the occasion contained in a limited edition celebratory folder.
“I just say thank you – says Alberto Serighelli – to all the artists who have crossed my life, who have given me confidence, sometimes courage, who have offered me the opportunity to work alongside them with respect and attention. I received an idea from each one, I learned things I didn't know, but above all each work triggered in me that spring that pushed me to improve myself, renewing the passion for my work”.
Ugo Nespolo has created a serigraphy in the style of his characteristic "museums", within which he has inserted quotations from works by Chia, Paladino, Pistoletto, Arnaldo Pomodoro. The result is a harmonious and playful solution that underlines the climate of empathy in which experiences involving the author and the printer are born and materialize.
A solution has matured in Emilio Isgrò that would combine his characteristic deleted texts with a topic that could be connected to this event. He found it on the first page of an article that appeared in the magazine "Serigrafia" which he appropriately contaminated, leaving some reading windows that allow the observer curious linguistic collages.
Arnaldo Pomodoro has created an etching-aquatint that connects to one of the first material investigations of almost fifty years ago which led to the current sculptural solutions, characterized by cuneiform scripts.
In his silk-screen printing on stainless steel, Michelangelo Pistoletto has inserted the cans of color used daily by Alberto Serighelli which, in their sequence of drippings, provide an interesting chromatic contrast with the metal sheet that acts as a background and container for the whole.
In his complex work, Mimmo Paladino has relied on etching-aquatint, on the collage of heterogeneous materials such as wood, canneté and vegetable cartoons. These elements were used by him for the arrangement in relief of some iconographic structures which constitute the personal code entrusted to an austere timeless symbology.
In Nicola De Maria's screen printing, he takes the visitor into his magical world to savor the music of color that goes beyond the sense of matter.