One day in the art and life of Concetto Pozzati On 1 December Bologna recalls "the corsair of painting"
There are artists (but also for people) so important that, sometimes, even for a moment, it's nice to forget. Just the time for a long breath. Enough to meet them again like it was the first time. Let them, suddenly, a small detail bring them back to memory, investing you with a whirlwind of emotions that make you feel like when you fell in love with them for the first time. This is the gift that will receive those who, Saturday, December 1, 2018, will be around Bologna, to retrace the works and the life of Concetto Pozzati. Not a random date, but the day when his birth occurs, which, a little more than a year after his death, offers the opportunity to breathe his essence, admiring his work and listening to pieces of life of the artist who has given birth to pop art in Italy thanks to iconic paintings such as Pera. To mark the rhythm of this "Pozzati day" are three significant places for him: the MAMbo (Museum of Modern Art of Bologna), the Academy of Fine Arts, and the Galleria de' Foscherari.
Among all these special occasions to immerse yourself in the world of what has been called "the corsair of painting", the first will be at 12:00 at the Library of MAMbo. Here the Fondo Concetto Pozzati will be inaugurated, a new room dedicated entirely to the collection of about 4000 volumes between art catalogs and essays, selected and collected by the artist during his life, donated to MAMbo by the sons of the man, Maura and Jacopo Pozzati, and made so accessible to the public. These are the stages of a unique day, the opportunity to discover a person and giant personality of international art who described his work with these words:
"I come from the informal, then I tried to change stains and corrosion, walls and layers in organic ghosts. Figurality, said and not (new) figuration. Making what the ghost and phantom the thing. Everything was ghost everything was thing-figure but everything was presented never represented"
