Il cielo blu sopra il Gran Sasso / Campo Imperatore by Giuseppe Stampone (CRF 2017) opened today at Prometeo Gallery Ida Pisani in Milano (Via G. Ventura 6). The show will be on view through April 21st, 2023. The show, subtitled From global to local for self-recovery offers itself as an ode to the joy Stampone dedicates to the area where he lives, where he works, and where his family comes from. The new body of works– including two vinyls, three drawings, a blue BIC pen table, a map, sixteen photographs and a video– expresses, with great vitality, affection for the local dimension, rediscovered– after the pandemic– as an identity space.Â
Stampone loads his artistic narratives with a purely aesthetic vision, which fixes the images beyond their historical and cultural significance, giving ample space to the feminist dimension resulting from the collaboration with Maria Crispal, artist, performer, and his life companion. Il cielo blu sopra il Gran Sasso / Campo Imperatore represents Stampone’s attempt to restore the complexity of the densely stratified territory of Abruzzo from a point of view that is naturalistic and based on the landscape as well as historical and cultural. Campo Imperatore is not only an enchanting mountain landscape, but it is also one of the places that marked the history of Italy during the Second World War. The historical fact that made it known is wrapped in the complexity defined in the form of images. Stampone touches the sky, and with his ink he returns, layer after layer, a visual and conceptual density centered on the history that characterizes the territory. Learn more here.