The exhibition Qui e Ora (Here and Now) comes to life in the spaces of the deconsecrated church of Sant’Agnese in Padua, drawing inspiration from the sacredness of the place to engage in dialogue with the present and contemporary times.
It features works from the AGIVERONA Collection and a selection of works from the Alberto Peruzzo Foundation Collection. A group of seven large works fill the nave: installations, videos, photographs, and paintings that allude to the aura of the space, a 12th-century building that was one of the city’s most important places of worship until the 1940s. In the former sacristy, a selection of works from the Alberto Peruzzo Foundation Collection on the theme of sacredness: among the artists featured are Hermann Nitsch, Marc Chagall, Paul Jenkins, Jannis Kounellis, Robert Indiana, and Alberto Garutti.
The two collections ideally mirror each other around the core themes of spirituality, perception of time, and the way in which the contemporary inhabits the space of memory, a link between the 20th century and the third millennium, showing how the concept of “sacred” continues to transform itself in current artistic sensibility: a sacredness no longer confined to the religious sphere, but understood as attention to the essential, to transition, to the embodied experience of the present.
The exhibition will be open to the public on Thursday, December 4, from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m
Credit and acknowledgements
Anna and Giorgio Fasol
Galleria Alberta Pane
Sponsorship
With the support of
Fineco private banking
Luxardo