10/03/2026
Sunday 29th March, 2026, 4:30 pm. Villa Rondinelli is pleased to invite you to Mauro Cozzi - “Il mare dopo Taranto” (The Sea After Taranto).
With this exhibition dedicated to the work of Mauro Cozzi, Villa Rondinelli celebrates one of the most significant figures in contemporary Italian art, identifying painting as an important and precise medium for a symbolic and archetypal narration of the landscape. A multifaceted artist characterized by a profound theoretical awareness, Cozzi develops a personal discourse around an aquatic, marine, coastal landscape, whose boundaries open up to the light of the Mediterranean, to the fluorescence of the sun-beaten rocks. Light, water, sea foam, but also the human influence, fragments of a civilization that expresses itself as an almost imperceptible sign. The marine luminosity that forms the poetry of Paul Valery comes to mind, as does the fragmentary and conceptual sea of Mario Luzi, and the exuberance of the warm, almost astral light that permeates Carmelo Bene's 16-mm cinema.
Although the selected works by Cozzi are recent, with this exhibition Villa Rondinelli chooses to position itself as a hypothetical observatory of the culture and visual arts of Florence in the 1970s: a decade that was creatively and theoretically rich for the cultural history of the city, as well as a fundamental segment for the formation and expression of the artist's highly personal chromatic and imaginative gesture.
– Marco Mazzi (), artistic director, Villa Rondinelli.
The event is free of charge and free for everyone to attend.
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Villa Rondinelli
Via Bandini 15, 50014 Fiesole (FI)
Sunday, 29 March, 2026
4:30 PM
Free entry