The exhibition ‘Forme e Colori: Silvia Pierucci Sapio nella collezione Stefano Ubiglia’ (Forms and Colours: Silvia Pierucci Sapio in the Stefano Ubiglia Collection), curated by Massimiliano Sbrana and sponsored by the Municipality of Pisa, FIDAPA (Pisa section) and the Library Association of the Lungomonte, will be inaugurated on Saturday 15 March 2025 at 5.30 p.m. in the Fibonacci Room of the GAMeC CentroArteModerna in Pisa (on the Lungarno Mediceo at number 26).
The exhibition will be open until Wednesday 26 March 2025.
This exhibition started from Dr Ubiglia's passion for art. Ubiglia, who introduced the reasons that led him to organise the event as follows: ‘I have always been interested in the history of art, in particular its figurative aspects, and although my personal work commitment has been directed in different directions, I remain very attached to the vision of the world conveyed by graphics and paintings, which has led me, given my friendship with the painter Silvia Pierucci Sapio, to acquire a fund of works that gives priority to the trends of the last 20 years, trying to promote awareness of her works, both graphic and pictorial.
Silvia Pierucci Sapio was born in Pisa in 1963, moved to Florence in 1980 where she worked in the real estate sector. She lived in the city of the Lily for twenty years, in the historic centre. She participated in the foundation of the Study Centre in Via Sant'Egidio, where numerous artists found hospitality to exhibit their works.
He frequented Maestro Silvio Loffredo's studio, which permeated his past and present painting experience. At the same time as her love for painting, she cultivated a passion for writing. In 1994, she wrote her first book ‘The Astrological Secret in the Divine Comedy - Jupiter Editions’.
After the Florentine period, she returned to live in Pisa, undertook studies on Semitic culture and wrote in 2014 ‘Le Lettere arabe spiegate a mio figlio’ and ‘Le Lettere ebraiche spiegate a mio figlio’ - Marchetti Editore. He spent study periods in the Near East (Beirut, Aleppo, Damascus, Tunis, Algiers, Cairo) where he deepened his study of the Arabic language.
At the same time, he began his exhibition activity with numerous group exhibitions in which the Tower of Pisa gradually became the favourite icon of his works.
As the art historian and critic Luca Nannipieri has also written, ‘The Leaning Tower of Pisa is perhaps the most reproduced monument, along with the Colosseum and the Eiffel Tower, in the world. Faced with the bulimia of reproduction, a realistic painting of the bell tower of the Pisan cathedral no longer makes sense, because every photograph - among the millions of shots taken of it every day by tourists - has more power of detail and definition than a painting. So perhaps the only way to re-propose the tower is in a dreamlike key, as Silvia Pierucci Sapio does in her paintings. Oneirism is perhaps the last form of reproduction of a monument transformed into a fetish and myth of itself’.
Free entrance. Hours: 10 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. 4 p.m. - 6.30 p.m. (weekdays); Closed Mondays. Special opening on Sunday 16 March 2025, 4-6.30 p.m.
