The two artists belonging to different expressive worlds confront each other with the aim of telling the atmosphere and life of the city's historic port, christened Mogador in the 7th century.
The city, due to its geographical position open to the Atlantic, was originally conceived and organised as a place of meeting and exchange. Over time, many artists have found inspiration in Essaouira, and now in the case of Veronica Gaido and Vito Tongiani we find in this symbolic place the concept of life, of refuge, of travel, but also the contrast, the daily effort of the people, the colours of the day and the darkness of the night that coexist and mingle with each other.
For the writer Driss Ksikes, whose text opens the catalogue of this exhibition, Tongiani and Gaido, thanks to their personal vision of Mogador, have been able to completely restore the sensory perceptions of a place, representing with photography and painting the mutability of the colours that characterise it, the swarm of people who live there, the presence of the boats that fill it and the fullness of the recurring and sometimes invisible gestures that populate it.
Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation
7 April to 12 May 2018
Monday to Thursday from 08:30 to 19:30, and Friday from 08:30 to 15:30.
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