It will be a new cultural opportunity for the city of Quartu, and the continuation of an artistic journey begun in recent years, the exhibition "Dürer, burins and engravings" inaugurated today in the former Capuchin convent and open until 31 October. To close the cycle "The great engravers of art history", which saw Rembrandt in 2018, Manet in 2019 and Goya in 2020, comes the exhibition dedicated to Albrecht Dürer, considered the greatest exponent of German Renaissance painting .

Burin works, engravings and woodcuts dominate in his artistic offer, mainly dedicated to devotion to God and experienced by the artist as a means to deepen faith. «With the cycle dedicated to international art, and specifically to engraving, we wanted to underline that art is a universal language », comments Graziano Milia, mayor of Quartu . «Bringing great art to Quartu is a challenge and a way to dialogue with citizens, making high-level events available to them that would otherwise be enjoyed in other contexts». Sponsored and subsidized by the municipal administration of Quartu, by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and by the Presidency of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, the prestigious exhibition aims to underline a government policy attentive to culture, art and beauty.

The former Capuchin convent, the beating heart of Quartese culture and a reference point not only for art, but for culture in Sardinia will, on the occasion of the exhibition, be the fulcrum for the creation of educational workshops open to schools and families . Visitors will be able to enjoy guided tours to discover the world of engraving and the artistic and historical path that characterized the artist.

At the same time as the exhibition , a collateral exhibition of 5 artists selected from the last two editions of the Marchionni national prize will be set up: Fabio Riaudo, Marco Poma, Laura Fonsa, Simone Geraci and Giovanni Dettori. «When I think of an exhibition, I draw attention to who, among the contemporaries, can implement the topics dealt with by the presence of a great master of art history», declares the artistic curator, Walter Marchionni. «Turn to engrave. Predestined. Here, the artists involved are really destined to affect, emphatically, also on the national artistic panorama. Non-followers, ambassadors of beauty and efficient interpreters of Dürer's legacy». A common thread links these artists with the authors of the past in an atelier where the contemporary draws on the ancient to sublimate art in all its aspects.

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