Rome - San Francisco, from the Colosseum to the Golden Gate Bridge December 10, 2009

An ensemble of three personal exhibits by the artists Bruno Aller, Aldo Bertolini, and Marisa Facchinetti, founders of the Cultural Association “I Diagonali” in Rome. Includes paintings, painting-sculptures made of copper, and woven artwork, previously exhibited at Arte e Pensieri Gallery in Rome.

Bruno Aller's paintings seek the morphological decomposition of words as the sub-structure in search of a language of pure painting. These rhythmic, fragmented, incisive forms have a colorful vocabulary and range from extremely subtle to plainly evident.

Aldo Bertolini makes use of copper in his paintings and painting-sculptures because of copper’s reflective qualities and alternating changes between shiny and opaque surfaces suggesting architectural elements and geometric forms.

Color takes the lead in Marisa Facchinetti's work, whether it is painting or weaving. Her images present a new form of being and motion. The colors concentrate and extend outward in a counterpoint between gestures and symbols underlying a perceptive margin that is brought to light.

Opening: Thursday, December 10 at 6:30pm
RSVP at 415-788-7142 x18 or rsvp@sfiic.org

Official Website: http://www.iicsanfrancisco.esteri.it/IIC_SanFrancisco/