ANGEL ORENSANZ DISPLAYS IN PALERMO THE JOYOUS INSTABILITY OF ART

Palermo (Sicily) February 10, 2008. The Government of Sicily and the City of Palermo, through Palazzo Inteligente Foundation (Palermo) and Orestiade Foundation (Gibellina) have readied for Angel Orensanz one of Sicily’s most emblematic monuments, the Castle of La Cuba for his exhibition “The Joyous Instability of Art”.  The show is being curated  by contemporary most prestigious art critic and curator,  Achille Bonito Oliva, a professor at La Sapienza University in Rome.

The show opened this Saturday, February 9, at 5:30 in the evening with the participation of the Secretary for Culture, Environment and Public Education of Sicily, professor Achille Bonito Oliva and sculptor Angel Orensanz. The show will be open until next March. The show presents a collection of forty drawings of Orensanz as well as several of his installations of sculpture in fabrics in the exterior and interior of the Castle, in a nod  to the cultural role that the castle played during the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Spanish/Aragonese period.

After the exhibition at the Castle la Cuba, the work of Orensanz  will travel to Fondazione Orestiade in Gibellina, near Palermo, a center  of creativity and research open to European, Arabic and Jewish  creativity, historical and contemporary.

 The exhibition comes accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue by professor Achille Bonito Oliva , in Italian and English. Admission to the exhibition is free. Week days: 9 to 6:30; holidays 9 to 1 pm. For further information or for copies of the catalogue, please call 39-091 590299 or at 212.529-7194.