Ocean, Earth and Space

Davide Ragazzi solo exhibit in Carrara, Italy

© Davide Ragazzi, Genoa (Italy) Ocean Earth and Space - 2021 acrylic on canvas, cm 40 x 40

davide ragazzi, solo Exhibit

Friday 8th October 2021, at Estensioni Oltre.Lo Spazio, in Carrara (Italy), “Ocean, Earth and Space”, a solo exhibit by Davide Ragazzi, was open to the public. The exhibition was produced by Davide Ragazzi Art Studio Gallery, organized by Davide Ragazzi Art Studio Gallery and Estensioni Oltre.LoSpazio, an Artist-run space operated by Carrara artists. Concept, Curatorship and Exhibit Design were made by Enza Di Vinci.

The exhibition presented to the public a body of works by Davide Ragazzi, contemporary artist, who, since 1993, has been painting the Moon, the Earth, the rocky planets and the human flight. Cosmo Art by Davide Ragazzi is realized in paintings and installations that connected art to science and vice versa.

ocean, earth and space

On display, a series of works created by the artist in 2020 and 2021, whose title gives the exhibition its name: 7 paintings on canvas and an installation on paper with the same subject; views of portions of the the Planet Earth from Space.

In the paintings, the pictorial gestures represents the relationship between the Oceans and the Earth and dialogue with the darkness of Space, rendered by the artist with a particular mineral black color: tiny bright points revive the darkness to symbolize the vital element, which it always remains, even in the face of a non-positive or uncertain future.

In the installation, a Great Earth of 240 x 240 cm, painted on 9 paper modules, the artist worked on the large dimension, the one he prefered since the beginning of his art research.

Davide Ragazzi, Ocean, Earth and Space, solo exhibition

Concept, Curatorship, Critic Text and Exhibit Design: Enza Di Vinci

Graphic Design: Davide Ragazzi

Exhibit Photography: Mihail Ivanov

Production: Davide Ragazzi Art Studio

Organizzation: Davide Ragazzi Art Studio, Estensioni Oltre.LoSpazio

Supporters: APS Oltre, Carrara Studi Aperti

Vernissage: Friday 8th October 2021, 6.30 pm

Opening period: 08 - 23 October 2021

Exhibit Address: Estensioni Oltre.LoSpazio, Via Ulivi 6, Carrara, Italy

©Enza Di Vinci

©Davide Ragazzi Art Studio

Davide Ragazzi Art Studio is an international Atelier and Gallery in Genoa, Italy, which sells Davide Ragazzi’s works, promotes the artist and organizes his international exhibitions. Davide Ragazzi Art Studio promotes the creative industry, supports contemporary artists and cultural operators, conducts researches and sets up contemporary art exhibitions.

Galileo's Moon

Tribute to Galileo’s Moon Phases

The artist Davide Ragazzi developing the Moon as pictorial subject for many years. Inside of his art atlas of cosmos he presenting paintings with satellite photographs as subjects. In 2019 and 2020, he made a series of art tributes to Galileo Galilei, the father of observational astronomy.

Galileo’s moon drawings outside the sidereus nuncius

Galileo Galilei used the chiaroscuro technique of Florentine Disegno to make 7 watercolors reproducing the Earthshine of the Moon phenomenon (called also secondary or ashen light) which he first observed through a telescope, from November 30th 1609 through January 19th 1610. The chiaroscuro technique in wash drawing was preferred by Galileo because it was the most suitable, at the time, to represent the phenomenon of the light of the Earth reflected from the Moon: the Earthshine.

The 7 watercolors, conventionally named F1-F7 (in order of increasing lunar age), were reproduced by Galileo on two separate sheets (6 in the first, 1 in the second) and used as a model for the etchings intended to illustrate the first edition of the Sidereus Nuncius, but they were not included among the illustrations published in the volume. At first, Galileo probably thought of including them in the first printed copy but then decide to exclude them, because of the strong scientific debate that his revolutionary theory on Earthshine, still undisclosed, would have produced in society if published. The two sheets with 7 watercolors were placed next to the manuscript of Sidereus Nuncius and preserved, but they were not published as illustrations in the first printed edition of the volume, by the will of Galileo. Currently, the sheets with the watercolors and the manuscript of Sidereus Nuncius are preserved at the Biblioteca Nazionale of Florence (BNCF, Gal. 48, f.28).

tribute to galileo’s moon by davide ragazzi

The artist Davide Ragazzi has been developing the Moon as pictorial subject for many years. Starting from realistic and timely observations of the Moon, he processes scientific data, technological aspects and art research. Davide Ragazzi’s tribute is to Galileo art lover and scientist who, after scientific observations made with his telescope, reproduced pictorial representation of the Moon to study and demonstrate a scientific phenomenon, introducing the world to the modern science. Painting and technology, art and science are connections that Davide Ragazzi has chosen to highlight in different expressive methologies, including tributes to illustrious scientists of the past.

[Enza Di Vinci]

you can see Galileo’s moon watercolors online visiting the website of the biblioteca nazionale in florence