Mémoire du passé / Mémoire du futur

Paintings and drawings by Charles Szymkowicz

27 January 2018 – 3 June 2018
Palazzo Pubblico, Magazzini del Sale | Santa Maria della Scala | Rooms of Memory

The route of the Mémoire du Passé / Mémoire du Fut exhibition, comprising 134 works, is divided between Magazzini del Sale of Palazzo Pubblico (Piazza del Campo 1), Santa Maria della Scala (Piazza del Duomo 2) and the Stanze della Memoria (via Malavolti 9).

Consists of 11 sections that trace the social and personal denunciation of Charles Szymkowicz through his painting.

Paintings and drawings, realized in the last decades, in the characteristic pictorial pictorial language strongly material-iconic and very personal neo-expressionist by the Belgian artist. Szymkowicz, recognized among the greatest neo-expressionist painters operating in Europe between the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the 21st, works on a dimension of memory that extends from the family to the collective through the evocation of both historical and contemporary portraits ethically representative, both of situations of social tragedy that have gone through the last century, and which are a warning of the past but also a warning for the future.

The exhibition – which falls within the program of the Siena Open City Festival will remain open until 3 June 2018 and will be free admission.

Entrance fee: Free entry