Created between April and May 2015, the work represents the allegories of the five senses beyond the sixth.
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Characteristics
Six large scenographies created in original on the wall for a total surface area of over 35 square metres; stucco bas-relief technique painted with special colours. The work develops the theme of the five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell as well as the “sixth sense”.
Panoramic image gallery
Description
The genre is figurative according to the artist’s style, which places humanity at the center of his work. However, the representation of the shape of the body is subtly deformed to outline the psychological depth and describe, with it, the vital tension
It is a masterpiece of significant dimensions, whose composition and formal balance required intense psychophysical commitment from the author. The Allegories of the Senses 5+1 room of the “da Pino” restaurant has now become the cenacle of the muses which, in addition to the consumption of an excellent dinner, solicits, stimulates and involves the public in an experience of full and profound artistic breath.
Giuseppe Giordano, known as Pino, is an entrepreneur of Salerno origin who has lived and worked in Veneto for over 50 years, in particular in Treviso, where he founded his two restaurants with which he aimed to give a new vision of the taste for pizza and for the other southern dishes. The laurels he received over the years did not distract him from his passion and so Pino continued to open his restaurants/pizzerias throughout the region. In 1990 Giuseppe Giordano became friends with Rinalda Truffi, curator and popularizer of the work of the artist Mario Eremita.
Rinalda Truffi art communicator
From the relationship of mutual esteem and admiration and from the profound vocation of patronage that complements Pino’s culinary one, the idea of embellishing the premises with the works of the great artist Mario Eremita was conceived. The art virtuoso then met the cooking virtuoso and the understanding was long-lasting and solid.
In 1990 Mario Eremita placed his sculptures and paintings in the premises of Treviso, in Piazza dei Signori and in Viale della Repubblica. So in 2015 he took care of the entire hall of the venue in Piazza Candiani in Mestre, in 2017 he artistically embellished the venue in Via dei Ponti Romani in Padua, in 2020 he expanded the 1990 intervention in Viale della Repubblica in Treviso.
Overall, it is an artistic embellishment intervention of cyclopean dimensions which has given a noteworthy cultural impact to the already high quality of Giuseppe Giordano’s work. The entrepreneur has demonstrated a visionary ability that goes far beyond common sensitivity and in particular revolutionizes the stereotyped vision of the restaurant/pizzeria; he brought the small provincial cities of the Veneto closer to the large international metropolises where everything is possible.
A magnificent scenographic installation dedicated to Galileo Galilei
In the heart of Padova, in Ponti Romani’s street Giuseppe Giordano has established a new restaurant “Da Pino”, inaugurated in the spring of 2017. Inside the artist Mario Eremita has carried out a very extensive artistic embellishment work with creations in bas-relief and painting (murals), he then personalized the lighting system with specific creations dedicated to nature.
The paintings by Mario and Michelangelo Eremita dedicated to the masks of the Comedia de l’Arte and beyond.
Works created by Mario and Michelangelo Eremita in 2003 for Beni Stabili spa. A collection of panel paintings on the theme of the masks of the Comedia de l’Arte and beyond. The thirteen pieces were placed inside the “Le Maschere” restaurant of the San Clemente Island Resort in Venice.
Each work measures 50 x 70 cm and is a painting on wood.
The refinement of the lines and the shades of color stand out, making these classic themes still original and stimulating. In particular we focus on Flora, Pegasus, Poseidon, Ra and Venice. The former come from mythology and mysticism, the latter is a tribute to the city of Venice; everyone was transformed into masks, as if they were characters invited to a carnival party who wanted to wear the strangest disguises.
historical headquarters of the art studio in Paderno di Ponzano Veneto (Treviso)
The artist Mario Eremita acquired his own art studio in 1991 in the town of Paderno di Ponzano Veneto in the province of Treviso. The property, consisting of two sections, a medieval watchtower, whose foundations date back approximately to the 13th century and an annex dating back to the 16th century, is in a state of serious deterioration.
original structure
After taking care of the renovation project, supported by his sons Nicola and Michelangelo, he decided to enrich it with multiple art inserts.
The entrance, consisting of a large arch with a wrought iron gate, introduces an “opus incertum” mosaic, made with different types of granite, inspired by the theme of the sea, which represents three dolphins and two gigantic octopuses. The work extends over twenty-five square meters and is evocative and monumental.
The perimeter walls instead accommodate:
a work in stucco bas-relief, which represents girls playing various musical instruments and children playing, entitled “Harmony”; a wall painting entitled “The Seasons”, a girl carrying in her womb the fruits and flowers of the Seasons of the year.
What is special about this Artist’s Studio are the stairs. They have become a support for bas-reliefs and paintings: everywhere, along the climb, you come across figures dancing or making music.
The ceiling of the Painting Studio is entirely made in bas-relief and represents girls dancing in the sky.
bas-relief dancer
The room at the top of the tower is the last room of the Artist’s Studio. Here, along the walls, paintings are made with a particular technique that gives an effect of plasticity and freshness. Inserted in three arch-shaped niches, three women dance naked.
painting dancers
In 2001 the Studio was sold to the artist photographer Andrea Pancino. He, passionate about Eremita’s works, redesigned all the rooms according to his own very refined aesthetic tastes, preserving and further enhancing the art of the previous owner.
A few small moves and a calibrated intervention to remodel the spaces gave birth to an environment that elevates the quality of life, stimulating reflection, contemplation and the desire to always surround oneself with beautiful things.
This architectural structure which, due to its antiquity and the different uses it has had over time, has taken on strong characteristics of suggestion and mystery, became an Artist’s Studio, receiving a unique expressive intensity, then passing through a new declination with the intervention of another artist, younger and with a different sensitivity, is a monument to the art that remains in the community of Ponzano Veneto.
It is a mixture of emotions that are distributed between history and the present, between the material of art, concrete and spiritual, and the past which was concrete but which now lies, as a memory.
The artist’s “casa picta” in Merlengo of Ponzano Veneto ( Treviso ).
The artist Mario Eremita purchased the property in 1983.
It is a very old house, the central part probably dates back to 1200. It was remodeled over time, finally becoming part of the neighboring Venetian Villa of Queen Cornaro of Cyprus where Giovan Battista Tiepolo painted his magnificent frescoes including the famous “Flora” , now preserved at the “Bailo” Museum in Treviso.
The house was in a state of complete abandonment and Eremita intended to carry out a recovery that would keep the structures and openings intact but which would allow the interiors to be completely rethought so that they were suitable for hosting his contemporary art inserts.
Inside, Eremita has freed his imagination by creating a personalized environment.
The following were performed:
wall paintings with the theme of the seasons and apotropaic symbols;
wall and ceiling bas-reliefs in plastic stucco with the theme of musicians, cupids, fruit, female figures, amazons, flamenco;
Ceiling bas-reliefs in painted concrete with the theme of dancing female figures;
floor mosaic “opus incertum” technique with the use of marble and granite of various colors, with the marine theme of octopuses and mermaid;
outdoor plastic stucco bas-reliefs with the theme of cupids and musicians.
This creation is a free expression of the imagination of the Artist who created an environment that is an expression of his art. The life lived inside an artist’s house is not comparable to that lived in a conventional home.
The artistic embellishment of the premises offers a very stimulating dialectical perspective and makes the aesthetic experience a natural part of everyday life, allowing the enrichment of the mind, reflection and contemplation; experiences with high added value.
