Rudi Ninov
Colour Notes in Epilogue
L’intervento diffuso dell'artista si sviluppa proprio sui curiosi contrasti di portico e san benedetto che della diversità e dell’accoglienza sembra averne fatto un tratto identitario.
Rudi Ninov, Colour Notes in Epilogue, 2021, Portico e San Benedetto (FC), Emilia-Romagna. Ph. Gionata Possenti e Alessandro Rinaldi
The interest of Rudi Ninov (Teteven, 1992) in early animated films and their cinematic mechanism is fundamental to his work. In contrast to the weightlessness and graphic power of the two-dimensional work of his canvases, his sculptures present a tactility and a material multiplicity of tensions, surface textures and colors, which like crazy codes refer to different semantic spheres. Graduated from Goldsmith College in London, he continues his studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. Winner of the Cultural Perspectives Foundation Scholarship, Bulgaria in 2019, and The Neville Burston Award for Painting, UK in 2015, among his most recent exhibitions are: ‘Pretty sure it’s just the wind’, Goethe Institute and ‘SWIMMING POOL’, Sofia in 2021, and ‘ORBIT’, Messeturm, Frankfurt, in 2020.
Portico e San Benedetto is an Emilia-Romagna town of 732 residents in the province of Forlì-Cesena, whose namesake cities are 34 and 53km away, respectively. It is made up of three hamlets: Portico di Romagna, a medieval village and the hometown of Folco Portinari, father of Beatrice, where you can visit the Ponte della Maestà, Portinari Tower and garden and the Pieve S. Maria in Girone; Bocconi, a smaller hamlet and home to the bridge and waterfall of Brusia; and San Benedetto in Alpe, where in the upper part (Poggio) you can admire the Benedictine Abbey and the waterfall of Acquacheta, which Dante mentioned in the XVI canto of Inferno.