SANTINA RICUPERO. IMPRONTE VIVE

Curated by Dino Marangon
Cultural Center Villa XXV Aprile, Mirano (VE)
April 11 – May 17, 2026
 
The personal exhibition Santina Ricupero. Living Imprints, curated by Professor Dino Marangon, will be inaugurated on Saturday April 11, 2026, at 5:00 PM, at the Cultural Center Villa XXV Aprile in Mirano.
 
The exhibition features works on paper, sculptures, and installations from 2012 to 2025, along with some works from the 2000s, and is promoted by the Municipality of Mirano, Department of Culture, in collaboration with the associations Casa delle Muse and Casa Mia Santa Bertilla. The exhibition coincides with the presentation of the artist's first monograph published by the publishing house Il Prato.
 
Born in Canicattini Bagni (SR) and residing in Mirano since 1980, Santina Ricupero has been developing research focused on the relationship between nature, matter, and memory for decades. The works on display range from graphite and pastel drawings to large papers worked with charcoal, acrylic, and bitumen, from layered collages and sculptures in black clay and resin to installations where wisteria trunks interact with mirrors and plaster casts. Her work arises from a gesture that is both analytical and visceral: burning, tearing, layering, reassembling. Matter becomes a trace of time, the wound becomes form.
Among the most significant cycles of her recent production is the one dedicated to the wisteria that was cut down near her home: from that loss, works on paper, resin sculptures, and installations intertwining loss with beauty were born.
Thirty-five years after her first solo exhibition in Mirano, this exhibition restores the coherence and depth of an artistic journey developed over decades of passionate work.
 
Maria Francesca di Raimondo, Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Mirano: “This exhibition, which symbolically concludes Marzo Donna, embodies the constant search for a deeper meaning that soothes the soul without explanation. A significance that Santina Ricupero, a woman artist and our fellow citizen, seeks and finds through attentive and participatory observation of the real, and then continues symbolically with her eyes closed, in a more interior and meditative dimension. It is exactly in this journey, and thanks to this journey, that we recover the thread of many existences, never truly the same, never truly different.”
 
Tiziano Baggio, Mayor of Mirano: “The exhibition “Living Imprints” marks the beginning of the path of the Cultural Center Villa XXV Aprile, recently established by the Municipality of Mirano as a cultural venue. It is a choice with which we intend to provide continuity and greater recognition to the artistic initiatives of the city, enhancing quality proposals. Special appreciation goes to the artist Santina Ricupero, the protagonist of the first exhibition organized by the new Center, for her intense and coherent research that contributes to enriching our cultural landscape.”
 
The curator
Dino Marangon, art historian and critic specialized in the twentieth century, PhD in Contemporary Art History, has curated exhibitions and monographs of contemporary and historicized artists, including Giorgio Morandi, Virgilio Guidi, Tancredi, and Alberto Viani, and has contributed to the volume Painting in Italy. The Twentieth Century/2 (Electa).
 
 
Inauguration Saturday, April 11, 2026, at 5:00 PM
Presentation Dino Marangon and Francesca Giubilei
Location Cultural Center Villa “XXV Aprile”, via Mariutto n. 1 - Mirano (VE)
Duration April 11 – May 17, 2026
Hours Thursday – Sunday: 3:30 PM – 7:00 PM; Sunday also: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
 
The artist will be present for guided tours to the public on April 25, 26, and May 9 from 3:30 PM to 7:00 PM
 
Free entry
 
For information: Department of Culture of the Municipality of Mirano, tel. 041 5798487, email cultura.turismo@comune.mirano.ve.itWorks on paper, sculptures, installations
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