Speranza

Rinaldo Invernizzi returns to Castello Valsolda fifteen years after his first exhibition in the church of San Martino where, beneath the stunning vault frescoed by the painter Paolo Pagani, he presented the show titled ‘Sacra Rappresentazione’ (Sacred Representation). This time he is a guest in no less than the home of the famous painter from Castello, who was born there on 22 September 1655, and which is nowadays a museum named after him. This is why his first two paintings in the exhibition are intended as a homage to Paolo Pagani, with the façade elevation of his home, characterized by the presence of the busts of Caesar Emperors, as befits a noble residence, the only one of its kind in the area.

Invernizzi exhibits around twenty paintings which are part of his 2021 series dedicated to nature in all its seasonal manifestations. His work fits perfectly with the bucolic context of the villages belonging to Valsolda, where elements such as the water of the lake with its play of light, or the grass of the lawns, occasionally caressed by the wind, transpire a spirituality that reveals the presence of the divine in nature. Just as Antonio Fogazzaro, the writer and painter with links to Valsolda on his mother’s side of the family, had done at the end of the nineteenth century, with his novels and poems in which Valsolda always appears as a protagonist.