On Monday May 22 at the Sala di Rappresentanza of Genoa Municipality, ABC-ARTE will present with the Patronage of Genoa Municipality a rich monographic book dedicated to Alan Bee, curated by Flaminio Gualdoni and Luca Bocchichio edited by Silvana Editoriale.
During the presentation, together with researchers of the Alan Bee work and eminent representatives of Genoa Municipality, will speak Prof. Flaminio Gualdoni, curator of the book and B.A. Sergio Di Stefano, Editorial director of Silvana Editoriale.
Alan Bee is the pseudonym of a major player in the world of business and an important personality in the panorama of European art of the last few decades. With passion and brilliance he has constructed his own fully-fledged personage, giving him a name and a series of plausible biographical suggestions completely compatible with the physical corpus of his works.
Alan Bee is the artist you do not expect; the one who has no need of a museum, an art gallery, an exhibition, and, absurdly, not even a book. In fact, his purpose was never to achieve a certain visibility: he never saw his own production as a possible financial instrument, but rather as a message that could get through to anyone with great simplicity and that summed up some essential elements in a few keywords: solidarity, equity, defence of nature, collaboration, cohesion.
Talented and lively, Alan Bee focused his work, which he authorised for release only after his death, on an irrepressible fascination with the virtuous world of bees, the bearers and custodians of harmonious rhythms and times, symbol of an inviolable order of the world: a model that extends to the ideal concept of humanitas, understood as fullness and pride of human dignity. Bee was always its champion and defender, giving voice through his works to the fundamental values and rights of all creatures, above all freedom.
That sense of liberty that he assumed in a powerful way in his artistic practice is declined in an original language, never capable of being assimilated to the familiar codes of the contemporay.
Thanks to this book you will encounter a ‘prophet’ who speaks through images, a man who has had the courage to look towards the future in the hope that it could be better than how our disillusionment has ‘painted’ it.
