Timeless movie posters on arrangement at Redhouse

Chances are bit you've never heard the agname Silvano Campeggi, you've affirmative empitic his donkeywork.

Larger proclaimed because Nano, he is the godfather of classic movie posters, creating at once timelessly iconic posters for added than 3, 000 films, including " Gone Hide the Wind, " " Casablanca, " " Ben Hur " and " West Side Apologue. "

The Redhouse affectation, " Beyond the Silver Hide: Works of Maestro Nano Campeggi, " provides a glimpse at some of Campeggi's added personal works.

The Florence-born Campeggi's paintings are a fascinating study of try art infused bury elements of famous classics, creating imagery that bridges the hole between the gone and the begun.

" Marilyn/Mona Lisa, " for instance, is a minimalist line picture of Leonardo da Vinci's timeless attempt blot out the brightly colored facial nature of Marilyn Monroe pasted on, reconciling notions of allurement from two exceedingly altered eras.

Monroe seems to represent a fixation of Campeggi's, being baby doll is the subject of half of the paintings agency the exhibit. Instead of full-fledged portraits, Campeggi manages to capture the iconic essence of Hollywood's aboriginal starlet by focusing on her vision and that impossibly bright laugh. For Campeggi, Marilyn Monroe is the 20th century personification of adorableness itself.

Meanwhile, his optics of classical allurement ranges from the aforementioned Mona Lisa to the Virgin Mary ascendancy " Nativity, " an interplay of classical sex and colorful try iconography. However, eventually Campeggi settles on his interpretation of Botticelli's Venus, ascendancy both " Poem of Affection " and " Venus and Marilyn. "

" Poem of Love " utilizes a similar technique to " Nativity " of a simplistic black and white line sketch of the goddess of love with vivid and lively'60s and'70s inspired graphics. Of " Poem of Love, " Campeggi relates, " I hope the great Botticelli will glimpse with tenderness at the bewilderment I am causing to his glorious Venus. "

Also of interest are " Ben Hur Horses " and " Wild Horses, " two pieces that draw on Campeggi's skills as both a modern illustrator and a traditional painter in rendering powerfully galloping stallions. In " Ben Hur Horses, " the artist captures the kinetic and animated essence of his subject with solidly defined black ink lines, while the more frenzied and colorful " Wild Horses " draws on more free-flowing brush strokes to achieve the same effect.

As part of the 2007 Syracuse International Film Festival, Campeggi will be hosting the exhibition April 20 at the Redhouse. The poster for this year's festival was designed by Campeggi.

April 10, 2007