Artist Curtains: "Shamorra" by Gianni Asdrubali

Teatro Cartiere Carrara presents Shamorra, a newly created curtain by Gianni Asdrubali: a large-scale painted fabric conceived as an original intervention within the theatrical space.

Key features of the work and project:

• Size: approximately 15 m x 6.5 m, painted directly onto the curtain fabric by hand.
• Technique: broad, rapid gestures adapted to the monumental format; non-conventional tools (including a broom) were used to achieve specific textures and strokes.
• Process: executed in about five hours with the help of one assistant, emphasizing immediacy and frontal presence.
• Artistic approach: Asdrubali's work explores the relationship between form and space; Shamorra amplifies chromatic and rhythmic motifs from his practice since the 1980s into a monumental scale.

This project is part of the Sipari d’artista series, which since 2005 has commissioned site-specific curtain works by leading Italian artists.

Vernissage

• Date: Saturday 16 May 2026
• Time: 11:30
• Admission: free
• Guests: the artist Gianni Asdrubali and critic Marco Tonelli will attend the presentation.

Practical information

• Venue: Teatro Cartiere Carrara, via Fabrizio De André corner Lungarno Aldo Moro, Florence
• Website: www.teatrocartierecarrara.it
• Phone: 055.6504112

For contemporary art enthusiasts, Shamorra offers a chance to see large-scale painting applied to a theatrical element: a piece that converses with the stage space and invites both emotional and formal engagement.