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The volume is dedicated to the work of Jenny Saville (Cambridge,
1970), one of the greatest contemporary painters and a leading
voice in the international art scene. Saville transcends the limits
between figurative and abstract, between informal and gestural,
managing to transfigure the news into a universal image, which puts
the human figure at the center of the history of art. Huge, naked
bodies, with a carnal physicality and oppressed by a weight that is
more existential than material, Saville is linked to the great
European pictorial tradition in constant comparison with the
modernism of Willem de Kooning and Cy Twombly and the portraiture
of Pablo Picasso and Francis Bacon. Her work also outlines a strong
correlation with the masters of the Italian Renaissance, in
particular with some of Michelangelo’s great masterpieces.Â
The volume contains a rich catalogue of paintings and drawings from
the 1990s to today.
Beautiful Lies documents Teheran-born, New York-based artist Ali
Banisadr's 2021 show in Florence in honour of the 700th anniversary
of the death of Dante Alighieri. The "beautiful lies" beneath which
truth is hidden is an expression used by Dante in describing his
writing - and allegorical poetry in general - and it is perfectly
suited to Banisadr's work. His powerful brushwork and strong
colours go below the surface of his personal reality, revealing
violence and isolation, anguish and wonder, but also memories and
imagination. For this show, which was split between two venues, he
was commissioned to create an installation of site-specific
paintings (also called Beautiful Lies). The text is by Sergio
Risaliti, director of the Museo Novecento in Florence.
Senza data (Undated), an exhibition at the Stefano Bardini Museum
in Florence, presents a series of works by Italian artist Luca
Pignatelli painted on railway tarpaulins, wood, paper, sheet metal,
and Persian carpets from the early 20th century. The painted
carpets stand out immediately for their size and their link with
the vast collection of carpets in the museum. Luca Pignatelli
studied architectural composition during the period influenced by
the theories of Aldo Rossi and the idea of the sedimentary growth
of history. He is an artist able to accept the challenge of
large-scale paintings, working with unusual supports on which he
overlays his own selection of images, icons of collective memory
like trains, planes, machines, and relics of classical culture.
This catalogue includes an interview with the artist and an essay
by director of the Museo Novecento in Florence.
Italian sculptor Davide Rivalta seeks out wild animals in their
natural habitat and in captivity, then creates sculptures in bronze
that capture their energy, otherness, and power. This book
documents an exhibition at the Forte di Belvedere in Florence,
where Rivalta turns the gallery and garden into a savannah with
life-size buffalos, eagles, wolves, and a rhinoceros. Site-specific
wall drawings of large birds highlight another artistic practice
that the artist uses to explore the untamed essence of the animal
world. His works are on show in permanent exhibitions in various
cities, both in Italy and abroad, and have been shown in many art
galleries and museums.
The Belvedere Fortress is the main location for this exhibition
involving the whole city and including the Uffizi Gallery, Boboli
Gardens, Palazzo Vecchio, Palazzo Pitti, Basilica of Santa Croce,
Museo Novecento, and Museo Marino Marini. Each location exhibits
the works of some of Italy's most important contemporary artists.
The 12 protagonists are: Giovanni Anselmo, Marco Bagnoli, Domenico
Bianchi, Alighiero Boetti, Gino De Dominicis, Luciano Fabro, Jannis
Kounellis, Mario Merz, Nunzio, Mimmo Paladino, Giulio Paolini and
Remo Salvadori. The catalogue narrates this widely varied
exhibition with contributions by recognised international art
critics. Comprehensive data sheets provide detailed descriptions of
the works by each artist on show. Extensive iconographic material,
including images from archives and photos of the works on show,
each in their respective location, will complete the narrative of
this important event.
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Equilibrium (Paperback)
Stefania Ricci; Sergio Risaliti
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We have been walking upright for almost six million years and soon
learned how to offload our body's weight on the arch of the foot.
Salvatore Ferragamo dedicated all his life to the study of the
foot's anatomy, also researching into architecture and engineering,
as we can understand by looking at his patents. Walking, dancing
barefoot or en pointe, advancing along a wire in the manner of a
tight-rope walker, climbing mountains, stepping and marching on
orders, wandering about to find oneself, roaming around: these are
just some of the themes dealt with in Equilibrium, the new project
by the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, curated by Stefania Ricci and
Sergio Risaliti. This volume is based on the comparison among
magnificent, important and meaningful artworks of various origin.
The project has been developed through several media: painting,
sculpture, photography, video, cinema and printed editions. The
geometric balancing of Wassily Kandinsky is displayed alongside the
thread-like structures of Fausto Melotti; Albrecht Durer's Fortuna
with Giulio Paolini's funambulist; and portraits of Nijinsky
alongside those of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and Trisha Brown.
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