The Classic in Art
About exhibition
Curator: Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
September-November 2014
The exhibition The Classic in Art, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and organized by Accademia Carrara of Bergamo, GAMeC and the Museum of Calques “Ernesto de la Cárcova” of Buenos Aires, attempts to highlight the survival of images through time. The curator analyses and recognizes the worth of the concept of “copy”, both in sculpture and painting. Throughout the three gallery rooms, the exhibition explores the concepts of classical art, religion, body and portraiture.
In Gallery room 1, the calque of Michelangelo's Pieta organizes the tour to develop the subject of death, the significance of sacrifice and the currency of religious rules in art. Thus, from the figure of motherhood and piety, Kiki Smith´s work Pyre Woman Kneeling describes the suffering of a woman at the stake, along with works that portray the final judgment and the various interpretations of life and death.
In Gallery room 2, once more Michelangelo with the artwork Head of David is the central figure in the gallery that displays various concepts of portrait throughout history. From the portrait bourgeois to Sam Durant contemporary artwork, where the busts of a group of Italian anarchists update the gender as recognition to those whose ideas transformed the community´ political and social foundations. Including also the selfportrait or intimate portrait, where Alfredo Pirri takes an infinite number of copies from his own face; as well as Charles Avery single portrait, that depicts his friends and builds characters as phylosophers of a fictional world.
In Gallery room 3, the exhibition recovers the importance of the body and the concept of fragment which, taken from ancient times, introduces us to the world of modernity. Pistoletto's work with its mirror, L´Etrusco, proposes us to be both spectators and participants at the same time, questioning the piece’ authorship. Is the viewer or the artist who realize the work? Or are they both? Therefore, Shirin, Abbas Kiarostami's film that registers the faces of the spectators during an imaginary projection, closes the exhibition giving a role of relevance to the public.
The Classic in Art offers various paths, ways of reading and approaching the classical to the contemporary.
Credits
With the colaboration of the Embassy of Italy in Argentina and the permanent sponsor of Tenaris – Organización Techint
Curator
Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
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Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
Galleriad´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo- GAMeC
IUNA- Museo de Calcos y Escultura Comparada “Ernesto de la Cárcova”, Buenos Aires
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires
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Lenders
Accademia Carrara, Comune di Bergamo
Cittadellarte - FondazionePistoletto, Biella
Collezione Giuseppe Iannaccone, Milano
Fondazione Marconi, Milano
Franco SoffiantinoContemporary Art Production, Torino
GalleriaLiaRumma, Milano
GalleriaMonica De Cardenas, Milano
Nctm e l’arte, Milano
TucciRusso Studio per l’ArteContemporanea, Torino
Museo de Calcos "Ernesto de la Cárcova” - IUNA, Buenos Aires
Coordination
Sara Fumagalli, Valentina Rapelli, Valentina Gervasoni - GAMeC
Cintia Mezza, Cecilia Jaime, Mercedes Longo Brea - Depto. Programación F. Proa
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Expository Design
Giacinto DiPietrantonio
Pablo Zaefferer, Soledad Oliva
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Conservation
Teresa Gowland, Delfina Fagnani
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Image Design
Guillermo Goldschmidt, Jorge Lewis, Rafael Medel
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Education
Paulina Guarnieri, Rosario GarcíaMartínez, CamilaVillarruel
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Educators
NoemíAira, LaiaRosComerma, Cora Papic, Juan Carlos Urrutia
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Instalation
Ezequiel Verona, Marcela Galardi, Marcela Oliva, Jorge OpazoEllicker,
Hernán Torres, Eduardo Gismondi, Esteban Campili y Diego Mur
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Ilumination
Patricio Tejedor, Claudio Del Bianco
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Translation
Jaime Arrambide, María Clara Canzani