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Still Life of the Fountain _ site specific installation in Palazzo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, 2014

Still Life of the Fountain _ site specific installation in Palazzo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, 2014

Fake Marble #5, #6 _ installation view in Palazzo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, 2014

Fake Marble #5, #6 _ installation view in Palazzo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, 2014

Moths and Butterflies _ installation view in Gallerie d’Italia, Milan, 2014

Wunderkammer _ AA. VV., pp.232. Skira / Mazzotta editions

WUNDERKAMMER . Palazzo Poldi Pezzoli e Gallerie d’Italia | Milano _ 2014 _ group show

• GROUP SHOW curated by Martina Mazzotta and Lavinia Galli

The exhibition explores the relationships between art, nature and wonder through the phenomenon of the Wunderkammer, notes “Chambers of Wonder” by late Renaissance.

The exhibition is quite distant from the traditional icon-logic perspective; it crosses different situations and moments of the history of art, collectors, science, philosophy, with an interdisciplinary approach that starts from the sixteenth century and comes up to the contemporary. Twentieth century art, in fact, and specifically the art of certain avant-garde, has regained a system of wonder that the advent of modern science had removed. Juxtaposing to works and artifacts belonging to the sixth-seventeenth century contemporary art presences, the exhibition aims to stimulate the viewer to trace analogies, references and correspondences between the meanings involved in the multifaceted and complex phenomenon of the Wunderkammer.

Many artists in the exhibition including Gianfranco Baruchello, Maurizio Cattelan, Damien Hirst, Jannis Kounellis, Piero Manzoni, Mario Merz, Pino Pascali.

• MOSTRA COLLETTIVA a cura di Martina Mazzotta e Lavinia Galli

La mostra indaga i rapporti tra arte, natura e meraviglia attraverso il fenomeno delle Wunderkammer, le note “camere delle meraviglie” di epoca tardorinascimentale.

L’esposizione prescinde da una prospettiva iconologica tradizionale, per attraversare diverse situazioni e momenti della storia dell’arte, del collezionismo, della scienza, della filosofia, con un approccio transdisciplinare che parte dal Cinquecento e arriva fino alla contemporaneità. L’arte del XX secolo infatti, e nello specifico l’arte di certe avanguardie, si è riappropriata di un sistema della meraviglia che l’avvento della scienza moderna aveva rimosso. Accostando a opere e manufatti cinque-seicenteschi presenze dell’arte contemporanea, la mostra intende stimolare l’osservatore a rintracciare analogie, rimandi e corrispondenze tra i significati implicati nel multiforme e complesso fenomeno delle Wunderkammer.

Numerosi gli artisti in mostra tra cui Gianfranco Baruchello, Maurizio Cattelan, Damien Hirst, Jannis Kounellis, Piero Manzoni, Mario Merz, Pino Pascali.

/// Where

MUSEO POLDI PEZZOLI and GALLERIE D’ITALIA, Milan, Italy

/// When

from November, 15, 2013 to March, 2, 2014

/// Curator

Lavinia Galli and Martina Mazzotta

/// Exhibited works

Still Life of the Fountain (2013), Fake Marble #5, #6 (2013)

/// Catalogue

WUNDERKAMMER. Arte, Natura, Meraviglia ieri e oggi, group exhibition catalogue, Skira/Mazzotta editions, Geneve-Milan, 2013. 232 pp.


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