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Still life of the fountain

Still life of the fountain

Still life of the fountain

Fake Marble #5, #6

Fake Marble #5, #6

Moths and Butterflies

wunderkammer, catalogue

WUNDERKAMMER . Palazzo Poldi Pezzoli, Gallerie d’Italia, Milan

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.

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

Group exhibition curated by 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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