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LOADING ART TO SAVONAROLA!
| category | Video |
| subject | Political / Social |
| tags | beautiful, italianartists, barocco , artistitaliani , arteitaliana , LOADINGARTOSAVONAROLA, LOADIGART, LORENZODEIMEDICI, italia , arteitalia , italianartist , SAVONAROLA, FIRENZE, MEDICI, newbaroque , VIDEO, nuovorinascimento , rinascimentobarocco , staybaroquestayfoolish , italianstyle , artcollector , curator, youngartcollectors , contemporarycurator , baroque , artcouture , bellezza, galleryart , gallery |
| minutes | 0 |
| seconds | 56 |
| year | 2020 |
VIDEO AND PHOTO PROJECT SHOWN AT:
2020, Personal Exhibition "RINASCIMENTO feat. Barocco. LOADING ART" (Palazzo di Sorbello, Perugia, October 2020)
INTRO TO THE WORKS:
If the Renaissance is a proclamation to "seek" lessons from the past, from which to extract new light in the present, on the other hand, the Baroque is a hymn to "wonder", to the extraordinary creative and as such, timeless. These two historical examples can be fused together and well spent as teaching in the contemporary: the resulting synthesis is a RENAISSANCE-BAROQUE where "Amazement" and "Research" elevate man, through art armed with beauty. Beauty becomes man's solicitation, a vehicle for ascent, a stimulus for growth, food for thought. It is a clear invitation to "loading art": a common and essential good with which we have nourished ourselves in the past and continue to nourish ourselves today not only with our eyes ... Let us load ourselves with art, therefore; we must put art in the place it deserves, encouraging the growth of our cultural heritage, as our fathers taught us in the past.
The Baroque and the Renaissance, therefore, do not become a reference to a specific historical period, but a hymn to creativity, research, human intuition. An eternal concept, to be spent in the present. The Renaissance promoted by Lorenzo the Magnificent is just one of the glorious and brilliant historical examples of devotion to art and beauty as a means of growth. In the Renaissance, human intuition was nourished, because they were aware that it was the greatest form of investment in existence. Artistic genius was cultivated; promoting its dissemination to inspire all peoples. And it is an ever-current model, an evergreen example of acumen of extreme simplicity and practicability.
It is the creation of art, understood as a common good, to be preserved and kept alive. This is the message that my works harbor in desires. The days of physical confinement made us aware that nothing will be the same as before. And all the rebirths after the great epidemics are formal renewals, aesthetic renewals, but above all ethical; rebirth of something that is not absolutely necessary for survival, like art, but for this very reason, of extreme importance to survive. So ... LOADING ART!
The photographic and video projects, in collaboration with Anna Cuzzolin (ph) and Emilio Seri (vh), are stills of a story, they are eclectic and unreal sets, where the use of picto-sculptures, clothes and other inventions at stake: a dialogue between them, on a theater stage, protagonists of a human comedy that is a metaphor for that of art. In the baroque, colorful atmosphere, irony, glamor and iconography can be recognized which come together in a sort of advertising poster, between pop and fashion. A language that naturally becomes almost transgressive, for that subtle balance between the sacred and the profane to represent universal themes.
LOADING ART TO SAVONAROLA:
This photographic and video project, made in collaboration with the photographer Anna Cuzzolin and the director Emilio Seri, shot in the background of the frescoed rooms of Palazzo Ranieri di Sorbello in Perugia, represents the struggle between Lorenzo dei Medici, the creator of the "Garden of San Marco ”In Florence, (first Academy of Fine Arts in the world) and Savonarola. The Magnificent gives light to the senses through art; Savonarola, on the other hand, wants to burn art by considering it as ephemeral Vanitas.
Savonarola and his followers, on February 7, 1497, in Piazza della Signoria in Florence, burned with the famous "Vanities' Bonfire", thousands of objects considered impure, sinful, immoral, which in their opinion could generate vanity precisely. Among these, in addition to mirrors, cosmetics, luxurious clothes, also musical instruments, manuscripts, numerous drawings and paintings including those by Botticelli. The friar, who historically ended his days burned at the stake, is instead cured and saved in the video's imagination through a "TRANSFUSION OF VANITAS", a cure for art. This is to remind us that those who do not understand art must not "burn" it, considering it mere vanity: ART NEVER BURNS and, indeed, helps the human spirit to grow.
2020, Personal Exhibition "RINASCIMENTO feat. Barocco. LOADING ART" (Palazzo di Sorbello, Perugia, October 2020)
INTRO TO THE WORKS:
If the Renaissance is a proclamation to "seek" lessons from the past, from which to extract new light in the present, on the other hand, the Baroque is a hymn to "wonder", to the extraordinary creative and as such, timeless. These two historical examples can be fused together and well spent as teaching in the contemporary: the resulting synthesis is a RENAISSANCE-BAROQUE where "Amazement" and "Research" elevate man, through art armed with beauty. Beauty becomes man's solicitation, a vehicle for ascent, a stimulus for growth, food for thought. It is a clear invitation to "loading art": a common and essential good with which we have nourished ourselves in the past and continue to nourish ourselves today not only with our eyes ... Let us load ourselves with art, therefore; we must put art in the place it deserves, encouraging the growth of our cultural heritage, as our fathers taught us in the past.
The Baroque and the Renaissance, therefore, do not become a reference to a specific historical period, but a hymn to creativity, research, human intuition. An eternal concept, to be spent in the present. The Renaissance promoted by Lorenzo the Magnificent is just one of the glorious and brilliant historical examples of devotion to art and beauty as a means of growth. In the Renaissance, human intuition was nourished, because they were aware that it was the greatest form of investment in existence. Artistic genius was cultivated; promoting its dissemination to inspire all peoples. And it is an ever-current model, an evergreen example of acumen of extreme simplicity and practicability.
It is the creation of art, understood as a common good, to be preserved and kept alive. This is the message that my works harbor in desires. The days of physical confinement made us aware that nothing will be the same as before. And all the rebirths after the great epidemics are formal renewals, aesthetic renewals, but above all ethical; rebirth of something that is not absolutely necessary for survival, like art, but for this very reason, of extreme importance to survive. So ... LOADING ART!
The photographic and video projects, in collaboration with Anna Cuzzolin (ph) and Emilio Seri (vh), are stills of a story, they are eclectic and unreal sets, where the use of picto-sculptures, clothes and other inventions at stake: a dialogue between them, on a theater stage, protagonists of a human comedy that is a metaphor for that of art. In the baroque, colorful atmosphere, irony, glamor and iconography can be recognized which come together in a sort of advertising poster, between pop and fashion. A language that naturally becomes almost transgressive, for that subtle balance between the sacred and the profane to represent universal themes.
LOADING ART TO SAVONAROLA:
This photographic and video project, made in collaboration with the photographer Anna Cuzzolin and the director Emilio Seri, shot in the background of the frescoed rooms of Palazzo Ranieri di Sorbello in Perugia, represents the struggle between Lorenzo dei Medici, the creator of the "Garden of San Marco ”In Florence, (first Academy of Fine Arts in the world) and Savonarola. The Magnificent gives light to the senses through art; Savonarola, on the other hand, wants to burn art by considering it as ephemeral Vanitas.
Savonarola and his followers, on February 7, 1497, in Piazza della Signoria in Florence, burned with the famous "Vanities' Bonfire", thousands of objects considered impure, sinful, immoral, which in their opinion could generate vanity precisely. Among these, in addition to mirrors, cosmetics, luxurious clothes, also musical instruments, manuscripts, numerous drawings and paintings including those by Botticelli. The friar, who historically ended his days burned at the stake, is instead cured and saved in the video's imagination through a "TRANSFUSION OF VANITAS", a cure for art. This is to remind us that those who do not understand art must not "burn" it, considering it mere vanity: ART NEVER BURNS and, indeed, helps the human spirit to grow.
