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FALO’ DELLE VANITA’
| category | Installation |
| subject | Political / Social |
| tags | LORENZODEIMEDICI, artcollector , artistitaliani , italia , baroque , barocco , italianstyle , artcouture , staybaroquestayfoolish , arteitaliana , loadingart , CARAVAGGIO, MICHELANGELO, MODIGLIANI, RAFFAELLO, rinascimentobarocco , CANOVA, BONALUMI, BERNINI, BURRI, ARTISTI, ESTINTORI, SAVONAROLA, VANITAS, VANITA', FALO', FALODELLEVANITA', contemporarycurator , italianartist , curator , italianartists , gallery , bellezza , arteitalia , beautiful, ARTENONARDEMAI |
| base | 200 cm |
| height | 300 cm |
| depth | 200 cm |
| year | 2020 |
VANITIES' BONFIRE (Plexiglass - n.8 Fire extinguishers with the names Michelangelo; Raffaello; Caravaggio; Bernini; Canova; Modigliani; Burri; Bonalumi - Baroque frame - Shoe with baroque heel)
VANITIES' BONFIRE EXHIBITED AT:
Personal Exhibition "RENAISSANCE 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!
VANITIES' BONFIRE:
A complex three-meter installation that evokes the evening of Shrove Tuesday, February 7, 1497, when the friar Savonarola and his followers burned in Piazza della Signoria 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. The fire extinguishers (Michelangelo; Raffaello; Caravaggio; Bernini; Canova; Modigliani; Burri; Bonalumi) come to the rescue as examples of the artistic geniuses that have followed one another from the Vanities’ Bonfire to the present day, who dominate the flames, controlling and extinguishing the great fire, precisely with their healthy artistic vanity and their genius that overwhelms those who try to set art on fire to destroy it. This is to show that Savonarola, who wanted to burn art, has lost: because ART NEVER BURNS, and the artistic geniuses that have followed one another over time have concretely demonstrated this.
The installation is combined by connecting with the LOADING ART works, present on display in the same room, first aid boxes for the Savonarolas of our time, the anemic of art who can cure themselves with a "transfusion of Vanitas", thus taking on art which becomes curative for their sensitivity.
LOADING ART TO SAVONAROLA!
VANITIES' BONFIRE EXHIBITED AT:
Personal Exhibition "RENAISSANCE 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!
VANITIES' BONFIRE:
A complex three-meter installation that evokes the evening of Shrove Tuesday, February 7, 1497, when the friar Savonarola and his followers burned in Piazza della Signoria 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. The fire extinguishers (Michelangelo; Raffaello; Caravaggio; Bernini; Canova; Modigliani; Burri; Bonalumi) come to the rescue as examples of the artistic geniuses that have followed one another from the Vanities’ Bonfire to the present day, who dominate the flames, controlling and extinguishing the great fire, precisely with their healthy artistic vanity and their genius that overwhelms those who try to set art on fire to destroy it. This is to show that Savonarola, who wanted to burn art, has lost: because ART NEVER BURNS, and the artistic geniuses that have followed one another over time have concretely demonstrated this.
The installation is combined by connecting with the LOADING ART works, present on display in the same room, first aid boxes for the Savonarolas of our time, the anemic of art who can cure themselves with a "transfusion of Vanitas", thus taking on art which becomes curative for their sensitivity.
LOADING ART TO SAVONAROLA!
