Eventos
Museo Correr - Astrazioni
Abstractions, at the Museo Correr from 5th june to 4th october 2009
Abstractions, at the Museo Correr from 5th june to 4th october 2009, is part of the project Futurismo 100, an exhibition trilogy that will touch three important cities for the artistic movement to celebrate his centenary.
In concomitance with the 53rd edition of the Venice Biennale, Abstractions represents an opportunity for a critical revision of the very concept of abstraction and the diverse meanings this term acquired during the course of the progressive detachment of the avant-garde movements from earlier artistic strands.
Thanks to a comparison between the works of the maestro of Italian Futurism Giacomo Balla and those of the great contemporary European artists, the surpassing of the more “technical” abstractions already experimented in Cubism is highlighted.
Balla’s works constitute the term of comparision with those of the other great contemporary artists: from the research of Piet Mondrian, focussing on the unveiling of the fundamental elements in the representation of nature (line and colour) to the ironic representations of Francis Picabia and his bizarre Dadaist machines, from the search for the essential of Robert Delauney and Frantisek Kupka, brough together by research into the correpsondence between sound and colour, through to the biting provocations of Marcel Duchamp who proves to have much in common with the poetic of the Futurist maestro.
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From 5/6/09 To 4/10/09
Place: Museo Correr
Where: Piazza San Marco
Contacts: Tel: +39 041 5209070, mkt.musei@comune.venezia.it - www.museiciviciveneziani.it
Abstractions, at the Museo Correr from 5th june to 4th october 2009, is part of the project Futurismo 100, an exhibition trilogy that will touch three important cities for the artistic movement to celebrate his centenary.
In concomitance with the 53rd edition of the Venice Biennale, Abstractions represents an opportunity for a critical revision of the very concept of abstraction and the diverse meanings this term acquired during the course of the progressive detachment of the avant-garde movements from earlier artistic strands.
Thanks to a comparison between the works of the maestro of Italian Futurism Giacomo Balla and those of the great contemporary European artists, the surpassing of the more “technical” abstractions already experimented in Cubism is highlighted.
Balla’s works constitute the term of comparision with those of the other great contemporary artists: from the research of Piet Mondrian, focussing on the unveiling of the fundamental elements in the representation of nature (line and colour) to the ironic representations of Francis Picabia and his bizarre Dadaist machines, from the search for the essential of Robert Delauney and Frantisek Kupka, brough together by research into the correpsondence between sound and colour, through to the biting provocations of Marcel Duchamp who proves to have much in common with the poetic of the Futurist maestro.
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From 5/6/09 To 4/10/09
Place: Museo Correr
Where: Piazza San Marco
Contacts: Tel: +39 041 5209070, mkt.musei@comune.venezia.it - www.museiciviciveneziani.it
