Two Exhibitions
dal 18/3/2009 al 12/9/2009
Segnalato da
Claudio Abate
Aurelio Amendola
Gabriele Basilico
Sandro Becchetti
Gianni Berengo Gardin
Elisabetta Catalano
Giorgio Colombo
Mario Cresci
Mario Dondero
Federico Garolla
Luigi Ghirri
Mario Giacomelli
Gianfranco Gorgoni
Mimmo Jodice
Nanda Lanfranco
Uliano Lucas
Attilio Marazano
Nino Migliori
Ugo Mulas
Paolo Mussat Sartor
Paolo Pellion
Ferdinando Scianna
18/3/2009
Two Exhibitions
Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts, Bruxelles
United artists of Italy is a surprising and at the same time familiar look at the Italian art scene in the second half of the 20th century is offered by 150 photographs taken by 22 Italian photographers. Most are portraits of artists, but others show gallery-owners, architects, designers, writers, and directors. For its 80th birthday, the Centre for fine Arts has brought up from its archives portraits of the remarkable figures who have created its history and built its international reputation. Curated by Frank Vanhaecke.
United artists of Italy
Co-production: Galleria Massimo Minini
A surprising and at the same time familiar look at the Italian art scene in the second half of the 20th century is offered by 150 photographs taken by 22 Italian photographers. Most are portraits of artists, but others show gallery-owners, architects, designers, writers, and directors. Each photographer has a particular way of situating these individuals in the socio-cultural context of arte povera and the transavantgardia. Massimo Minini began to collect the artist portraits as an alternative form of art history. "If the contemporary can be seen as a way in which the work of art is in its time and is connected to the great themes of the moment," says Minini, "then the maximum tension of the contemporary is not achieved in the work itself, but in its creator who lives in that time, interprets it, makes it speak, underpins it, and determines its forms in space and time."
The photographers:
Claudio Abate - Aurelio Amendola - Gabriele Basilico - Sandro Becchetti - Gianni Berengo Gardin - Elisabetta Catalano - Giorgio Colombo - Mario Cresci - Mario Dondero - Federico Garolla - Luigi Ghirri - Mario Giacomelli - Gianfranco Gorgoni - Mimmo Jodice - Nanda Lanfranco - Uliano Lucas - Attilio Marazano - Nino Migliori - Ugo Mulas - Paolo Mussat Sartor - Paolo Pellion - Ferdinando Scianna
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80 Years of the Centre for Fine Arts in Pictures
Curator: Frank Vanhaecke
For its 80th birthday, the Centre for fine Arts has brought up from its archives portraits of the remarkable figures who have created its history and built its international reputation. Rediscover them in BOZAR LXXX, a beautiful book commemorating this birthday, or in an exhibition of all its artwork, Portraits of Artists: 80 Years of the Centre for Fine Arts in Pictures. Henry le Boeuf, founder of the Centre for Fine Arts, and Victor Horta, his brilliant architect, share the limelight with the composers Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Bartók, the conductors Karajan, Boulez and Mengelberg and the painters Magritte, Braque and Léger. Some hundred photographs result in a beautiful pictorial history of portraits and a great story, revived today with Luc Tuymans, Cecilia Bartoli and Woody Allen.
Image: Paolo Pellion - Giuseppe Penone, 1972 © Galleria Massimo Minini
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Opening march 19
Bozar Centre for Fine Arts
Rue Ravensteinstraat 23 - Brussels
Open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10.00 to 18.00, and until 21.00 on Thursdays
Free admission