MAN AND ART

Giorgio de Chirico, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Jannis Kounellis, Gino Marotta, Giulio Paolini, Mario Schifano

The gallery reopens its new venue with the exhibition “The Man and the Art”. Once again it underlines the importance of the relationship with history as a founding element of the various expressions of visual art. A selection of works by contemporary artists, in which the reference to past and more recent art history is evident, is mirrored in an unprecedented comparison with the original sources of inspiration. This presents a dialogue that reveals the history of images and questions the collective representations of the Western memory and culture. The exhibition will outline the results of a research that the iconologist Aby Warburg would have called the eternal “survival of the ancient”.