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white - Christian Fogarolli

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  Christian Fogarolli curated by Chiara Ianeselli

Opening on Friday February 1st, 2013 7:00 pm February 2nd, 2013 – March 31st, 2013

    Arte Boccanera is pleased to present white of Christian Fogarolli, following the worldwide recognition of dOCUMENTA (13). The artist shows in the exhibition space the projects lost identities, worthy of the international scene in Kassel, and blackout.

  In the work lost identities, Christian Fogarolli - interested from the very beginning of his career in questions challenging the essence of the identity dimension – explores the archive of an Italian psychiatric institution. Working with the examined documentation allowed the establishment of a close dialogue, able to go further and deeper than the first shocking harshness of the images, expanding the boundaries of the project and giving new presence to a passed temporal dimension. In fact, the seriality of the pictures selected in the mental hospital, is immediately checkmated by the artist Fogarolli through a continuous metamorphosis of shapes and used techniques, giving birth to unexpected standpoints, which would be otherwise not historically accessible. In line with the approach of research and experimentation that characterizes his work, Fogarolli explores his thresholds of perception of the terrible and the viewers’ ones, placing them in the middle of the concept through site-specific installations that cannot fail to surprise.

The underlying melody continues in the second project installed, blackout, which allows the visitor to touch the accumulation of a lifetime of Miss Swann, whose alienation fascinates the observer inevitably involved in the anxiety of collecting. The video Hotel-Dieu documents this research through and for madness, in such a depth to become expression itself. Released for the opening the exhibition catalogue, in Italian and English, with the curator’s essay, the works’ on show images.

  Christian Fogarolli (Trento, 1983) obtains in 2010 the Master Inside the image: study, diagnosis and restoration of antique, modern, contemporary paintings, and the following year he graduates in the Master’s Degree of Management and Conservation of Cultural Heritage at the University of Trento. Among recent acknowledgments The Worldly House, dOCUMENTA (13) – Kassel, and The magnificent obsession, (2012/2013) Mart – Rovereto as special guest, the 54th Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion, Turin.

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Curated by Chiara Ianeselli Arte Boccanera  via Milano 128/130, Trento

Opening hours:  Tuesday – Saturday 10 am - 1 pm, 4 - 7 pm or on appointment www.arteboccanera.com  [email protected]  p. +39 0461.984206 | m + 39 340.5747013

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Delacroix painting at Lens Louvre gallery defaced with permanent marker

A woman has been arrested after defacing a painting by Eugène Delacroix at the Louvre satellite museum in Lens. The 28-year-old told police she had scrawled "AE911'' with an indelible marker on the painting, Liberty Leading the People, to draw attention to an organisation that appears to believe the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy... Read more here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/feb/08/delacroix-painting-defaced-louvre

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Marie Antoinette Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun 1783 National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

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In Advance of the Broken Arm (Fourth version, after lost original of November 1915) Marcel Duchamp 1964 Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA 

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Grimani Breviary: The Month of December Flemish Minaturist  1490-1510 Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy

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Mosaic with Street Musicians Dioskourides of Samos 1st century BCE The Naples National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy This Mosaic with Street Musicians, signed by Dioskourides of Samos was found in the so-called Villa of Cicero near the ancient city of Pompeii. The mosaic depicts an episode from a comedy, since the figures are wearing theatrical masks. The figures are playing musical instruments often connected with the cult of Cybele: the tambourine, small cymbals and the double flute.

This particular mosaic dates from the first century BCE, but the scene is known from the 3rd century BCE onward. It is found in paintings and mosaics until the 3rd century CE. The play is not immediately identifiable from this mosaic. (http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/1089_Mosaic_with_Street_Musicians.html)

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Girl with a Pearl Earring Jan Vermeer (Johannes Vermeer, Johan Vermeer) c. 1665-1666 Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, The Hague, South Holland, The Netherlands  Why is the Girl with the pearl earring Vermeer’s best-loved painting? It must have something to do with the fact that the girl looks over her shoulder, as though hoping to see who is standing behind her. This draws the viewer into the picture, suggesting that he is the one who has made the girl turn her head.

Equally important, though, are Vermeer’s fresh colours, virtuoso technique and subtle rendering of light effects. The turban is enlivened, for example, with the small highlights that are Vermeer’s trademark. The pearl, too, is very special, consisting of little more than two brushstrokes: a bright accent at its upper left and the soft reflection of the white collar on its underside.

Then there is the girl herself, who gazes at us, wide-eyed, her sensual mouth parted. She makes an uninhibited, somewhat expectant impression that cannot help exciting our interest, even though we have no idea who she is. (mauritshuis.nl)

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The Art Critic (Saturday Evening Post Cover April 16, 1955) Norman Rockwell 1955 The Norman Rockwell Museum of Stockbridge, Stockbridge, MA, USA

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Untitled Mark Rothko 1968 Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York, USA 

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Still-life with Turkey-Pie Pieter Claesz 1627 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam That "turkey-pie" looks... undercooked? - @irockgnomes 

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Folio from Uta makura (The Poem of the Pillow) Kitagawa Utamaro 1788 (Edo Period) The British Museum, London, UK The album 'Poem of the Pillow' is a masterpiece among the erotic works by Utamaro (died 1806), and indeed, among the entire erotica of the Ukiyo-e school. Utamaro has avoided the stereotypical scenes of love-making that were often produced at the time, and instead created an innovative and powerfully sensual design. He uses a very low viewpoint and places the unusually large figures so that they seem to expand beyond the frame of the picture. The eye is shocked by the white of the woman's skin against the bright scarlet under-kimono, and the transparency of the gauze fabric that covers the couple's entwined legs only heightens the sensuousness. Finally, however, the viewer focuses on the heads and shoulders. The details emphasise the emotion of the moment: the man's eye as he gazes intently at his lover, the tender touch of their delicate fingers and the exquisite nape of the woman's neck. (britishmuseum.org)

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The Boulevard Montmartre at Night Camille Pissarro 1897 The National Gallery, London, UK  

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Boy Bitten by a Lizard Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Caravaggio) c. 1586-1600 Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell’Arte Roberto Longhi, Florence, Italy One of Caravaggio’s biographers wrote that “he also painted a boy bitten by a lizard emerging from flowers and fruits; you could almost hear the boy scream, and it was done meticulously.” The picture has suggested various interpretations. As an allegory of touch, it provides the basis for a study of how emotion is expressed physically, and arguably Caravaggio alludes to all the five senses (flowers as smell and so on). With the still life of fruits and roses, common emblems of love, he invokes age-old adages—pain can follow pleasure, and love is a rose with thorns that prick. Poets from Petrarch onward played on the similarity of the Italian words for “love” and “bitter”—amore and amaro—to which Caravaggio adds ramarro (lizard), ingeniously enlarging the joke.

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Wind from the Sea Andrew Wyeth 1948 Private Collection "It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion." -Andrew Wyeth (andrewwyeth.org)

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Snow in New York Robert Henri 1902 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA 

Robert Henri urged his students in Philadelphia and New York to reject idealism and to focus instead on reality, whether it be banal or harsh. “Draw your material from the life around you, from all of it. There is beauty in everything if it looks beautiful to your eyes. You can find it anywhere, everywhere.”

Henri's Snow in New York depicts ordinary brownstone apartments hemmed in by city blocks of humdrum office buildings. This calm, stable geometry adds to the hush of new-fallen snow. The exact date inscribed—March 5, 1902—implies the canvas was painted in a single session. Its on-the-spot observations and spontaneous sketchiness reveal gray slush in the traffic ruts and yellow mud on the horsecart'’s wheels. (nga.gov)

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The Large Pine, Saint-Tropez Paul Signac c. 1892-93  The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia