The \u201cAnteprima\u201d series of exhibitions was designed to offer visitors a \u201cpreview\u201d of the activities of individual contemporary artists by presenting a small selection of their work or a single installation, depending on their particular working method.<\/p>\n
The first artist to be invited was Giulio Paolini (Genoa, Italy, 1940), who submitted a project consisting of two works that compare two different concepts of space: the first explores life, which also gives birth to the work itself, and the second explores the metaphysical aspect of representation. To illustrate these ideas, the artist displayed a detail of his own home in Turin on the museum wall, along with a canvas presented in the middle of the room, which was placed against a large frame whose size was identical to that of G\u00e9ricault\u2019s Raft of the Medusa<\/em>.<\/p>\n The conflict that arises between the private, personal space, which guards the inherent truth of a work that can only be known by the author, and the space purposely designated for exhibiting art \u2013 be this a painting or museum \u2013 exposes the inadequacy of the language of art as compared with the expressive potential of the work and its creator. The metaphorical representation of a shipwreck subtly alludes to the \u201ccasting adrift\u201d of artistic language.<\/p>\n [C.O.B.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The \u201cAnteprima\u201d series of exhibitions was designed to offer visitors a \u201cpreview\u201d of the activities of individual contemporary artists by presenting a small selection of their work or a single […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26944,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101123","mostra","type-mostra","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n