Icônes
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2023
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Catalogues
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ENG
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ISBN 9791254630860
After Bruce Nauman’s Contrapposto Studies, Punta della Dogana presents, in keeping with its tradition of alternating solo and group shows, an exhibition entitled Icônes, consisting almost entirely of works from the Pinault Collection. This choice of theme, for an exhibition taking place in Venice, seemed obvious—no other city in the Western world has maintained such a close relationship with the Byzantine East, the birth place of the icon.
Even after the aesthetics of the Renaissance prevailed, Venice never forgot this connection, as illustrated, among others, in Giovanni Bellini’s Madonnas. But what does the term “icon” mean today, in the twenty-first century, when its religious reference has been forgotten, or even denied? This exhibition shows how, in diverse plastic proposals, contemporary artists have rediscovered, in their own way, the challenges faced by the icon painters of old: how to represent or embody, in our world saturated with images, what is by nature of the order of the unrepresentable, the invisible. Each of the artists included take up this challenge from the vantage point of their own life experience and culture. Whether the works are luminous or dark, silent or sonorous, theatrical or austere, the exhibition invites the visitor to pause in front of each of them, to look beyond their material appearance, in particular in the case of the“chapels” of Robert Ryman, Roman Opałka, and Lee Ufan, complemented by the vibrant radiance of installations by Lygia Pape and Joseph Kosuth.
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