{"id":14837,"date":"2025-03-26T19:25:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/?post_type=magazine&#038;p=14837"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T09:58:13","slug":"commedia-arte-luca-beatrice-book","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/commedia-arte-luca-beatrice-book\/","title":{"rendered":"La commedia dell\u2019arte. Luca Beatrice\u2019s posthumous book in the words of Francesco Bonami"},"content":{"rendered":"Luca Beatrice was the Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde of Italian art criticism.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nIn Beatrice Jekyll what came out was the sincerity of knowledge and in Hyde Beatrice what came out was the insincerity of political affiliation. An insincerity that never slipped into falsehood and hypocrisy. Using a term from his passion for football, I would say that Luca called himself \u201cright-wing\u201d simply because the \u201cright\u201d let him play however he wanted, in the role he liked most depending on the day and the opponent.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nIn his latest book <em>La commedia dell\u2019arte<\/em>, Beatrice uses the Jekyll style more than the Hyde one. A radio commentary of the art world not as a hooligan but as a profound and surprisingly up-to-date expert, well beyond regulation time. Of course there is a pinch of Hyde, in part not to disappoint the faithful readers of his articles in <em>Libero<\/em>, and in part not to betray himself.<br \/>\r\n<h2>FRANCESCO BONAMI ON LUCA BEATRICE&#8217;S BOOK<\/h2><br \/>\r\nLuca was not a \u201cdo-gooder\u201d, but he was good and certainly generous. That cocktail of kindness and generosity produced an honest style. He certainly does not agree with many of the directions that contemporary art has taken, but he does not ignore them and analyses them and tells us about them (which is the most important thing) in a very clear and almost innocent manner.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe greatest quality of Beatrice\u2019s writing was that of never letting his own tastes take over his ideas. His are not opinions but a sort of discussion between his Hyde and his Jekyll. The <em>Commedia<\/em> that he lays out for us is funny and profound and this depth protects it from the risk of becoming a farce, a dimension the world of art sometimes enters precisely because the violence of taste gets the better of the naive beauty of ideas.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<strong>Francesco Bonami<\/strong>","protected":false},"featured_media":14829,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categorie_magazine":[343],"class_list":["post-14837","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie_magazine-words-from-marte"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>La commedia dell\u2019arte. 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