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BERTOZZI & CASONI - The Lies of Art
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Project    | Comprising three monumental vanitas vanitatum, ‘The Lies of Art’ is a large-scale project involving the artistic partnership of Giampaolo Bertozzi/ Stefano Casoni and the Musei Civici Veneziani. It is housed in Ca’ Pesaro - International Gallery of Modern Art in concomitance with the 52nd Biennale of the Visual Arts. The exhibition, curated by Maurizio Caldirola with Daniele Sorrentino - admission is included with the price of the Museum ticket (same visiting hours) - consists of three site-specific works and explores the anti-monumental and the illusory. A powerful bear rests of a base that is about to turn to liquid; a great machine serves to produce nothing; a large, long-nosed gold skull of Pinocchio stands as a perfect symbol of the lies of art. As always with Bertozzi&Casoni, these works are in ceramic. They offer a good example of the repertoire of images explored by the artists: utilitarian objects, elements of the natural world, life-like images of animals and the certain ‘icons’ from the world of art which now appear as rejects, as cast-offs. Reproduced in the medium of ceramics, these objects trigger what might be called an aesthetic short-circuit, given that they are open to a number of readings and interpretations. In this project, Bertozzi&Casoni explore the deconstruction and negation of the monumentality of form and concept that has become a constant feature of contemporary visual arts. Whilst undercutting this fashionable tendency towards the monumental, towards authoritative forms, the artists are aware that they are themselves striving to affirm their own proud, authoritative status; it is what happens when someone smiles and, at the same time, bears their teeth. This ambiguity reveals a certain unconscious lie in art: everything must change so that nothing changes, thus paradoxically confirming the universally cyclical nature of aesthetic exploration. The language and forms of this new monumentality belong to a long-established and inexhaustible repertoire, which is here re-appropriated, re-interpreted and reproduced in order to re-contextualise it within the contemporary world. |
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Musei Civici
Venezia
Musei Civici
Venezia