On the occasion of the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jacopo Tintoretto the Polo museale del Veneto, the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and Zuecca Projects present “Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto” through January 7, 2019.
Image: Galleria Georgio Franchetti alla Ca' D'Oro, “Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto”, photo Kostiantyn Gavrykov
On the occasion of the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jacopo Tintoretto, to highlight the modernity and innovative power of his painting, the Polo museale del Veneto, the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and Zuecca Projects present “Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto”.
Galleria Georgio Franchetti alla Ca' D'Oro, “Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto”, photo Kostiantyn Gavrykov
The exhibition, curated by Ludovico Pratesi and hosted from October 20, 2018 to January 07, 2019, is focused on the dialogues between Tintoretto’s masterpieces preserved at Palazzo Ducale and Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’ d’Oro, with the artworks by leading contemporary artists influenced, for attitude and style, by the Master.
Galleria Georgio Franchetti alla Ca' D'Oro, “Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto”, photo Kostiantyn Gavrykov
The exhibition is conceived as an itinerary among the different venues, and it includes two thematic sections, “Faces” and “Stories”, related to the subjects of the artworks.
Galleria Georgio Franchetti alla Ca' D'Oro, “Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto”, photo Kostiantyn Gavrykov
“What does it mean to paint today? What conceptual and stylistic issues are faced by painters with different and distant cultural traditions? How the representation of the human face is defined to underline the most significant elements of expressions, in an anthropological, symbolic or social sense?
As Jean Paul Sartre wrote “Tintoretto is Venice even if he does not paint Venice“, with a will of psychological introspection that makes the painter’s characters extremely modern, able to stimulate a reflection on the evolution of the contemporary portrait, from a descriptive act to an interpretation of the depicted character.
Galleria Georgio Franchetti alla Ca' D'Oro, “Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto”, photo Kostiantyn Gavrykov
The artworks by international artists of the last generations invited to “Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto”, offer a constellation of images that are disquieting or monumental, traditional or irreverent, to outline an overview of different portraits in a stimulating and surprising dialogue with the paintings by Tintoretto.
Galleria Georgio Franchetti alla Ca' D'Oro, “Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto”, photo Kostiantyn Gavrykov
From the master Emilio Vedova, who had a privileged relationship with Tintoretto since his youth, to American artists like Matthew Monahan or Josh Smith, the exhibition is an opportunity to think about the extreme modernity of Tintoretto, who is still able to dialogue with the most successful painters of the contemporary art scene.”
Galleria Georgio Franchetti alla Ca' D'Oro, Venezia
Through 7 January, 2020
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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