Jacopo Tintoretto
DIALOGHI CONTEMPORANEI CON TINTORETTO
Zuecca Projects
presents
CONTEMPORARY DIALOGUES WITH TINTORETTO
Curated by Ludovico Pratesi
October 20, 2018 - January 07, 2019
Venues:
Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’ d’Oro
Calle del Magazzen 3932, Cannaregio, Venice
Palazzo Ducale
Piazza San Marco 1, Venice
Artists:
Michael Borremans
Glenn Brown
Roberto Cuoghi
John Currin
Chantal Joffe
Victor Man
Yan Pei-Ming
Matthew Monahan
Wangechi Mutu
Celia Paul
Markus Schinwald
Josh Smith
Emilio Vedova
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Info and RSVP:
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CONTEMPORARY DIALOGUES WITH TINTORETTO
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, Zuecca Projects present “Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto”.
The exhibition, curated by Ludovico Pratesi andhosted 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.
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.
“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.
The artworks by international artists of the last generations invited to "Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto", offer a constellation 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. 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.”
Ludovico Pratesi
Special thanks for the precious artworks to: Collezione Giuseppe Iannaccone, Gagosian Gallery, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Victoria Miro Gallery.
Press Preview: October 19, 2018, 11.00 AM, at Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’ d’Oro.
Private Opening: October 19, 2018, 06.00 PM, at Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’ d’Oro. RSVP essential.
Public Opening: October 20, 2018.