Corpus Domini: Dal corpo glorioso alle rovine dell’anima/Corpus Domini: From the Glorified Body to the Ruins of the Soul
Corpus Domini: Dal corpo glorioso alle rovine dell’anima/Corpus Domini: From the Glorified Body to the Ruins of the Soul
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Corpus Domini: Dal corpo glorioso alle rovine dell’anima/Corpus Domini: From the Glorified Body to the Ruins of the Soul
W034070 | $40.00 / 10% library disc.
Exhibition Catalog
Ed. by Francesca Alfano Miglietti. Palazzo Reale. Milan, 2021.
272 pp. Well illustrated (chiefly col.). 30 x 24 cm. Bilingual in English and Italian. Paperbound.
ISBN 9788829713950
The catalog and the exhibition, originally born from the dialogue of the curator Francesca Alfano Miglietti with the art historian and militant critic Lea Vergine, offer a reflection on the rise in the contemporary world of new forms of representation, focusing on the historical passage from the living body protagonist of Body Art to the redone body of Hyperrealism, reflecting on the change in the aesthetic canons of representation and on the powerful evocation of the individual through his remains, his traces, its coatings. The title refers to the disappearance of the 'real body' in favor of the 'show body'. From a Glorious Body - the body of awareness, of rebellion, of otherness - to the Body of the Contemporary, understood in its declination as the body of the society of the spectacle and in its most poetic forms: the body of the exodus, of work, of the multitude silent. Here are therefore perfect bodies, modified, rethought, produced and reproduced and essentially fake on the one hand; on the other hand, real but imperfect bodies, not responding to the aesthetic standards in force which, deprived of access to the image, become invisible. Through installations, sculptures, drawings, video installations and photographs, the reader will immerse himself in a multifaceted journey, composed of 111 works by 34 internationally recognized artists - some of which are true contemporary icons, exhibited for the first time in Italy, to tell the multiplicity of the representation of the human being. From the works of historical hyperrealists, such as Duane Hanson, John DeAndrea and Carole A. Feuerman, artists who have investigated the hyperreality of the representation of contemporary being, we arrive at other narrative typologies, where the body is evoked rather than represented. In the works of recently deceased Christian Boltanski, Ibrahim Mahama, Chiharu Shiota, Dayanita Singh, Charles LeDray, the body seems to have vanished leaving only traces of its having been there. The fragments of the body, and its mutation, as well as the changing social conditions, are present in the works of Oscar Muñoz, AES + F, Yael Bartana,
Subject Headings: International ; Western Art -- Post-1945 ; Post-1970 ; Post-1990 ; Post-2000 -- Several Fine Arts Media (Western) --
W034070 | $40.00 / 10% library disc.
Exhibition Catalog
Ed. by Francesca Alfano Miglietti. Palazzo Reale. Milan, 2021.
272 pp. Well illustrated (chiefly col.). 30 x 24 cm. Bilingual in English and Italian. Paperbound.
ISBN 9788829713950
The catalog and the exhibition, originally born from the dialogue of the curator Francesca Alfano Miglietti with the art historian and militant critic Lea Vergine, offer a reflection on the rise in the contemporary world of new forms of representation, focusing on the historical passage from the living body protagonist of Body Art to the redone body of Hyperrealism, reflecting on the change in the aesthetic canons of representation and on the powerful evocation of the individual through his remains, his traces, its coatings. The title refers to the disappearance of the 'real body' in favor of the 'show body'. From a Glorious Body - the body of awareness, of rebellion, of otherness - to the Body of the Contemporary, understood in its declination as the body of the society of the spectacle and in its most poetic forms: the body of the exodus, of work, of the multitude silent. Here are therefore perfect bodies, modified, rethought, produced and reproduced and essentially fake on the one hand; on the other hand, real but imperfect bodies, not responding to the aesthetic standards in force which, deprived of access to the image, become invisible. Through installations, sculptures, drawings, video installations and photographs, the reader will immerse himself in a multifaceted journey, composed of 111 works by 34 internationally recognized artists - some of which are true contemporary icons, exhibited for the first time in Italy, to tell the multiplicity of the representation of the human being. From the works of historical hyperrealists, such as Duane Hanson, John DeAndrea and Carole A. Feuerman, artists who have investigated the hyperreality of the representation of contemporary being, we arrive at other narrative typologies, where the body is evoked rather than represented. In the works of recently deceased Christian Boltanski, Ibrahim Mahama, Chiharu Shiota, Dayanita Singh, Charles LeDray, the body seems to have vanished leaving only traces of its having been there. The fragments of the body, and its mutation, as well as the changing social conditions, are present in the works of Oscar Muñoz, AES + F, Yael Bartana,
Subject Headings: International ; Western Art -- Post-1945 ; Post-1970 ; Post-1990 ; Post-2000 -- Several Fine Arts Media (Western) --
