art
Painting - Sculpture
The Painting of Modern Life
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli
from 04.02.2008 to 04.05.2008
The international evolution of painting in the last forty-five years has been deeply influenced by the use of photography. The exhibition The Painting of Modern Life. Dipingere la vita moderna, organized by Ralph Rugoff (director of Hayward Gallery / Southbank Centre in London) aims at investigating the translation from photograph into painting, through a selection of 150 works by over twenty European, American and Asian artists, from the 1960’s up to now. The exhibition starts with the essential works inspired by photographs taken in the ‘60s by Gerhard Richter, Vija Celmins, Malcolm Morley and Michelangelo Pistoletto. Among the other artists: Franz Gertsch, Elizabeth Peyton and Andy Warhol. At the basis of the exhibition there is a reflection on how a picture can change when it is translated from one language into another one (from photograph into painting).
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