To the Iseo Arsenal Foundation (BS)
a collective of artists from all over Italy interprets
death in a contemporary key.
April 20, 2015 – From 25 April to 24 May in the rooms of the Fondazione l'Arsenale twenty-seven contemporary artists will exhibit their works, giving a poetic, cultural and aesthetic interpretation of the theme Vanitas – Death.
The inspiration for the exhibition was the unusual presence of a fresco depicting a macabre dance from the end of the 15th century on the internal wall of the apse of the Romanesque church of San Silvestro in Iseo, promoted as an asset to be preserved within the "Places of the Heart" census of the FAI - Italian Environment Fund.
“The allegory of Death-Vanitas reaches its greatest development, within the Still Life genre, in the 17th century and maintains similar formal characteristics in the following period” – explains Lidia Muffolini, author of the critical text on the exhibition – “In the contemporary era, the iconographic theme maintains the structures of the past but is loaded with different meanings, as Death, from an antagonist bringing destruction and detachment from material values, becomes a moment of fundamental reflection on life and its decay“.
The exhibition “Beyond Life” is curated by Angelo Zanella, the critical text is signed by Lidia Muffolini.
THE ARTISTS PARTICIPATING IN THE EXHIBITION
Guido Airoldi, Paola Bonomelli, Walmer Bordon, Francesca De Pieri, Andrea Dejana, Stefano Frascarelli, Michel Gambino, Fabio Gismondi, Sergej Glinkow, Marcello Gobbi, Cristina Iotti, Anna Madia, Lorenzo Manenti, Angelo Raffaele Marturano, Armando Moriconi, Paola Nizzoli Desiderato, Francesco Parimbelli, Fabio Presti, Carlo Previtali, Elisa Rossi, Giorgio Tentolini, Vincenzo Todaro, Lello Torchia, Filippo Venezia, Angelo Zanella, Michele Zanni, Bruno Zoppetti.
