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L'arte contemporanea per sovrapposizioni
Copying works of art is a critical exercise that helps to train the eye and to make thoughts concrete. As an art critic and historian, Elio Grazioli argues for this in the most effective way: by putting it into practice. In fact, this “album” gathers together over 50 drawings by him, swift sketches executed with improvised materials during lockdown, using an unusual technique: superimposition.
Two, or sometimes three, works of art, reproduced one on top of the other, form a new image, a canvas for the endless play of cross-references, where the protagonists are artists who are similar or very different, even to the point of clashing. The intuitive graphic intertwinings trigger new possibilities of interpreting iconic modern and contemporary artworks and artists.
So Munch’s silent Scream suddenly seems as threatening and unsettling as a precariously balanced Richard Serra sculpture, and the gaze of one of Gauguin’s Polynesian female nudes evokes the ambiguous mix of magic, eroticism and death in the self-portrait of Nan Goldin with a black eye. We are even witness to a virtual head-to-head between Warhol and Matisse regarding the concept of repetition.
While the reader’s eye and memory are hard put to recognize the original pieces, the author composes an alternative art history made of unimagined alchemies and short circuits, capable of revealing another dimension of vision and unexpected meanings.
Textual index
Introduzione
Édouard Manet / Pablo Picasso
Édouard Manet / Maurizio Nannucci
Claude Monet / Paul Klee
Paul Gauguin / Nan Goldin
Vincent van Gogh / Jan Vermeer
Edvard Munch / Richard Serra
Pablo Picasso / Marcel Duchamp
Henri Matisse / Marcel Duchamp
André Derain / Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia / André Kertész
Paul Strand / Robert Delaunay
Francis Picabia / Maurizio Cattelan
Sonia Delaunay / Kurt Schwitters
Kazimir Malevič / John Cage
Kazimir Malevič / Henri Matisse / Man Ray
Kazimir Malevič / Piet Mondrian / Agnes Martin
Piet Mondrian / Hans Richter
Wassily Kandinsky / Donald Judd
Paul Klee / Max Ernst
Paul Klee / Vincenzo Agnetti
Marcel Duchamp double
Marcel Duchamp / giapponeseria
Giorgio de Chirico / Yasujirō Ozu
Raoul Hausmann / Max Ernst
Salvador Dalí / Francis Picabia
Salvador Dalí / Documents
Joan Miró / graffiti preistorici
Alberto Giacometti / Constantin Brancusi / Marcel Duchamp
René Magritte / Davide Mosconi
Brassaï / Lucio Fontana
Alberto Giacometti / Hans Arp / Cimabue
Henri Matisse / scultura tibetana
Henri Matisse / Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso / Caravaggio
Henri Matisse / Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo
Jean Fautrier / Alberto Giacometti
Antoni Tàpies / Wallace Berman
Jackson Pollock / Hans Arp
Mark Rothko / Barnett Newman / Henri Matisse
Franz Kline / Andy Warhol
Piero Manzoni / Yves Klein
Roy Lichtenstein / Pablo Picasso
Andy Warhol / Henri Matisse
Andy Warhol / Gerhard Richter
Robert Morris / Henri Matisse
Donald Judd / Douglas Huebler
Giulio Paolini / macchie casuali
Robert Smithson / Daniel Buren
Joseph Beuys / Marcel Duchamp
Luca Maria Patella / Robert Gober
Jeff Koons / Tom Friedman
Daniel Buren / doppio Jeff Koons
Franco Vimercati / Andy Warhol
Ange Leccia / Roberto Pellegrinuzzi
Félix González-Torres raddoppiato / Eugène Delacroix
Banksy / Francisco Goya
Édouard Manet / Pablo Picasso
Édouard Manet / Maurizio Nannucci
Claude Monet / Paul Klee
Paul Gauguin / Nan Goldin
Vincent van Gogh / Jan Vermeer
Edvard Munch / Richard Serra
Pablo Picasso / Marcel Duchamp
Henri Matisse / Marcel Duchamp
André Derain / Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia / André Kertész
Paul Strand / Robert Delaunay
Francis Picabia / Maurizio Cattelan
Sonia Delaunay / Kurt Schwitters
Kazimir Malevič / John Cage
Kazimir Malevič / Henri Matisse / Man Ray
Kazimir Malevič / Piet Mondrian / Agnes Martin
Piet Mondrian / Hans Richter
Wassily Kandinsky / Donald Judd
Paul Klee / Max Ernst
Paul Klee / Vincenzo Agnetti
Marcel Duchamp double
Marcel Duchamp / giapponeseria
Giorgio de Chirico / Yasujirō Ozu
Raoul Hausmann / Max Ernst
Salvador Dalí / Francis Picabia
Salvador Dalí / Documents
Joan Miró / graffiti preistorici
Alberto Giacometti / Constantin Brancusi / Marcel Duchamp
René Magritte / Davide Mosconi
Brassaï / Lucio Fontana
Alberto Giacometti / Hans Arp / Cimabue
Henri Matisse / scultura tibetana
Henri Matisse / Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso / Caravaggio
Henri Matisse / Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo
Jean Fautrier / Alberto Giacometti
Antoni Tàpies / Wallace Berman
Jackson Pollock / Hans Arp
Mark Rothko / Barnett Newman / Henri Matisse
Franz Kline / Andy Warhol
Piero Manzoni / Yves Klein
Roy Lichtenstein / Pablo Picasso
Andy Warhol / Henri Matisse
Andy Warhol / Gerhard Richter
Robert Morris / Henri Matisse
Donald Judd / Douglas Huebler
Giulio Paolini / macchie casuali
Robert Smithson / Daniel Buren
Joseph Beuys / Marcel Duchamp
Luca Maria Patella / Robert Gober
Jeff Koons / Tom Friedman
Daniel Buren / doppio Jeff Koons
Franco Vimercati / Andy Warhol
Ange Leccia / Roberto Pellegrinuzzi
Félix González-Torres raddoppiato / Eugène Delacroix
Banksy / Francisco Goya
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