At the Chiostro del Bramante, contemporary art recounts emotions

Until April 1, 2024, the Chiostro del Bramante is hosting the exhibition EMOTION. Contemporary art narrates emotions, curated by Danilo Eccher. Surprise, confusion, desire, joy, fear, anticipation, anxiety, happiness, pride, excitement, nostalgia, admiration, relief, tranquility, embarrassment. EMOTION aims to take the audience, through more than twenty works, many of them site-specific, created by more than twenty artists, on a journey into emotions. How many emotions inspire an artist? And how many are retained within the work? And which ones does a viewer feel in front of that work? And how many are retained over time and how many change and how do they change?

The journey begins with a ten-foot-tall mushroom: it is Carsten Höller’s mushroom. It continues with the astonishment of standing in front of Luigi Mainolfi’s tall figures in the outer cloister, walking on an ocean floor; in the bewilderment of Piero Pizzi Cannella ’s imaginary cathedrals and the wonder of his Raphael-inspired Camera Picta; with theenchantment of the light and sound refractions of the aurora borealis recreated by Alessandro Sciaraffa’s interactive work; with the attraction to the haunted forest of Masbedo ’s (Nicolò Massazza and Iacopo Bedogni) video installation or the hypnotic and concentric attraction of Paolo Scirpa’s neon ludoscopes.

And then the environment of Gregor Schneider, the universe of colors of the decomposable prisms of Korean artist Kimsooja, the dreamlike microcosm of possible and impossible visions of Tony Oursler, the great figures of superheroes rethought by Adrian Tranquilli until the site-specific project of Nedko Solakov that brings back to the dimension of storytelling in a witty, sometimes ironic key.

What if the ceiling, floor and walls were enveloped in a forest of brambles and dragonflies by Pietro Ruffo, what emotion would one feel? What if one could walk among Luigi Ontani’s Erme? What if Laure Prouvost ’s intent with her video installation and large mechanical chandelier was to make one feel a heavenly ecstasy? And what curiosity moves the visitor to explore, investigate and try to discover in Matt Collishaw ’s still lifes, created also thanks to artificial intelligence, the most hidden meanings?

Eva Jospin places her emotions inside cardboard landscapes and architecture; Annette Messager drops them from the ceiling, dedicating them to the human body, through photographs inside fishing nets, colorful shapes and a large Pinocchio; the AES + F collective in what it calls “social psychoanalysis”; Subodh Gupta uses objects to evoke memories; and Paul Morrison, thanks to his neo-romantic and pop-naturalist drawings, leads into unexpected landscapes and emotions.

According to the curator, having surpassed the traditional method of exhibiting, it is necessary to create pathways in which the audience is called upon not only to look but to immerse themselves, having ever different and better readings with a broader involvement in terms of quality and quantity."EMOTION is a dense and unexpected dialogue between truth and appearance, it is the sign of a confrontation guided by surprise and emotion," he concludes.

“At a time like the one we live in where everything goes fast, where everything is consumed with rapidity, this exhibition dedicated to feelings we would like it to be an opportunity to be amazed and moved, to rejoice but also a little to be embarrassed, to feel proud, to feel fear but also tranquility, to be nostalgic but also psychedelic and then return to happiness and peace,” said Natalia de Marco, DART Chiostro del Bramante director. “A journey thanks to art and artists, to get in touch with the many emotions that allow us to feel, to understand, to be. A necessary TAKE YOUR TIME to make EMOTION live, even outside the Chiostro.”

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At the Chiostro del Bramante, contemporary art recounts emotions

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