At the Mart in Rovereto, an exhibition for an adult audience on the heretics of the arts

Until February 19, 2023, the Mart in Rovereto presents the exhibition Heretics. Art and Life, from an idea by Vittorio Sgarbi, curated by Denis Isaia. This is the second chapter of a trilogy that the Trentino museum is dedicating tocontemporary heresy: the first stage had presented last summer Heretical Heresies and Erotomaniacs, while the third stage dedicated to design will be open next spring.

Recommended for an adult audience, the exhibition Heretics. Art and Life features men and women of the 20th and 21st centuries who pursued freedom of thought even if they disagreed with common feeling. Nonconformists, rebels, provocateurs, desecrators, obstinate and intolerant of rules, they often paid for their positions with criticism, exclusion, isolation and even, in extreme cases, with their own lives. What can heretical languages be today and what are their manifestations? This is what the exhibition intends to investigate, in search of linguistic limits, challenged mainly through images; the exhibition is irreverent, sometimes scandalous, it does not censor pornography, nor the horrific, it also deconstructs religious references, established practices and comfortable positions.

Divided into thematic areas, the exhibition presentsheretical acting in television, film, visual art, literature, and music. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mattia Moreni, Alda Merini, Carmelo Bene, Giovanni Testori, Nan Goldin, ORLAN, and Anagoor are just some of the artists, intellectuals, writers, and musicians who populate the exhibition project. Selected by the curator together with a group of well-known scholars, these heretics are people who by going against the tide have been hindered, marginalized and sometimes expelled from the social system.

For Heretics. Art and Life the Mart relied on the scientific contribution of Fabio Canessa, Andrea del Guercio, Stefano Di Trapani, Duccio Dogheria, Concetta Leto, Brizia Minerva, Daniela Rosi, Stefano Sbarbaro, and Simona Zecchi.

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Image: Giannetto Fieschi, From the top of the gallows Antonio Lorenzo Lavoisier demonstrates and proclaims the indestructibility of matter (1964; mixed media on masonite, 390 x 525 cm; Property Giannetto Fieschi Archive). Blackbird Photography

At the Mart in Rovereto, an exhibition for an adult audience on the heretics of the arts

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