Encounter and Embrace. In Padua, an exhibition against closure and indifference

At the Palazzo del Monte di Pietà in Padua, theexhibition Encounter and Embrace in Twentieth-Century Sculpture from Rodin to Mitoraj, curated by Alfonso Pluchinotta in collaboration with Maria Beatrice Autizi, will be on view from Nov. 16, 2019 to Jan. 12, 2020.

Through 120 twentieth-century sculptures created by great artists such as Auguste Rodin, Vincenzo Gemito, Arturo Martini, Pietro Canonica, Jacques Lipchitz, Agenore Fabbri, Virgilio Guidi, Luciano Minguzzi, Fernad Legèr, Henry Moore, Marcel Duchamp, George Segal, Salvator Dalì, Lorenzo Quinn, Igor Mitoraj, the exhibition aims to offer a vision of man as open and positive as opposed to closures, indifference or disengagement, emphasizing the expectations of people who ask for a gesture, a word, a glance.

The exhibition is built on themes such as life’s journey, formation, encounter, relationship, distance, waiting, and compassion.

The multi-dimensional human figure in particular provokes various observations, invites reflection on life and its fragilities. “We are de-educating ourselves to three-dimensionality, to touch, to the duration that generates representation, thus warning us of the risk of becoming hasty observers, less able to grasp the dispositions of the soul and affectivity,” Alfonso Pluchinotta commented.

“Among artistic expressions, sculpture is the one that can best represent human issues, because of its three-dimensionality and the relationship of bodies and forms in space: that intimate space of matter that narrates the body, transforming it into form and place of happenings in the most diverse modulations, now harmonious in a classical composure, now emphasizing the movement with which the matter narrates itself, now urging the surfaces with impressionist tones, or folding into lyrical, or symbolist, or metaphysical narratives,” added Maria Beatrice Autizi.

The exhibition is sponsored by Fondazione Salus Pueri, a non-profit organization created in 1992 in Padua to make the Pediatrics of the local polyclinic increasingly “home.”

For info: www.incontroabbraccio.it

Hours: Daily from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Closed Mondays.
Free admission, except a free donation to support the activities of the Salus Pueri Foundation.

Image: Jacques Lipchitz, Two Seated Figures (ca. 1945; dark patina bronze; Miano, Colombo Collection)

Encounter and Embrace. In Padua, an exhibition against closure and indifference

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