Equal Unequal: in Carrara, contemporary art dialogues with neoclassical and romantic masters

Opening to the public in Carrara, at Palazzo Binelli - Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Carrara, is the contemporary art group exhibition entitled Uguali Disuguali, which will be open from October 27, 2018 until December 14, 2018. It is a project by Nicola Ricci in collaboration with Gilberto Pellizzola and features nineteen contemporary Italian and international artists at the headquarters of the historic Carrara institution, including several big names of the current scene: Bertozzi & Casoni, Nicola Carrino, Antonio Catelani, CCH, Michele Chiossi, Vittorio Corsini, Federico Fusj, Maschac Gaba, Luigi Mainolfi, Luciano Massari, Athos Ongaro, Luigi Ontani, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Andrea Santarlasci, Santiago Sierra, Ettore Spalletti, Antonio Trotta, Giuseppe Uncini, and Yi Zhou.

The particularity of the exhibition lies in the fact that the Palazzo Binelli venue houses a very important collection of neoclassical and Romantic plaster casts, with masterpieces by great masters who worked in the late 18th and early 19th centuries (from Wilhelm Bissen to Benedetto Cacciatori), and the staging of Equal Unequal, which unfolds in the very rooms of Palazzo Binelli’s sculpture collection, intends to make manifest the agreements and disagreements, the resonances and dissonances (hence the title of the exhibition) between neoclassical and nineteenth-century works and those that instead reflect today’s world. The mix conceived by Ricci and Pellizzola thus offers the public a roundup that, starting withArte Povera, arrives at the most recent conceptual art to convey the idea that art is nothing more than a way to “reshape” the world.

The exhibition is all about sculpture, both “in terms of the object,” as the presentation states, and as “theoretical elaboration and drawing, whether design or in declared autonomy of research.”

Equal Unequal can be visited Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 6 p.m. Admission is free. For information you can visit the Facebook page dedicated to the event.

In the photo: a room of the exhibition.

Equal Unequal: in Carrara, contemporary art dialogues with neoclassical and romantic masters

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