Undated. Luca Pignatelli's solo exhibition coming to the Bardini Museum.

Senza Data (No Date), this is the title of the exhibition that will be on display from January 26 to March 25, 2019 at the Bardini Museum in Florence: this is Luca Pignatelli ’s (Milan, 1962) solo show curated by Sergio Risaliti, promoted by the City of Florence and organized by MUS.E in collaboration with the Poggiali Gallery in Florence.

The exhibition testifies to the repeated crossing of historical time made by his art in the opposite direction from those who cite the past with academic nostalgia: a series of works on railway tarpaulin, wood, paper and sheet metal will be exhibited in the rooms of the Bardini Museum, along with large paintings made on Persian carpets from the early 20th century. The latter will be juxtaposed with the museum’s own vast and significant collection of carpets from the 15th century to the present. In addition, a new series of works on paper will be presented in a site-specific installation involving the frames and furnishings of the museum’s collection.

Pignatelli himself said, “My research in recent years is a rethinking what time is in relation to the image, to paintings. I believe that today it is important to place the image at the center of a reflection on memory, and the Bardini museum is a symbol in the world of what a collection capable of representing a stratification of times but also of cultures means. With this exhibition I would like to answer the question: what stands in front of an image? For me it is a plural time, a montage of temporalities, staggered and therefore different.”

The artist’s works are images of a living, present classicism, and the figures represented live a time that is repeated identical to their original, they immediately enter into communication with our changing being, becoming. One gets the impression that Pignatelli knows how to take images from iconographic repertoires to isolate icons, figures that have the force of true archetypes of the collective unconscious, which have deposited themselves not only in our visual memory, but in our feelings, in our emotions.

The artistic director of the Museo Novecento and curator of the exhibition, Sergio Risaliti, said, “With Luca Pignatelli’s works it happens that historical time and art time resurrect to the gaze as present time, a layering of memories that let emerge a feeling of unbridgeable eternity that nevertheless reproduces itself every time with the appearance-appropriation of classical forms and proportions: a whole statue, a bust, an architecture, a fragment The Bardini Museum is the ideal place for this kind of revelation that is an experience of beauty and temporality at the same time, at the same moment. And this exhibition is also a step forward in redefining the identity and function of the Museo Novecento, relocated beyond its original location.”

Pignatelli’s works will dialogue with the collections of the Bardini Museum: the so-called “Bardini blue” will serve as a backdrop for the various artifacts. The museum holds masterpieces such as Tino da Camaino’s Charity, Donatello’s Madonna of the Apple and Madonna of the Ropes, as well as paintings of extraordinary quality such as Bernardo Daddi’s monumental Painted Crucifix, Pollaiolo’s Saint Michael Archangel, Giovanni da San Giovanni’s Night with Aurora and a Cupid, Guercino ’sAtlas, and a series of drawings by the Tiepolos, Giambattista and his sons Lorenzo and Domenico, and Piazzetta.

For info: http://museicivicifiorentini.comune.fi.it

Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Tickets: Full 7 euros, reduced 5.50 euros for 18-25 year olds.

Image: Luca Pignatelli, Persepolis (2017; mixed media on Persian carpet, 396 x 313 cm)

Undated. Luca Pignatelli's solo exhibition coming to the Bardini Museum.

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