Verona, Mazur's engravings of Dante's Inferno return to exhibition after 20 years at Castelvecchio

Twenty years ago American artist Michael Mazur, among the most celebrated engravers of the 20th century, brought his interpretation of Dante’sInferno to the halls of the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona. From March 6 to October 3, 2021, on the occasion of the seven-hundredth anniversary of the poet’s death, Mazur’sInferno returns to Castelvecchio in a monographic exhibition where it will be possible to admire the forty-two works that the artist himself, after that first exhibition, chose to donate to the Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe of the Museo di Castelvecchio.

The artist describes in the first person the journey into Dante’s Inferno, rather than using the usual depiction of Dante and Virgil through the circles. It is a “chilling and indelible” interpretation that compares medieval imagery with contemporary interpretation. The artist made his etchings using the monotype and etching technique, revisiting a repertoire of themes that is strongly tied to tradition and on which many artists have grappled over the centuries.

As early as the 1990s Mazur produced a series of monotypes to illustrate the new English translation of the Divine Comedy completed by Robert Pinsky. In the exhibition, the works on display will be flanked by excerpts from Pinsky’s own English translation of Dante’sInferno.

The exhibition is curated by Francesca Rossi, Daniela Brunelli, Donatella Boni.

Verona, Mazur's engravings of Dante's Inferno return to exhibition after 20 years at Castelvecchio

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