War is Over. An exhibition at the MAR in Ravenna investigates how art deals with war.

From October 6, 2018 to January 13, 2019 , the exhibition"War is Over. Art and Conflict between Myth and Contemporaneity."

Curated by Angela Tecce and Maurizio Tarantino, the exhibition intends to explore a burning question, namely how art deals with the theme of war: from battle scenes to the instruments of offense and torture, from the representation of power and the faces of the vanquished, to vitalism and primitivism as a sublimation of the deep impulses that agitate the soul. It intends to emphasize the richness, fluidity, and energy of different but constantly engaged poetics that never forget the obstacles that reality poses to the realization of dreams.

Three themes are developed in the exhibition:"Old and New Myths," on the ideologies that in the past as well as today have often been the basis of conflicts, or the mythologies that have resulted from them;"Theaters of War. Frontiers and Borders," which returns the artists’ reinterpretation of war images; and finally“Exercises in Freedom,” or what art can tell us about our future as a space for creativity.

The artists in the exhibition are Marina Abramovic, Marisa Albanese, Francis AlYs, Alighiero Boetti, Maria Pia Borgnini, Botto & Bruno, Alberto Burri, Davide Cantoni, Robert Capa, Jota Castro, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Christo, Alessandra Cianelli, Giorgio De Chirico, Jan Fabre, Lucio Fontana, Regina José Galindo, Gilbert & George, Eugenio Giliberti, Paolo Grassino, Renato Guttuso, Thomas Hirschhorn, Emilio Isgrò, Alfredo Jaar, Francesco Jodice, William Kentridge, Anselm Kiefer, Jannis Kounellis, Domenico Antonio Mancini, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Ana Mendieta, Sabrina Mezzaqui, Marzia Migliora, Gian Marco Montesano, Shirin Neshat, Hermann Nitsch, Nam June Paik, Mimmo Paladino, Pino Pascali, Perino & Vele, Pablo Picasso, Lamberto Pignotti, Vettor Pisani, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Robert Rauschenberg, Melita Rotondo, Michal Rovner, Pieter Paul Rubens, Pietro Ruffo, Salvo, Mario Schifano, Andres Serrano, Wael Shawky, Shozo Shimamoto, Studio Azzurro, Tato, Eugenio Tibaldi, Vedovamazzei, Antonio Vivarini, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner.

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Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Tickets: Full 10 euros, reduced 8 euros.

Image: Paolo Grassino, Praise to TT (2005-2006; PVC foamed on Nylon, sinectic sponge on polysponge and phero; 300x600 cm; 237x280x165 cm, Garuzzo Collection)

War is Over. An exhibition at the MAR in Ravenna investigates how art deals with war.

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