MIlano, 3 Apr. (askanews) – With the exhibition Art CrimesAngelo Accardi It is measured with one of the masterpieces of the history of western art: the preparatory cardboard of the school of Athens of Raffaello. From Plato to Duchamp, from Aristotle to Dalì, from Raffaello to Cattelan: 500 years of art and mysteries that Accardi, one of the greatest exponents of the Surrealism popleads to Veneranda Ambrosiana Library of Milan.
Art Crimes at the Ambrosiana Library in Milan
«The exhibition was born a year ago when I saw the preparatory cardboard of the Athens of Raffaello school for the first time. It is there that the spark was struck and I thought I had to produce my cardboard within my possible and on tiptoe, “explained Angelo Accardi.
A visual source code, preserved in one of the temples of Italian culture, which becomes a starting point for a contemporary investigation on the concept of originality and appropriation. “I thought I had to steal the cardboard in Raffaello and then create my own cardboard by inserting characters that belong to me, which belong to my contemporary making a merger until they create a work that gravitates in an atmosphere between reality and fiction” added the artist.
Installations, canvases, sculptures and videos for a game of roles and thefts of art in the footsteps of Raffaello. “The artists have always inspired those who preceded them and have created a chain long centuries made of looting and reinventions. Picasso said: the genes steal. The art is stealing and reinventing, certainly not copying” continues Accardi.
The role of artificial intelligence
In art today artificial intelligence also breaks out. From Accardi a warning: “In my opinion it is the thief, the largest thief of all time, has stolen information far and wide. I see this artificial intelligence as a large monster, a large monster from which we have to defend ourselves and I inserted it in this composition in the form of an ostrich which is my icon, however, giving it a slightly more monster shape”.
Art Crimes presents itself as a visual investigation into the intellectual theft in art. “The path is obviously dictated by the pop style of the artist Accardi, who is a surrealism pop, firmly has his feet in the contemporary, even looking at the past, with a non -nostalgic eye but of revaluation of a past that always goes on, contemporary iconographic pollution, where their source codes are lost” concludes the curator of the exhibition Nino Florenzano
Where and until
The exhibition is open to the public from 3 to 28 April in the Hall of the Roman Forum, of the Veneranda Ambrosiana Library. The furnishing accessories and fabrics are signed by Luby, excellence of Italian crafts since 1976, and by the Danish Gabriel Group.
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