Rovereto, 3 Nov. (askanews) – From references to classical mythology to the upcoming Winter Olympics: The Mart of Rovereto inaugurated a major exhibition dedicated to sport, with the significant title of “The challenges of the body”curated by the director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris Antonio Calbi together with Daniela Ferrari from the Trentino museum, who introduced us to the atmosphere of the exhibition project.
“It is a journey lasting two millennia – he told us – in search of the works that have represented sport, the exploits of male and female athletes, trying to highlight the strength, the power, the effort of the athletic gesture, the transformations that the body undergoes. After all, the athlete is as if he were the sculptor of his own body, he models it during all the effort which naturally leads to continuous training, until arriving at shapes that may seem perfect to us, may even resemble those of the ancient gods, heroes, athletes who were represented in ancient times”.
Divided into eight thematic sections, the itinerary hosts 350 works, objects, memorabilia and documents. The suggestions are many and we find Muybridge and Boccioni, Studio Azzurro, Marzia Miglior, Bartali and Coppi, but also Grazia Toderi, perhaps passing through Dudovich, Pasolini, Mapplethorpe and Carla Fracci. And as a symbolic image, a photograph by Fabrizio Ferri was chosen, who at the end of the nineties changed the way of representing athletes.
“I proposed take these athletes to the desert – the photographer explained to us – therefore decontextualize sport, removed from the arenas, removed from the stadiums, removed from the stages, from the publicfrom all this and therefore this desert in some way, in addition to having this magical light, it is also a bit of an emancipation from time”.
Iconography and gesture, dance and political bodies, reasoning on the meaning of limits and the possibilities of crossing them: the Mart exhibition opens up space for many reflections and many ways of looking at the body. As well as many ways of thinking about art when it is directly related to our life.
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