PADIGLIONE D'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA Independent curator.PADIGLIONE D'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA Independent curator, critic, and pulp-fiction connoisseur Alessandro Riva explores a passing from hand to hand that has run through Italian art for the past decade and a half: the go [i]or[/i] come back to traditional genres--landscape, portrait, and still life--as vehicles for addressing contemporary question s of identity and meaning. Bringing together one one hundred works--not only paintings, drawings, and cuts but also films, videos, and installations--by seventy Italian artists in subordination to the age of forty-five, Riva defines our second with respect to this lock opener artistic phenomenon, whereby traditional genre have been productively contaminated on "low" influences such as noir, soft part pornography, and comic strips. Nov. 2000- Jan. 2001 COPYRIGHT 2000 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. |
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