An exhibition at Casa Buonarroti for the 450th anniversary
Michelangelo, a master for 20th century arts and architecture
Le Corbusier, Disegni di studio da Michelangelo, dal “Carnet del viaggio in Oriente” (facsimili), 1907-1911, Parigi, Fondation Le Corbusier
E. Bramati
15/06/2014
Florence - "Michelangelo and the Twentieth Century" inaugurates in the Casa Buonarroti in Florence on Tuesday, June 17th at 18.00. This is the Florentine section of the exhibition promoted by the Fondazione Casa Buonarroti and the Galleria Civica di Modena, on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the death of the artist.
While the Modena location hosts the most recent results of the influence exerted by Michelangelo on contemporary artists until present days, Casa Buonarroti gathered works from the early 20th century to the 70s, alongside extraordinary drawings by Michelangelo.
Thanks to a partnership with the Modena galley, the Library of Technological Sciences - University of Florence and other prestigious universities, including Harvard, the display aims to explore some specific aspects revolving around the pivotal theme of the exhibition: the relationship between Michelangelo and the visual arts, design and architecture of the last century.
A large number of works, as well as documentary and photographic material, presents the dialogue between these disciplines and the master, highlighting the gradual abandonment of the rhetoric flourished around him until the 40s, led by a heroic titanism, and the role that Buonarroti embodied within the policies of reconstruction, until the centenary of the Unification of Italy.
Some of the artists, architects and designers chosen to represent the legacy of Michelangelo in the 20th century, are Alberto Giacometti, Renato Guttuso, Vassily Kandinsky, Le Corbusier, Henry Matisse, Eduardo Paolozzi, Gio Ponti, Aldo Rossi, Francesco Somaini, Giuseppe Terragni and Bruno Zevi.
While the Modena location hosts the most recent results of the influence exerted by Michelangelo on contemporary artists until present days, Casa Buonarroti gathered works from the early 20th century to the 70s, alongside extraordinary drawings by Michelangelo.
Thanks to a partnership with the Modena galley, the Library of Technological Sciences - University of Florence and other prestigious universities, including Harvard, the display aims to explore some specific aspects revolving around the pivotal theme of the exhibition: the relationship between Michelangelo and the visual arts, design and architecture of the last century.
A large number of works, as well as documentary and photographic material, presents the dialogue between these disciplines and the master, highlighting the gradual abandonment of the rhetoric flourished around him until the 40s, led by a heroic titanism, and the role that Buonarroti embodied within the policies of reconstruction, until the centenary of the Unification of Italy.
Some of the artists, architects and designers chosen to represent the legacy of Michelangelo in the 20th century, are Alberto Giacometti, Renato Guttuso, Vassily Kandinsky, Le Corbusier, Henry Matisse, Eduardo Paolozzi, Gio Ponti, Aldo Rossi, Francesco Somaini, Giuseppe Terragni and Bruno Zevi.
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