The exhibition features works by 18th-century artists - Pier Leone Ghezzi, Sebastiano Ceccarini, Carlo Magini - and contemporary artists - Evgeny Antufiev, Eduardo Arroyo, Matthew Attard, Luigi Bartolini, Joseph Beuys, Marco Cingolani, Michelangelo Consani, Fabrizio Cotognini, Enzo Cucchi, Thomas De Falco, Antony Gormley, Maggi Hambling, Diango Hernández, Leiko Ikemura, Jiri Kolar, Mark Manders, Annette Messager, Fulvio Morella, Roman Opalka, Laura Paoletti, Vettor Pisani, Carol Rama, David Reimondo, Klaus Rinke, Kiki Smith -, together with the museum's prestigious collections, in particular 20th-century authors such as Nanda Vigo, Osvaldo Licini, Aligi Sassu, through an exhibition itinerary that winds its way through all the floors and fascinating rooms of Palazzo Buonaccorsi.
An original artistic encounter from the 18th century, the golden age of Marche portraiture to the Contemporary, which traces the trajectories of the study of how visual perception - of a portrait - is the result of a process of selection, integration and intuition in which, in addition to the visual faculty, the real datum, conscience, affective adhesion, individual memory and moral focus intervene.
Through the selection of works on display, the Macerata Musei exhibition aims to give an account of both the evolution of the artistic genre of the portrait and some of the most important, vivid and sometimes surprising 18th century examples. This also reveals the different possibilities at the time entrusted to the painter himself, to characterise the figure with the surrounding environment, to include elements that recalled the social role and passions of the portrayed subject, as well as the depth of the psychological reading, which often also depended on the level of confidence that bound the artist to the sitter.
Artists: Evgeny Antufiev, Eduardo Arroyo, Matthew Attard, Luigi Bartolini, Joseph Beuys, Sebastiano Ceccarini, Marco Cingolani, Michelangelo Consani, Fabrizio Cotognini, Enzo Cucchi, Thomas De Falco, Pier Leone Ghezzi, Antony Gormley, Maggi Hambling, Diango Hernández, Leiko Ikemura, Jiri Kolar, Osvaldo Licini, Carlo Magini, Mark Manders, Annette Messager, Fulvio Morella, Roman Opalka, Laura Paoletti, Vettor Pisani, Carol Rama, David Reimondo, Klaus Rinke, Aligi Sassu, Kiki Smith, Nanda Vigo
Source: City of Macerata
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