This year\u2019s season of art at the Palazzo Cini Gallery begins with Afterglow:\u00a0Pictures of Ruins, an exhibition of works by the celebrated contemporary\u00a0artist and photographer Vik Muniz, curated by the Institute of Art
\nHistory director, Luca Massimo Barbero.
\nStaged in collaboration with Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, the exhibition\u00a0features photographs and a glass sculpture produced by the artist\u00a0in a process involving the re-elaboration in a personal key of familiar\u00a0works in the collective imagination. In this case he has been inspired by\u00a0paintings in the great Venice lagoon tradition, and he has reinterpreted\u00a0works actually shown at San Vio during the 2016 exhibition entitled\u00a0Rediscovered Masterpieces from the Vittorio Cini Collection, as well as some\u00a0works permanently on show in the historic collection. He will thus also forge a link between\u00a0the first and the second floors in the gallery. Muniz simulates the brushstrokes of the celebrated\u00a0paintings by using cuttings of illustrations reproduced in art books. He carefully selects not only\u00a0the colour values but also the images: glued together they produce the tactile, physical effect of\u00a0an impastoed surface. In the wake of the tradition of the 17th- and 18th-century artists, Muniz\u00a0ingeniously recombines various elements to reconstruct images that appeal to the visual subconscious\u00a0and invite viewers to explore further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57556,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"cini_tax_event_categories":[1487],"cini_tax_institutes":[34,22],"cini_tax_event_locations":[1519],"class_list":["post-57559","cini_events","type-cini_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cini_tax_event_categories-exhibitions","cini_tax_institutes-institute-of-art-history","cini_tax_institutes-istituto-di-storia-dellarte","cini_tax_event_locations-palazzo-cini-la-galleria"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n