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On Flower Power. The Role of the Vase in Arts, Crafts and Design
16/07/2019-29/09/2019
With On Flower Power. The Role of the Vase in Arts, Crafts and Design the Galleria Nazionale radically and unconventionally explores the hybrid territory in which art, design and craftsmanship interact.
This exhibition On Flower Power, curated by Martí Guixé with Inga Knölke, represents the first occasion for the Galleria Nazionale to compare these languages in relation to contemporary art and focuses on a seemingly neutral object: the flower vase.
This element, a recurring archetype, becomes the principle medium for a narrative that intertwines the history of art, the history of applied arts and the history of design.
After becoming an obsolete object, the vase was rediscovered in the second half of the twentieth century when artists, architects and designers began to re-code a typology, which has now become a real icon of everyday life. Thanks to the shapes and heterogeneity of use and dimensions, the role of the vase as a mere container has been reconsidered and it has become a kind of training ground of design through which to show one’s creativity and point of view.
On Flower Power focuses on the empathetic power of the flower and how this emotional factor is reworked within the various disciplines.
«A hybrid look at art, craftsmanship and design through an object that is already transversal in itself, the flower vase, which also becomes empathetic precisely because of its ability to find an emotional complicity with its observer. In the exhibition, the flower vase, through the interpretation of the artist, craftsman or designer, becomes an empathetic object and in a way a subject of our near future».
Martí Guixé, curatorOn display there are more than eighty works that reinterpret the tradition and iconography of the vase through design, photography, sculpture and painting. Among the works some from the most important protagonists of the international design scene such as Enzo Mari (Cerano, 1932) and Gaetano Pesce (La Spezia, 1939) to the Mendini Vase Project, a work (produced for Alessi in 1992 by the Milanese architect Alessandro Mendini) that includes the works of 100 artists such as Brian Eno, Robert Venturi, Milton Glaser and Ettore Sottsass.
Reflection around the vase continues in the elegant aesthetic research by the Dutch-born designer Hella Jongerius (Utrecht, 1963), the provocative language of Tobias Rehberger (Esslingen, 1966) and the irony of Franz West (Vienna, 1947 – 2012).
The common denominator of the selected artists is the formal experimentation and conceptual provocation, which is evident in the sculptures by Austrian artist Oliver Laric (Innsbruck, 1981) and in the hybridisation of the expressive languages of the duo Aurora Sander.
A serie of photographic prints and five examples of the FAD Cup, the trophy that every year the FAD – Foment de les Arts i del Disseny – commissions to contemporary artists and designers (just to name a few, Antoni Cumella, André Ricard, Oscar Tusquets, Jaume Plensa, Joan Brossa, Tapies, Antoni Miralda, Mariscal, Fernando and Humberto Campana, Elias Torres, Martín Azua and Marc Monzó); the trophy is also included in Simone Bergantini’s research, of which part of the photographic series Trophies is exhibited, trophies, deconstructed and recomposed by the artist in total freedom.
On the walls of the Salone Centrale, there are about thirty still lifes from the museum’s collection where flowers and their containers are the dominant subject. Among the many are works by Filippo De Pisis, Mario Mafai, Giorgio Morandi, Gaetano Previati and Toti Scialoja.
On Flower Power. The Role of the Vase in Arts, Crafts and Design
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
16.07 — 29.09.2019
Photo by di Inga KnölkeThe catalogue is published by Corraini Edizioni, with contributions by Alberto Bonisoli, Cristiana Collu, Martí Guixé, Giuseppe Finessi, Alessandro Mendini, Octavi Rofes e Jeffrey Swartz.
“I say: a flower […] rises harmoniously and gently, the ideal flower itself, the one that is absent from all earthly bouquets” Stéphane Mallarmé
On Flower Power inherits the baton from the exhibition Ragione e Sentimento that immediately preceded it. It has its roots in the long century, whose embers are still burning and ready to ignite sparks and fires. The new discoveries of that revolutionary century are still undoubtedly there, not only to keep art and painting in check, but also to spark a vision.
“I say that it is necessary to be a seer, to become a seer”, says Arthur Rimbaud and the seer par excellence is the one who does not have sight and for this reason more than anyone can not only imagine but see with the fullness of all the senses, with reason and feeling, beyond categories and canons, prefiguring invention, what it is and what it will be.
The On Flower Power exhibition tries to implement this process, the research in its creation, the intuition of something that still eludes us, the heuristic openness, the “accidental knowledge” of this invention, of this ability to find it.
As if what is shown in the museum hall was still in progress, still suspended, without taxonomies, as if it were a whole, one of the primitive and intuitive concepts of mathematics, primitive because it is fundamental, intuitive because it is analogous to sensitive experience. And it is thanks to the latter that immaterial similarities are brought to light, not the mimesis of things, but the allusive gesture, the spark, the volatile vibration that triggers the metaphor and creates mousiké.
Cristiana Collu
Director of the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e ContemporaneaThe webseries on YouTube
01 – Empathy transforms a vase of flowers from an object to a subject
02 – The Role of the Vase in Arts, Crafts and Design
03 – Why we need a flower vase emoji 🏺💐
04 – Non-exhibition Spaces by Martí Guixé at the National Gallery
05 – Design BoundariesArtists on display: Martín Azua, Simone Bergantini, Chiara Bettazzi, Marina Bolla, Chiara Camoni, Coudre, Antoni Cumella i Serret, Sabine Delafon, Nicolaj Diulgheroff, Elena El Asmar, Haris Epaminonda, Nicola Filia, Marguerite Friedländer-Wildenhain, Nancy Graves, Gucci, Hermès, Kodai Iwamoto, Hella Jongerius, Markus Kayser, Inga Knölke, Oliver Laric, Enzo Mari, Ursula Mayer, Javier Mariscal, Alessandro Mendini, Paolo Meoni, Marc Monzó, Takashi Murakami, Luigi Ontani, Gaetano Pesce, Pierluigi Piu, Tobias Rehberger, André Ricard i Sala, Aurora Sander, Addo Trinci, Franz West.
From the collections: Antonio Agostani, Luigi Aversano, Mario Bacchelli, Baccio Maria Bacci, Ugo Bernasconi, Domenico Caputi, Felice Carena, Francesco Chiappelli, Arnout Colnot, Vincenzo Colucci, Filippo De Pisis, Gabriella Denis-Rault, Giuseppe Guzzi, Maria Lehel, Enrico Lionne, Mario Mafai, Pietro Martina, Marino Mazzacurati, Pietro Melecchi, Rolando Monti, Giorgio Morandi, Guido Peyron, Gaetano Previati, Ilario Rossi, Angelo Savelli, Toti Scialoja, Antonio Simeoni, Carlo Siviero, Arturo Tosi.
On Flower Power. The Role of the Vase in Arts, Crafts and Design
16.07 — 29.09.2019Martí Guixé (Barcelona, 1964) is a designer, trained in Barcelona and Milan, whose work transcends the usual boundaries of this discipline; the museums where he has exhibited include MoMA in New York, MACBA in Barcelona, Triennale in Milan, MART in Rovereto, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Mudac in Lausanne and Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome.
Inga Knölke (Hannover, 1965) is a photographer based in Berlin and Barcelona. She directs the project Imagekontainer. She studied photography at the Lette Foundation in Berlin and holds a degree in Cultural Sciences and Aesthetic Communication from the University of Hildesheim.
Food Age. Food as Influencer is the final exhibition in the trilogy curated by Martí Guixé and Inga Knölke for the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea.
Three exhibitions that have seen the museum, for the first time, explore in a radical and unconventional way the hybrid territory in which art, design and craftsmanship engage in a dialogue.
The first exhibition was On Flower Power (2019) which addressed the question of the capacity for empathy within digital techniques and mechanisms with digital operating systems, where the object of mediation was the flower vase.
On Flower Power. The Role of the Vase in Arts, Crafts and Design
16.07 — 29.09.2019The second stage was instead INTERTWINGLED (2022) which concerned interconnectivity and the possibility of making complexity visible through a graphic and concrete interface, with the motif of the weaving and the carpet as a common thread.
INTERTWINGLED – The Role of the Rug in Arts, Crafts and Design
21.03 — 04.09.2022The latest exhibition Food Age. Food as Influencer (2023) has staged food, paradoxically the object we have to deal with most during our existence and, through a subliminal reading, shows it to the public from a new point of view.
Food Age. Food as Influencer
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