Monday, January 3, 2011

Brothers Masterbate Each Other

"portrait": Maleficent

Happy 2011 pestilential.
portrait with turban In these festivals are able to carve out a little 'time to take a stroll in My beloved Florence had not seen for some year or so. I wriggling among tourists who thronged the Piazza della Signoria and lined up to enter the Uffizi Gallery (which is free on Tuesday) and I are secluded in the Sala delle Reali Poste, right in front of the gallery to see the exhibition "Self-Portrait. Artist destrissimo of whimsy and wit "of which we here talked
Maria Cosway (Florence from 1760 to 1838)
. The show is really good, there is an interesting variety of works and recent acquisitions are truly remarkable. The exhibition runs through the corridor that runs along the bright central cloister of the room that collects the recent acquisitions of contemporary artists. The chronological order highlights the gradual emancipation of women in the art world, from the very timid remained hidden under the weight of subordination to the more famous contemporaries of the opposite sex works considered only a mere exercise of the fairer sex who used his affectation retreat in the mirror (a technique later came into vogue for men). Wives, daughters or sisters of painters, women enlightened considered the wonders of singular intelligence, capable of producing self-portraits that seem to come out from the brush of a man of high merit, rather than from that of a female, "such as Maria Cosway, simple and penetrating .
Marie Louise Ekman (Stockholm, 1944) The show takes us into the twentieth-century American portraitist Cecilia Beaux, a portrait fauve

Adriana Pincherle (sister of Alberto Moravia) and the curious to Marie-Louise Ekman, who sniffs the world from a small crack. last mention fetish for that stuff about me, go bust deformed Berline de Bruyckere, contained in an old case that does so much shelf in the section on human anatomy in any museum of natural history, but shocking and monstrous to same time hypnotic and fascinating.
Delays and Revolutions I can not find any images of this work that will touch you go see it live, but in the meantime I'll show you one of his works that I have seen some years ago at the Venice Biennale (and which also reminds me of both the Australian Patricia Piccinini

Berline de Bruyckere (Gent, 1964)
).
The only sore point of the exhibition is that the exhibition space is really small for such a large number of works that often are arranged in two overlapping rows: this hinders optimal viewing of the paintings on display at the top, which are also flooded the glow of neon that run on the frame near the ceiling. The first part of the route in particular is therefore a bit 'sacrificed.
Unfortunately I only read the end of the beautiful initiative linked to the exhibition
"Treat yourself to a restoration"
aims to raise funds for the Friends of the Uffizi for the restoration of a painting of the Gallery through guided tours of the exhibition organized by the Mercury.
The next visits will take place in the afternoon of 6 and 9 January 2011 from 14.30. ;
To participate please book by calling the Friends of Tourism (055 218413) Monday to Friday 9:00 to 13:00 and 14:30 to 18:30, Saturday 9.00-12.30. Offered at the Welcome Desk of the Friends of the Uffizi at the entrance of the exhibition (from 10 € per person, 15 € for two people, € 20 for three people, € 25 for four people).

short show Highly recommended is totally free and then you go, go and go!
soon,
Maleficent
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