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Item Number: 122522
Title: White : Marble and Paint, From Antiquity to Now
Author: Sperone, Gian Enzo ; Marco Voena
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780956365088
Description: London: Roblant & Voena, 2012. 28cm., pbk., 59pp. illus. English text. Exhibition catalogue. Summary: the exhibition will showcase over twenty works – in the main part marbles, set against a selection of white paint canvases by Italian modernists of the 1960s. Starting from a fourth century BC Ionian relief, via a surreal Vanitas by a seventeenth century anonymous Italian artist and an elegant eighteenth century Bust by Filippo della Valle, through a lyrical biomorphic 1941 Orphic Dream by Jean Arp, to the symbolical 2007 marble doors by Ai Weiwei and a minimal Tom Sachs sculpture from 2010 – the show will explore the mysterious power and elegance of white marble irrespective of subject, period or maker. The absence of colour is notable, not least since marble sculpture in its gestation in antiquity was anything but white – the effects of time having errased the painted decoration have left us with a purity and simplicity not intentional in its origin. This historical illusion, reclaimed during the Renaissance as a model, has changed the use of this material entirely – now marble cannot be anything other than its natural beautiful colour – celebrated here in its essence.
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