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Item Number: 132573
Title: La Guerra che Verrà non è la Prima 1914-2014
Author: Boschiero, Nicoletta (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788891802552
Description: Milano: Electa, 2014. 28cm., pbk., 544pp. illus. Exhibition held at MART, Rovereto. Italian text. Summary: The exhibition presents some historic masterpieces from the Mart’s own collections, including works by Giacomo Balla, Anselmo Bucci, Fortunato Depero and Gino Severini. A long series of important loans from Italy and abroad, from public and private collections and galleries, rounds off the project. There are also numerous works by artists who lived through the horror of the Great War; on top of the exponents of Italian avant-garde movements mentioned above, this list includes Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall, Albin Egger-Lienz, Adolf Helmberger, Osvaldo Licini, Arturo Martini, Pietro Morando and Mario Sironi, and is joined by the work of directors of the time, like Filippo Butera, Segundo de Chomón and Abel Gance. Among the artists involved directly in the conflict, there will be a section dedicated to the Czechoslovak photographer, Josef Sudek. On display will be not just war as a personal experience but also as a recurrent thought in the work of many artists, including Lida Abdul, Enrico Baj, Yael Bartana, Alberto Burri, Alighiero Boetti, Pascal Convert, Gohar Dashti, Berlinde De Bruyeckere, Paola De Pietri, Harun Farocki, Yervant Gianikian e Angela Ricci Lucchi, Alfredo Jaar, William Kentridge, Mateo Maté, Adi Nes, ORLAN, Sophie Ristelhueber, Thomas Ruff, Anri Sala and Artur Zmijewski. Some of the best works by artists as yet unknown to the Italian public will be on display. A masterpiece that has not yet been shown in Italy is the complete series of 15 woodcuts by Sandow Birk, measuring 2.5 meters each. Birk narrates the war in Iraq by basing himself on the 18 woodcuts by Jacques Callot (1633) called Les Grandes Misères de la guerre, which was an inspiration also to Francisco Goya for his own Desastres de la guerra (1810-1815) on the Spanish war of independence.
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