ARTISTS
Emilio Isgr貌: Modello Italia (2013 - 1964)
Emilio Isgr貌 is one of those artists who you can understand right away, but you discover little by little.
He captures your gaze with a simple synthesis after having elaborated complex ideas.
He puts himself at your level, but you have a lot to learn from him.
He鈥檚 someone who never stops, because success does not eliminate doubt.
He can speak about anything, because he has a gift for irony. And like all true artists, he writes, paints, and says what you believe too, but wouldn鈥檛 know how to say the way he does.
In other words, you feel he is close to you and extremely topical.
When I received the invitation for the opening of the exhibition La Costituzione cancellata (The Constitution Erased) in November 2010 (Boxart, Verona) it was like getting punched where I was already feeling pain.
The subtitle was: Rappresentazione di un crimine (Representation of a crime), and the sentence printed on the back of the card read: "this show is an artist鈥檚 cry of pain for an Italy that is falling apart."
I was already familiar with his work, and I wrote to him right away to share his pain.
Perhaps that鈥檚 where this exhibition starts from.
To describe the event and everything leading up to it I am strongly tempted to interview Isgr貌, because no one better than the artist can speak about and explain his work, which he knows how to do both as a writer and a poet. However, in this case, fully aware of the meaning that together we chose to give Modello Italia (Model Italy), I declare that "I am Angelandreina Rorro," and I take full responsibility in my role as curator.
This event starts from 2008, the year of the retrospective at the Centro per l鈥橝rte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, curated by Marco Bazzini and Achille Bonito Oliva, for which the artist made a large canvas entitled Dichiaro di essere Emilio Isgr貌 (I Declare I Am Emilio Isgr貌). A monumental blank page where the only words that are not erased are those with which the mature artist takes responsibility, and after 35 years 鈥渟ettles his debt to the public鈥� to whom he had declared in 1971 that he was not Emilio Isgr貌. Since then a series of complex works鈥攁lthough we refer to them as installations for the sake of simplicity, they are actually poetic groups made up of various independent elements鈥攈ave followed one another in a crescendo that has made them and makes them theatrical mise-en-sc猫nes, but also the artist鈥檚 commentary on contemporary reality.
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Emilio Isgr貌 is one of those artists who you can understand right away, but you discover little by little.
He captures your gaze with a simple synthesis after having elaborated complex ideas.
He puts himself at your level, but you have a lot to learn from him.
He鈥檚 someone who never stops, because success does not eliminate doubt.
He can speak about anything, because he has a gift for irony. And like all true artists, he writes, paints, and says what you believe too, but wouldn鈥檛 know how to say the way he does.
In other words, you feel he is close to you and extremely topical.
When I received the invitation for the opening of the exhibition La Costituzione cancellata (The Constitution Erased) in November 2010 (Boxart, Verona) it was like getting punched where I was already feeling pain.
The subtitle was: Rappresentazione di un crimine (Representation of a crime), and the sentence printed on the back of the card read: "this show is an artist鈥檚 cry of pain for an Italy that is falling apart."
I was already familiar with his work, and I wrote to him right away to share his pain.
Perhaps that鈥檚 where this exhibition starts from.
To describe the event and everything leading up to it I am strongly tempted to interview Isgr貌, because no one better than the artist can speak about and explain his work, which he knows how to do both as a writer and a poet. However, in this case, fully aware of the meaning that together we chose to give Modello Italia (Model Italy), I declare that "I am Angelandreina Rorro," and I take full responsibility in my role as curator.
This event starts from 2008, the year of the retrospective at the Centro per l鈥橝rte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, curated by Marco Bazzini and Achille Bonito Oliva, for which the artist made a large canvas entitled Dichiaro di essere Emilio Isgr貌 (I Declare I Am Emilio Isgr貌). A monumental blank page where the only words that are not erased are those with which the mature artist takes responsibility, and after 35 years 鈥渟ettles his debt to the public鈥� to whom he had declared in 1971 that he was not Emilio Isgr貌. Since then a series of complex works鈥攁lthough we refer to them as installations for the sake of simplicity, they are actually poetic groups made up of various independent elements鈥攈ave followed one another in a crescendo that has made them and makes them theatrical mise-en-sc猫nes, but also the artist鈥檚 commentary on contemporary reality.
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