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The show

After the success of the two previous editions, the now traditional cycle of projections of videos, films and documentaries on art proposed by the Ragghianti Foundation in the winter months is back.
Curated by Alessandro Romanini, the review "Art on the screen", strongly desired by the president Alberto Fontana and the director Paolo Bolpagni, and created in collaboration with the Lucca Film Festival - Europa Cinema, is this year focused on contemporary art, from Marcel Duchamp to current events.

It is precisely in the line of research traced by Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, one of the main theorists and pioneers of the use of the audiovisual medium for the interpretation and dissemination of art, that the Foundation named after him promotes this new cycle of projections, which will all have place, with free admission, in the “Vincenzo da Massa Carrara” Conference Room in the San Micheletto Complex in Lucca, starting at 5:30 pm, for four consecutive Saturdays.

The first appointment, on January 12th , is dedicated to two protagonists of the twentieth century, Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol . In the movie "Nude Descending the Stairs: Spiral Time" , created by Alain Jaubert with the contribution of the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris, the painting by Duchamp that gives the title to the documentary is the starting point for the analysis of the complex work of the French artist, considered the father of the conceptual vein of 20th century art.
It is from the ten portraits that Warhol painted of the actress Elizabeth Taylor that the documentary “Ten Lizes” , also made by Alain Jaubert, takes off: from here begins an articulated career path of the most famous exponent of American Pop Art.

On Saturday 19 January the documentary “ The artist is present” will be screened, on the mother of the performing art Marina Abramović , whose exhibition “The Cleaner” is currently underway in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi . Director Matthew Akers follows the Serbian artist during the preparation period of the great retrospective dedicated to her by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2010, leading us to discover all the aspects of a nearly fifty-year career.

Bill Viola is the protagonist of the documentary “The road to St. Paul's” , which will be screened on Saturday 26 January . It is the same American artist, celebrated in the main museum spaces of the five continents, who guides us in the genesis of the two great video installations made on commission for Saint Paul's Cathedral in London, indebted to the Tuscan Renaissance iconography, which is the source of inspiration for many of his works.

The exhibition ends with an Italian, the always surprising and unpredictable Maurizio Cattelan , to whom the documentary by Maura Axelrod "Be right back" is dedicated, who ventures into the creative universe of the artist in a dynamic, fun and overwhelming way, following his traces through interviews and testimonies of gallery owners, critics and friends, punctuated by the stories and anecdotes of the ex-girlfriend, his sister Giada and the current partner of Cattelan, who became famous in 1999 with the sculpture depicting Pope John Paul II on the ground struck by a meteorite.

All the meetings, with free admission, will be preceded by a presentation and guide to the vision by Alessandro Romanini.

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