Art Crimes, Exhibition Ambrosian Art Gallery, Milan

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Art Crimes:

From Plato to Duchamp, from Aristotle to Dalì, from Raphael to Cattelan: 500 years of art and mysteries in the footsteps of the School of Athens

From 3 April to 28 April 2025

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Ambrosian Art Gallery

Piazza Pio XI, 2, Milan

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After telling the story of the Renaissance, with his unique style, in the heart of London with Timeless Inspiration, Angelo Accardi continues his exploration of Italian Cinquecento in a symbolic place, the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, an international temple of culture and artistic memory, where he will present, from April 3 to 28, the exhibition Art Crimes, a site-specific installation of canvases, videos, designs, and sculptures hosted in one of the oldest and most iconic places in Milan.Founded in 1607 by Cardinal Federico Borromeo, the Ambrosiana Library is the guardian of masterpieces such as the preparatory cartoon of Raphael's School of Athens, Leonardo's Atlantic Codex, and Caravaggio's Basket of Fruit. It is here - in the same Sala del Foro Romano that in 2019 hosted Marina Abramovic's The Cleaner - that from April 3, Accardi proposes a renewed dialogue between Renaissance tradition and contemporary languages with an inclusive exhibition that transcends hierarchies between high culture and pop culture, composed entirely of unpublished works."The good artist copies, the great artist steals," said Picasso, and this is how the master of citationism, Angelo Accardi, decides to "plunder" Raphael's preparatory cartoon of the School of Athens and return it to the visitor through the distorting lens and irreverent language of pop surrealism.From this comes Art Crimes with its "School of Athens": a contemporary pantheon where Duchamp, Bacon, Velázquez, Dalì, Warhol, Cattelan, Picasso are added to the artists portrayed by Raphael, introducing playful elements in a bewildering, instructive, and entertaining path, in search of the ineffable creative genius.International artist, Angelo Accardi is one of the leading exponents of Pop Surrealism. In the 90s, he began his research on new figuration, experimenting with techniques and materials. In the early 2000s, he created the Misplaced series, introducing the figure of the ostrich as a metaphor for the indefinite fear of liquid society, a concept theorized by Zygmunt Bauman. In 2006, he exhibited in Shanghai with the avant-garde group TantArte, and in 2011 he was selected by Marco Vallora for the 54th Venice Biennale. Since 2017, he has collaborated with Eden Gallery, exhibiting in New York, Miami, Mykonos, and Tel Aviv. In 2022, he realized the public art project Poetry, with simultaneous installations in Milan, Palermo, and Venice, closing the trilogy started by Robert Indiana with LOVE and HOPE. In 2024, he participates in the 60th Venice Art Biennale. In the same year, his work Violet is chosen for the cover of the Atlas of Contemporary Art (Giunti), edited by the Corporate Patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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From Plato to Duchamp, from Aristotle to Dalì, from Raphael to Cattelan: 500 years of art and mysteries in the footsteps of the School of Athens

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