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National Gallery of the Marche – Ducal Palace of Urbino verified

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closed Golden Sculpture.

Curated by: Paola Stroppiana

The show

The exhibition offers, in the Renaissance rooms of the Ducal Palace of Urbino, an overview of the artist's jewel of the twentieth and twenty-first century and is a precious opportunity to bring to the attention of the public the contribution of sculptors and painters to the field of jewelry, understood as a perfectly accomplished work of art, in the full overcoming of major and minor arts which in the Palazzo di Federico finds full conceptual and aesthetic realization.
The exhibition itinerary presents a wide selection of specimens, more than 140 pieces, made by 46 international artists, highlighting contributions and influences and underlining the revolutionary scope of the contamination between the arts in the goldsmith sector.
The exhibition, curated by Paola Stroppiana, proposes as a first element of investigation the re-enactment of the great goldsmith culture of the Marche: the region is recognized as a district of international level for skills and dissemination of schools and models.
In the twentieth century the goldsmith culture of the Marche enjoys a renewed prestige thanks to figures such as Edgardo Mannuci, Giuseppe Uncini, Valeriano Trubbiani, Eliseo Mattiacci, Giorgio Facchini, Alberto Giorgi, who have often combined their vocation to teaching, training new generations of artists. The role of the brothers Arnaldo Pomodoro and Gio 'Pomodoro, whose international fame in the arts has raised the name of the Marche in the world: both have created ornaments of great beauty (also re-evaluating the ancient technique of fusion in bone of sepia) and at the same time have contributed significantly to the critical re-elaboration of the artist's jewel, sometimes confined to a mere reduction in scale or to an expression of high craftsmanship, re-evaluating the dignity, even museum-like, of a perfectly completed work of art. equal to drawing and sculpture.
Subsequently, the Italian masters are examined (Afro, Nino Franchina, Gino Severini, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Umberto Mastroianni, Getulio Alviani, Giorgio De Chirico) who, starting from the Second World War, have become interpreters of the artist's jewel, a unique piece “Author”, thanks to the enlightened commission of merchants, gallery owners and patrons such as Mario Masenza and the Fumanti brothers in Rome. At the same time, in the Milan of the late 1960s, the paradigmatic adventure of Gian Carlo Montebello and Teresa Pomodoro began, who together founded GEM Montebello.
These, between 1967 and 1978, still in parallel with the exclusivity of the "unique piece" by Masenza and Fumanti, collaborate with over 50 artists editing about 200 jewels in multiples in limited edition. Many names were involved, starting with the brothers-in-law Arnaldo and Gio 'Pomodoro, Fausta Squatriti, Piero Dorazio, Lucio Fontana, Joe Tilson, Lowell Nesbitt, Niki de Saint Phalle, Pol Bury, Jesús Rafael Soto, Pietro Consagra, Claude Lalanne, Man Ray , Joy Tilson.
Following is a precious selection of specimens and unique pieces by internationally renowned artists who have dealt with the goldsmith field since the 40s of the last century such as Alexander Calder, Salvador Dalí, George Braque, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Louise Nevelson, Alicia Penalba, with often surprising episodes, to reach some examples of jewels made by contemporary artists (Igor Mitoraj, Sophia Vari, Enrico Castellani, Giulio Paolini, Anish Kapoor, Giorgio Vigna), who transfer the poetics of their research into the jewel with new awareness supported by enlightened clients, new generations of gallery owners-patrons and a renewed critical sensitivity to the subject.
The mix of major and minor arts is the founding theme of the exhibition itself, which explores its conceptual and expressive potential, involving the architecture of the Doge's Palace through virtual stage sets.
Interactive projections and changing scenographic environments tell the imaginative dimension of the artists and create a fictitious architecture in which artist's jewels, painting, sculpture and architectural elements dialogue, experimenting with the idea of a new Renaissance also in a technological key.

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