ALTARS PROFANE
Exhibitions, Italy, Firenze, 11 October 2013
by Claudio Cosma

Sensus places for Contemporary Art - Florence

from 11 October to 30 November 2013

Sensus places for Contemporary Art
Viale Gramsci , 42 - Florence
Opening hours: Friday and Saturday from 18 to 20

Guest artists :

Emanuela Ascari - Emanuele Baiocchi - Alessandra Baldoni - Michele Chiossi - Isabelle Corniere - Giovanni Gaggia - Hoya Pale - Francesca Longhini - Anthony Lo Pinto - Manuela Mancioppi - Philip Manzini - Ilaria Margaret - Virginia Panichi - Tan Ru Yi - Arianna Vanini - Adrianna Wallis

Artists represented in the collection :

Battle Star - Angelo Barone - Antonio Borrani - Fabrizio Corneli - Claudio Cosma - Chiari Beppe - Leonora Bisagno - Mitsunori Kimura - Yuree Kensaku - Naomi Futaki - Thaweesak Lolay Srithongdee - Orawan Noyz Arunrak - Yoshitomo Nara - Nobuyoshi Araki - Aldo Frangioni - Paolo della Bella - Vittorio Messina - Paolo Masi - Paolo Parisi - Andrea Papi - Nari Ward - Yuki Ichihashi - Massimo Vitali - Margaret Cesaretti - Bärbel Reinhard - Marika Marchese - Silvia Noferi - Guido Strazza - Ivana Spinelli - Erique LaCorbeille - Zoé Gruni - Maurizio Combs - Luciano Bartolini - Adel Török - Chiara Camoni - Christiane Löhr - Andrea Filippi and Cataldo Valente - Andrea Cioschi ( AZT ) - Massimo Bartolini - Tracey Emin - Maria Cristina Carpi - Carlo Guaita - Lino Centi - Alice Olimpia Attanasio - Sethapong Povatong - Eleonora Siffredi - Tada Hengsapkul - Roberto Logi - Selene Lazzarini - Rossella Cazzin - Peter Bauhuis - Vairo Mongatti - Anne and Patrick Poirier - Willi Wainer - Antje Strater - Srisakul Amnuaiporn - Sergei Volkov - Lorenzo Pezzatini - Virginia Zanetti - Maximum Nannucci - Maurizio Nannucci

Sensus : " Altars Profane " from 11 October to 30 November 2013

The word altar evokes a geometric symmetry and space combined with an apparatus of liturgical gestures and words unchanging . All this made ​​up a scene of objects, heavenly music, songs of voices, lights oblique from stained glass , scents of spices and flickering candles burned in profusion . The word profane is irremediably secular , or becomes , after going through a period of estrangement mystical leading to disruption of the evanescent maintained by religions in fear of exclusion from the kingdom of heaven. From profane we find ourselves in front and in any case out of the holy place , but partakers of it , so do not atheists , but dissidents , " Protestants." Profane is also who is no stranger to some specific topic , but also anyone who violates the sacred precincts of destroying the icons ( iconoclasm ) or subtracting ( sacrilegious thief , grave robbers ) .
The title of the exhibition " Altars Profane " these components are combined contrasting but complementary , with the intent to highlight both the rituals that mark how much of our life suffers because of religious and learned from that unregulated by the consumer society . A reference are our houses from the famous collage of David Hamilton: " What makes our homes so special , so appealing ? " And contemporaneity itself that feeds the material elements that accompany and mark the passage of time at least , with its little rituals , esigendone an inventory of gestures and behaviors, but especially of consumer goods , according to their own tastes and possibililties.

Comments 2

emilia rebuglio
12 years ago
Congratulazioni!
Teresa Palombini
12 years ago
AUGURI!!

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