Today I went to Caraglio, Cuneo, to see a show called "Beasts." A wonderful show. I recommend it, even if the cost is a bit 'high, but is average, 9 €, and indeed the whole is not very close.
I, for the first time I came FREE with the journalist card. Miracle!
http://www.comune.caraglio.cn.it/ SHOW: ANIMALS IN ART - Caraglio (CN)
Caraglio The Filatoio26 February - June 5 2011Bestie is certainly not a show of zoology. It 'an amazing tracking shot inside a fantasy world populated by creatures born from the mind (sometimes nightmares) of man. When their appearances attract species that would know every zoologist to recognize, they are entitled to participate in this show only because man has given them an added value, transforming, their unconscious, into a symbol. I mean more than skin and bones of animals in the case of projection of myths, fantasies, dreams, fears, hopes and illusions. "Creatures" that artists from the Middle Ages to the present, have set in paintings, sculptures, ceramics. An exhibition like the one given by February 26 to June 5, 2011 in Spinning Caraglio has not ever, not only in Italy.
Marcovaldo Cultural Association, the Piedmont Region, the Conseil Général des Alpes de Haute Provence, which they brought, the people entrusted to Alberto Cottino and Andreina d'Agliano, two specialists who, for the occasion, you are surrounded by a scientific committee of great levatura.Nel attempt to give a possible "Systematization" to a topic so sprawling, the editors have divided the major issues for review, identifying dozens of Italian museums and collections of great prestige a remarkable selection of paintings, sculpture, applied arts to exemplify.
It starts from the animals sacred to the Christian tradition: those related to the Virgin, the iconography of the saints (among them the lion, the eagle and the bull by the evangelists Mark, John and Matthew, the lion for St. Jerome ; for the deer or the wolf Sant'Eustachio and birds for St. Francis of Assisi), the depiction of the Holy Spirit as a dove. But even the animals which accompany many of the most salient moments of the Old and New Testamento.Dal sacred and the profane, or rather to another area of \u200b\u200bthe sacred, the mythology of the hunt: the figure of Diana the Huntress "protects" symbolic depictions of episodes from Greek and Roman mythology, leading to the ritual typically "ancien regime "of hunting by princes and demonic beasts and corrupt nobili.Alle another section is reserved, the flies, which represented the Flemish still lifes, are a symbol of corruptio, animals 'impure' (as the monkeys, a symbol of 'humanity devoid of reason, but also of the devil, and the lust of paganism). European art is full of representations of demonic beasts and "corrupt." Many animals were used as a symbol of evil and Satan, all the goat and the serpent, which is dedicated to a short path, but the frog (for his live in muddy environments and the croaking, coupled by the Church Fathers , the voice of the heresies, but also the protagonist of mythological stories like that of Latona), rat (as a carrier of disease) and squirrel (for its reddish color, the escape velocity in the capture). Dear
classical gods and heroes are the swan, the bull and the eagle of Jupiter, the peacock and herds for Juno, the sparrow and the dove of Venus, the lion Samson and legendary Ercole.Poi Animals Fantastic Monsters. Here is one to be investigated Strands dell'animalistica richer, both in the figurative in that treatise. Dragons, chimeras, centaurs, harpies, basilisks, sphinxes, phoenixes, griffins, leviathans, mermaids, mermen, unicorns triumph sculpture from medieval to Baroque painting, with infinite meanings simbolici.Dai show the dog and cat and, with them, the animals domestic players in a rich and well-documented section, often themselves associated with symbols: the fidelity is, by definition, characteristic of the dog. To be exposed in this last section are works related to the dog reproducing classic scenes, portraits of woman with dog or cat, but animals for work (such as cows and oxen Maremma macchiaioli but also by painters of the twentieth century that depict rural life), horses, farmyard animals (many from the seventeenth century paintings depicting chickens, chickens, turkeys, peacocks). Living and dead, because, as confirmed by the still lifes of food, animals, in addition to everything else, if they are in the flesh, or live in the imagination only, may also be a tasty food. "This shows - says President Associazione Culturale Marcovaldo, Fabrizio Pellegrino - is continuing to investigate that Marcovaldo launched in 2009 with "Rose. Purity and passion from the fifteenth century to today. "The investigation moves from the meanings attributed over the centuries to the queen of flowers to the symbolism of the animal kingdom, combining scientific rigor and prestige of a project developed with great attention to the recall of a theme, animals, strongly felt and accessible to the general public. Creating a project like this in times of crisis is a great sign of commitment by the institutions of the Association of providers and the editors, joined together to continue to produce stimulation and culture for the general public in the belief that it is the best investment possible. "BEASTS. real and fantastic animals in art from the Middle Ages to the first NovecentoCaraglio (Cuneo), The Spinning (Via Matteotti, 40) February 26 to June 5 2011Orario: Thursday - Saturday: 14.30 - 19.00, Sunday : 10.00 to 19.00.
Curated: Alberto Cottino and Andreina AglianoInfo of: Associazione Culturale Marcovaldo 260numero green 0171 618 800 329 329 Piedmont
www.marcovaldo.it reservations: Associazione Culturale Marcovaldotel. 0171 618260 e.mail
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