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Jeff Koons reinterprets classical sculpture at the Gallerie d'Italia

2021-09-15T13:20:12.424Z


Installation in view of the exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence (ANSA) MILAN - A grandiose classical sculpture, reproduced with a plaster cast, with a mirroring sphere in blue blown glass resting on it. This is the work 'Gazing Ball, Centaur and Lapith Maiden' (2013), by the American artist Jeff Koons, hosted at the Intesa Sanpaolo Gallerie d'Italia in Piazza Scala in Milan. An installation that creates an ideal connection between the Lombard capital and Florence, wh


MILAN - A grandiose classical sculpture, reproduced with a plaster cast, with a mirroring sphere in blue blown glass resting on it.

This is the work 'Gazing Ball, Centaur and Lapith Maiden' (2013), by the American artist Jeff Koons, hosted at the Intesa Sanpaolo Gallerie d'Italia in Piazza Scala in Milan.

An installation that creates an ideal connection between the Lombard capital and Florence, where the exhibition entitled 'Jeff Koons.

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The work exhibited in Milan is part of the famous 'Gazing Ball' series, in which the artist places shiny mirroring blue glass spheres on faithful reproductions of works, both painting and sculpture, by very different authors: from Leonardo Da Vinci to Eduard Manet, from Giotto to Vincent Van Gogh, from Praxiteles to Cristophe-Gabriel Allegrain. Here the sphere is placed on the plaster cast of a marble sculpture (over two and a half meters high and almost two meters long), part of the western pediment of the Temple of Zeus in Olympia, Greece, depicting the struggle between a centaur and a Lapita woman. For the cast, Koons used a nineteenth-century one already part of a collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The episode depicted in theThe work exhibited in Milan is taken from the Greek myth of the battle between Centaurs and Lapiths, one of the most popular subjects in the history of classical and Renaissance art, a symbol of the struggle between order and chaos, civilization and barbarism. Koons thus creates a hybrid between different temporal dimensions and above all a reflection on the relationship between public and work of art. It is the mirroring sphere that is the protagonist, in fact, attracting the viewer's gaze, and incorporating it into the work together with the surrounding environment.the mirroring sphere is the protagonist, in fact, attracting the viewer's gaze, and incorporating it into the work together with the surrounding environment.the mirroring sphere is the protagonist, in fact, attracting the viewer's gaze, and incorporating it into the work together with the surrounding environment.

According to Michele Coppola, Intesa Sanpaolo's executive director of Art, Culture and Historical Heritage, "the exhibition dedicated to Koons strengthens the historic link with Palazzo Strozzi in Florence by hosting, also in the Intesa Sanpaolo museum, a recognized protagonist of world art". "We are proud to work with Gallerie d'Italia in the celebration of an international artist of the caliber of Koons who with his works, for 40 years, has been challenging the perception and reflection on the concept and role of art in the contemporary world" he added Arturo Galansino, general director of the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation.

Source: ansa

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