Love returns renewed every
February 14
, with
couples, kisses, hearts and other representations, as diverse as eras and ideosyncracies.
These days, different initiatives are added to
Valentine's Day.
Clarín
advanced the special programming organized by the CCK in the City
.
Abroad, for example, appears the
curious conference
Love me fast: Romantic love and social networks
, which the Spanish artist Noemí Iglesias Barrios and the curator Rocío de la Villa will offer this February 14 at the
Thyssen Museum
in
Madrid.
This is an activity that accompanies the
exhibition of the same name,
with
a gender perspective,
which reflects in that space on
romantic love
on social networks - and the sale of
special
souvenirs .
Another initiative is the week of
The Goddess of Love: the Thousand Faces of Venus
and a contest for networks, both organized by the
Borghese Gallery in Rome
Banksy.
Girl and red balloon, exhibited in La Rural.
Photo: Maxi Failla, archive
This space offers "a vision of
the thousand faces of Venus, the goddess of love, beauty, natural fertility, sensual or demure, capricious or persuasive"
, a goddess who finds ample space in the imagination of artists and patrons, present in the collection of the Roman gallery.
Fall in Love with the Borghese Gallery
runs until February 18.
Italy, country and tragic setting for the lovers of Verona, immortalized by English drama in
Romeo and Juliet
, also focuses on love with
Amarse.
Love in art from Titian to Banksy
, an exhibition on display until April at the
Palazzo Montani Leoni,
in the Italian city of
Terni
, north of Rome.
The exhibition organized by the Fondazione Carit is conceived as a tribute to
Saint Valentine
who lived between the 3rd and 4th centuries, and who, although
decanonized
a few years ago by the Church, is the protector of lovers and patron saint of Terni.
On the tour, the works of art range
from antiquity to the present day
, exhibiting works ranging from
Guercino to Dosso Dossi and Tintoretto, passing through Francesco Hayez, Antonio Canova to Giorgio De Chirico, Giacomo Balla.
"Heart and chips."
At the Thyssen.
Photo: Thyssen
The exhibition points to the "
most well-known and passionate iconography
dedicated to the feeling that has most inspired artists throughout the centuries" from the purest love to that of amorous seduction, to its questioning in "
the most problematic and ambiguous relationships." described by artists of the 20th century"
, to "immerse yourself in a journey rich in stories and emotions", the organizers point out.
For this reason, the exhibition opens with a tribute to Saint Valentine, who can be seen in a painting attributed to Giambattista Volpato baptizing Saint Lucia, after the miracle of restoring his sight.
Towards the end he questions love, in works where one can observe "
the gaze of the wife of the futurist Balla
portrayed by the artist in
Doubt
(1907) or
the farewell embrace of the two mannequins by Giorgio De Chirico
, titled
Hector and Andromache
( 1917).
To close, the exhibition features Banksy as one of the versions of
Balloon Girl
-
A girl looks at her heart-shaped balloon, caught by the wind.
The chosen ones of a poet, a painter and a critic
But what works represent or symbolize lovers or heartbreak?
The question permeates the answers of the poet
Teresa Arijón
, the visual artist
Paula Sendorowicz
, and the curator and teacher
Adriana Lauría
, who propose images of works as different as meanings that move, from the romantic and idyllic,
between French post-impressionism and the gauchesco
, even the
disruptiveness
of a Love written in capital letters.
Arijón prefers to detach himself from the common places, which is why he focuses his attention on the paintings of the French
Gustave Courbet and Toulouse-Lautrec
,
The Dream
(1866) and
Le lit
, respectively.
He also proposes the surreal
Amor Che Move Il Sole L'altre Stelle
by the British
Leonora Carrington
and
Los Perros
, by the Argentine
Lula Mari
.
Valentine's Day "The Dream", by Coubert.
Archive
"I decided on
a story between a model and a painter
, which perhaps evokes love and its mysteries, or its
contradictions
," said the author of
The Painted Woman
(2021), where she portrayed the very particular relationship between the models and the artists. .
"Some models inspire painters because of their appearance, others because of their personality," she noted in her book.
This time he brings the story told by Dan Franck in
Paris-Bohemia,
where "the protagonists are the unfortunate Maurice Utrillo and the incomparable Alice Prin, better known as
Kikí de Montparnasse
," he says about "the artists' favorite model."
"Foujita, Kisling, Man Ray and many others had already represented that young girl, jovial and brash, whose behavior, manners and silhouette were known throughout the world. Utrillo also wanted to paint her portrait. He stopped in front of the easel, asked her to took the pose and painted for three hours straight. At the end of the session, Kikí asked to see the portrait. Utrillo accepted. He moved away from the canvas
. The girl approached. She laughed.
That laugh that all the bistros in the city knew. left bank of the Seine. She leaned forward a little, to check that she was not wrong. She was not wrong. She had seen well. It
was not her face that appeared on the canvas. Nor her body.
For three hours, Utrillo had painted a little house in the middle of the field," shares Arijón.
Senderowicz proposes
The Foreigners
(2018) by Argentine Claudia Fontes
: "It makes me think of the idea that in a couple the members
never end up knowing each other completely
, years can pass, the other is still 'a foreigner'."
It also proposes
Luise Bourgeois
and one of her
The Couple
(2007 - 09), or the work by Cuban
Félix González Torres
Untitled (
For a Man in Uniform
, 1991) that installs a large stack of white-wrapped lollipops in a corner. , blue and red.
And it invites us to think about Feliciano Centurión
's embroidered works
titled
Que en nuestra almas no el terror
(1992) and
Reposa (1996) -written on a pillow-, as well as
Diana Shufer
's installation
Donde las cartas une
(1995- 2018): a bed and a pile of correspondence.
Valentine's Day.
"Let terror not enter our souls", work by Feliciano Centurión Photo: archive
That is a topic that fascinates Senderowicz, who photographed the installation
Lovers at a Distance
(2006), where frozen sheets hang from a rope in the forest of Banff, Canada.
On the other hand, focused on Argentine art, Lauría invites with "a work that never ceases to move" such as the beginning of a courtship "full of suggestions" portrayed by
Juan León Pallière
in
Idilio criollo
(1861), a painting from the collection of the
National Museum of Fine Arts.
However, jumping decades, she provokes with the plastic-performatic novel
Besos brujos
(1965) by
Alberto Greco
, whose original is in the MoMA in New York, and is "a loss for our national heritage," notes the curator.
"Besos Brujos", by Alberto Greco, in the MoMA catalogue.
Photo: Screenshot
It is "a handwritten narrative of written, plastic texts", with indications that allow it to be acted out, "around a love that was and will now be impossible, with encounters, plots, disagreements, overflowing passion and inevitable breakup, which will drive the artist to conceive in this same text
his suicide, a few months after finishing the work
," he explains.
Another loving perspective, Lauria points out, is the installation
Love Letters and Beds
(1994) by
Diana Schufer
, presented at the
Recoleta Cultural Center
, which "consisted of a series of two-seater beds on whose sheets images of love letters were projected." .
Valentine's Day "Love letters and beds", by Diana Schufer.
"The suggestive atmosphere achieved by the panels that separated the spaces occupied by each bed, the lighting, the soundtrack, and, above all, the sensation of
entering the intimacy
of private rooms, was strengthened by the texts of the letters that , with a confessional tone, they gave an account of passions, evoked encounters, breakups, promises," he describes.
Perhaps this year Banksy will turn his acid look for Valentine's Day as in 2023 when he alluded to toxic love in the British city of Margate with
Valentine's Day Mask
, a drawing that showed a beaten housewife sweeping the body of a man in a freezer.
Minujin.
One of the mattresses pop out of it.
Photo: archive
Meanwhile, other works seem to describe love and passion, among them the intriguing
The Lovers
(1928) by René Magritte - which depicts a couple with their faces covered, kissing - or the narrowed faces of
Roy Lichtenstein's pop
Kiss V.
Although with a different metaphor, it is also promoted by the famous psychedelic mattresses by the also pop
Marta Minujín
or
How good it is to be together
(1997-2001) by
Luis Felipe Noé.
With information from Télam
J.S.