Centre for Contemporary Culture at Palazzo Strozzi

Palazzo Strozzi

Don’t miss the opening of the new exhibition!
Thursday 4 October 2012, 19.00
Free entrance

 

Francis Bacon and the Existential Condition in Contemporary Art

Artists: Nathalie Djurberg, Adrian Ghenie, Arcangelo Sassolino, Chiharu Shiota, Annegret Soltau

The exhibition will be presenting work by contemporary artists who exam today’s existential state of societal mind. Their work explores the kind of questions man asks himself in his relationship with his own interior being, his body and the outside world.  At the core of the exhibition are paintings by Francis Bacon (1909-1992), whose work is placed in dialogue with that of five contemporary artists of international renown. These artists share Bacon’s reflection on man’s existential condition and on the depiction of the human figure.

Bacon’s paintings on display are set against a selection of photographic and hardcopy material from the artist’s archive: photo portraits, reproductions of masterpieces of the past, film stills, and pictures from books and magazines. This material, which Bacon used as a working tool when creating his art, is presented in the exhibition thanks to the CCC Strozzina’s cooperation with the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, which acquired an authentic and perfectly preserved reconstruction of the artist’s last London workshop in 1998.

 

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