From September 4 to 24 novembre the showroom ARTUR RAMON ART presented in Barcelona shows that culminates more than twenty years devoted to the study and claiming the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Venice 1720 – Rome 1778), one of the five great history of printmaking.
“Piranesi and his world” seeks dialogue over sixty pictures emerged genius brain Venetian decorative art of his time. All prints in the gallery are shot in Roman editions artist’s life and belong to several of the most popular series of the artist: Carceri, or Lago di Roma Vedute Albano.
The exhibition combines, as if it were a village neoclassical, Piranesi’s engravings and contemporary everyday objects unique to the artist, the gallery selected carefully. Artur Ramon, curator and author of several publications on the recorder par excellence of Rome, “the aim of the exhibition is twofold: first we want the visitor enters into the world of Piranesi, as if traveling in the late XVIII, and, on the other hand, claim the antique and craft tradition within our sector. “
Trained as an architect, Giovanni Battista Piranesi changed his native Venice to Rome, and his training to become the best portrait of the Roman countryside. His prints are an exercise in technique and exceptional inventiveness throughout the centuries have made the theatrical chronicler of the Italian capital for excellence and do, even today, in force.
The gallery Barcelona is strongly linked to the name of Piranesi since 1990, when they made the first exhibition of prints from the most illustrious Roman by adoption. Since that Giovanni Battista Piranesi. 1720-1778 to present “Piranesi and his world” have happened periodically samples as “Rome by Piranesi view”-curated by Alexis Eudald Solà in 1992 – Dreams of stone in 2002, Piranesi Classic in 2004, Piranesi. Love for Rome in 2006 and the comparative-Milicua Piranesi. Visionary Architecture, in summer 2011. Artur Ramon, director of the gallery, is a leading expert and author of several books and articles on the work of one of the most important writers of the History of Art and the catalog of the exhibition “The Piranesi of Montserrat (2006 ) “also curated.
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