Installation de l’exposition de Ron Mueck à la Fondation Cartier, 07 juin 2023

The works of Ron Mueck, an Australian artist born in Melbourne in 1958, are distinguished by their astonishing realism. His career began as a contributor at a television station, where he learned special effects techniques and animated models, fundamental to his future art. His first significant work, a giant sculpture of his father naked, was exhibited in 1996 in London, marking the beginning of an international artistic journey.

THE WORKS OF RON MUECK

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THE CERAMICS OF GALILEO CHINI BETWEEN ART NOUVEAU AND DECO

Galielo Chini’s ceramics reveal the work of a multifaceted artist, the inventor of modern Italian ceramics from the end of the 19th century.

Galileo Chini personifies that epochal transition from historical tradition to modernity, that moment in which the legacy of high artistic craftsmanship gave way to the inevitable need to confront a national and international market in constant search of novelty.
Chini belonged to a generation that had to come to terms with a series of epochal changes that brought the question of the relationship between art and industry to the attention of contemporary critical debate. His ceramics are certainly works of art, but also the sign of a changing world.

The ceramics of Galileo Chini

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THE PAINTERS OF REALITY. TRUTH AND ILLUSION BETWEEN THE 17TH AND 20TH CENTURIES

There was a time when a group of artists, called the reality painters, raged against the outcomes of modernism to defend and recover the great pictorial tradition between truth and illusion, from Caravaggio to Spanish and Flemish painting.

The group of artists debuted in 1947 and brought together some of the most important artistic personalities of the time: Gregorio Sciltian, Pietro Annigoni, Xavier, Antonio Bueno, who were later joined by Alfredo Serri, Giovanni Accie Carlo Guarnieri and Giorgio de Chirico, the father of Metaphysics, who consolidated relationships of esteem with the entire group.

The Reality Painters

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