A new exhibition, entitled ‘Contemporary Renaissance’, courtesy Casa Masaccio Arte Contemporanea and MK Search Art revolves around the historic San Giovanni Valdarno.
This industrial town preserves its cultural and artistic heritage. During a month-long artist residency project, four contemporary Indian artists drew inspiration from the culture and site- specific aspects there. They all soaked in the serene surroundings, nature, architecture, and interiors of spaces, caught in a time warp, as well as people and their peculiar customs.
A curatorial note by Veeranganakumari Solanki explains: “The Tuscan town in the historic district of Arezzo traces a personal and significant association with art, culture and architecture. Being the birth place of the famous Renaissance artist Masaccio (born 1401), there’s a significant and protracted relationship with changing art movements and practices that integrate themselves within the inherent art and culture of this town.” Here’s a quick look at the participating artists’ artistic processes and works presented:
This industrial town preserves its cultural and artistic heritage. During a month-long artist residency project, four contemporary Indian artists drew inspiration from the culture and site- specific aspects there. They all soaked in the serene surroundings, nature, architecture, and interiors of spaces, caught in a time warp, as well as people and their peculiar customs.
A curatorial note by Veeranganakumari Solanki explains: “The Tuscan town in the historic district of Arezzo traces a personal and significant association with art, culture and architecture. Being the birth place of the famous Renaissance artist Masaccio (born 1401), there’s a significant and protracted relationship with changing art movements and practices that integrate themselves within the inherent art and culture of this town.” Here’s a quick look at the participating artists’ artistic processes and works presented:
- Remen Chopra’s work manifests the composed collective of her imagination, driven by her search for a new sense of harmony in a post modern world harried by fragmented confusion. It resembles a detailed report of her impressions and connections with the intensity of the laws of universe. These complexities and layers of the universe become paths of departure, and central to the course.
- Vibha Galhotra’s creations from her series 'Orbis Unum’ try to replace, deconstruct and dissolve the existential thought of the world of differences, religion, hierarchy, borders and power. She has drawn from the chastity of white to re-design the flags for ‘One World’, where the cultural and social symbols of geo-political places are denoted but not differentiated.
- Sonia Jose’s work during the residency at Casa Masaccio reflects impressions of her immediate surroundings - the architecture and diverse history of the associations of Valdarno with other Italian towns, signifying the connection of the contemporary re-birth (Renaissance).
- In Monali Meher’s art, the emphasis is on the surrounding and its symbolic nature, reflected in her photographs and video works.
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