{"id":5568,"date":"2024-05-14T12:36:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mar.ra.it\/evento\/niki-de-saint-phalle\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T15:03:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T15:03:58","slug":"niki-de-saint-phalle","status":"publish","type":"etn","link":"https:\/\/mar.ra.it\/en\/event\/niki-de-saint-phalle\/","title":{"rendered":"NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Curated by Giorgia Salerno<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the 6th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Mosaic in Ravenna, the MAR holds a work of the Franco-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle for the first time in Ravenna. The project, curated by Giorgia Salerno, is a tribute to the Ravenna\u2019s mosaic tradition through a contemporary interpretation, an approach that has become increasingly stabilized in the museum&#8217;s choices about the exhibition with the aim at expanding relations with international cultural institutions and foundations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vanitas\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is the title of the project that displays a large mosaic sculpture depicting a skull, with mirrored glazed tiles and palladium leaves, made by Niki de Saint Phalle in 1988. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 In the exhibited work,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">T\u00eate de Mort I<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Niki de Saint Phalle undervalued the drama of death through the sculpture\u2019s large size and, ironically, affirms the overcoming of the end with the continuity of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mirrored tiles reflect the observer\u2019s image, forcing a direct comparison with the symbol of life\u2019s end, as a\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">memento mori<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, while at the same time restoring the multiplicity of human identity. Refractions of personality that recompose themselves to form a vision as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The work, specifically chosen for Ravenna, the city of mosaics and mausoleums, clearly refers to the iconography of\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vanitas<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and to a theme, the victory of eternal life over death, that is particularly rapresentative of the territory. The city funerary monuments, such as the Mausoleum of Theodoric, the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, the funeral sculpture of Guidarello Guidarelli to Dante&#8217;s Tomb, are examples of how life, culture and historical testimonies have trumphed over earthly death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Niki de Saint Phalle deals with the iconography of the skull and evockes the writing style of ancient works, by not only choosing the mosaic technique but also by using the reflective power of the mirror, an inevitable reference to Byzantine mosaic art of Ravenna, which is characterized primarily by the lyric of light, thanks to the use of vitreous paste and pure gold tiles. The works transcend towards an otherworldly dimension (towards the divine) just as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">T\u00eate de Mort I<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0that moves beyond earthly nature to transmute into eternal life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Niki de Saint Phalle<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">T\u00eate de mort I<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1988, \u00a9NIKI CHARITABLE ART FOUNDATION. \u00a0All rights reserved. Collection \u00a0Niki Charitable Art Foundation, Santee<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curated by Giorgia Salerno For the 6th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Mosaic in Ravenna, the MAR holds a work of&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/mar.ra.it\/en\/event\/niki-de-saint-phalle\/\">Continua a leggere<span> NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3088,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"etn_location":[62],"etn_category":[65],"etn_tags":[],"class_list":["post-5568","etn","type-etn","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","etn_location-mar-museo-darte-della-citta-di-ravenna-en","etn_category-mostre-temporanee-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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