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Francesco Arena, Cassetta, 2023
Francesco Arena, Cassetta, 2023
Francesco Arena, Cassetta, 2023

Francesco Arena

Cassetta, 2023
bronze
45 x 31 x 63 cm
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Francesco Arena, Prisma con perimetro, 2018
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Francesco Arena, Prisma con perimetro, 2018
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Francesco Arena, Prisma con perimetro, 2018
A Marat is the three-dimensional realisation of the wooden box that is the focal centrepiece of Jaques-Louis David's 1793 painting La Mort de Marat. In the painting, this old wooden...
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A Marat is the three-dimensional realisation of the wooden box that is the focal centrepiece of Jaques-Louis David's 1793 painting La Mort de Marat. In the painting, this old wooden parallelepiped is used by the murdered Marat as a holder for the papers and inkwell he used to write while immersed in the bath. David's painting is preserved at Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. The mirror-polished bronze sculpture reflects everything around the work by sucking it into it, making it almost invisible.


Cassetta è la realizzazione tridimensionale della cassetta di legno centro focale del dipinto La Mort de Marat di Jaques-Louis David del 1793, nel dipinto questo parallelepipedo di legno vecchio viene utilizzato dal Marat assassinato come supporto per i fogli e il calamaio che utilizzava per scrivere mentre era immerso nella vasca da bagno. Il dipinto di David è conservato presso Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. La scultura in bronzo lucidato a specchio riflette tutto ciò che è intorno all’opera risucchiandolo all’interno di questa rendendola quasi invisibile.

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Exhibitions

- Francesco Arena. Il fulmine governa ogni cosa, Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, 22 September - 07 December 2023

Literature

- Der Blitz steuert alles / Il fulmine governa ogni cosa, Lenz, Milano, 2024, illustrated in colour, from pp. 33 to 38, 40, 53

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