In Rome Emilio Isgrò is the ? "Protagonist 2024?" at the National Gallery

The National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome presents the Artist at GNAM initiative that proposes, starting with Emilio Isgrò: Protagonist 2024, a program of “visiting artists” conceived with the formula “one year, one artist, one room.” As happens in some international institutions, the museum will “host” an Italian artist for a year, organizing a series of meetings and exhibiting a significant selection of his works in a room. The initiative, promoted and organized by GNAM Director Renata Cristina Mazzantini, in collaboration withArchivio Emilio Isgrò, thanks to the contribution of Intesa Sanpaolo and Techbau, main sponsors, with the support of Borghese Contemporary Hotel, technical sponsor, offers theopportunity for the museum’s public to interact with the protagonists of Italian contemporary art, and for scholars, as well as students from the Valle Giulia Academies and faculties, to touch upon and learn more about the artist’s work.

The figure of Emilio Isgrò, one of the most influential figures in Italian culture, already celebrated at GNAM with an important anthological exhibition in 2013 and present in the museum’s collections, has been selected for 2024 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the “Cancellatura”: a radical artistic gesture that revolutionized the language of art internationally. It is the artistic gesture that distinguishes Isgrò’s work: it starts from the word and sustains memory, but has nothing to do with “Cancel Culture,” which, on the contrary, it openly contrasts.

For Artist at GNAM, Isgrò created the work Isgrò cancels Isgrò, with the erasure of Autocurriculum, his autobiographical novel, which will be donated to the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Beginning May 14, in addition, Isgrò, will teach a series of Erasing Lessons open to the public on a seasonal basis, conceived as workshops intended for scholars and students, where he will teach how to make use of the “paintbrush” as a selective filter with which to isolate the essential.

Erasing Lessons will be accompanied by invitation-only evenings devoted to Reflections on Erasing, a series of meetings involving literary figures, poets, journalists and writers, who will be called upon to recount their autobiographical relationship with the act of erasing. These meetings will offer the audience a thread through the complex production of an artist who is also a poet, novelist and playwright.

For all information, you can visit the official website of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art.

In Rome Emilio Isgrò is the ? "Protagonist 2024?" at the National Gallery

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