The wound from medieval art to contemporary art. From Francesco da Rimini to Lucio Fontana.

From November 30, 2019 to February 29, 2020, the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Jesi in collaboration with the Museo Diocesano di Jesi will present an exhibition entitled La ferita tra umano e divino. Ancient and contemporary art compared from Francesco da Rimini to Lucio Fontana.

The exhibition, in the rooms of Palazzo Bisaccioni, will revolve around the theme of the wound frommedieval art to contemporary art: fifteen works by Francesco and Giuliano da Rimini, Nicola di Maestro Antonio, Lorenzo de Carris, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, Maria Lai and Ettore Frani from important Italian museum venues will be on display.

The exhibition aims to propose the theme of the wound in an interdisciplinary approach: in the West it is a symbol of human frailty and physical pain, but also of a passage to a beyond; in the latter case, the wound becomes an opening to mystery, to another world. In a continuous dialectic between the human and the divine, some wounds have marked culture, spirituality.

Starting from the wound of Christ, some masterpieces of medieval and Renaissance art will be exhibited, such as the Crucifixion with Virgin Annunciate by Francesco da Rimini, the Crucifixion by Lorenzo de Carris known as Judas, the Face of Christ by Giuliano da Rimini, and the Dead Christ in the sarcophagus supported by two angels by Nicola di Maestro Antonio.

In contemporary art, the wound inspired the art of Lucio Fontana, where the cut becomes the access to a beyond, Alberto Burri and Maria Lai, who interpreted it as an object of stitching and recomposition to create new harmonies and conceptual links.

Ettore Frani was commissioned for the exhibition to create a work interpreted by the artist through intense and dramatic chiaroscuro. Frani represented the point of view of the present, a confrontation with the archetype of the wound to give a transfigured vision of the theme that tends toward the ineffable.

The aim of the exhibition is to reflect on human finiteness as a possible gateway to a beyond, so that wounds can be transformed into a passage leading to trust in the world and in others.

For info: www.fondazionecrj.it

Hours: Monday through Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3:30 to 7:30 p.m.

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Image: Maria Lai, Stitched Pages (1981; cotton thread and cardboard; Rovereto, Mart)

The wound from medieval art to contemporary art. From Francesco da Rimini to Lucio Fontana.

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