VILLA LONTANA

This exhibition at Villa Lontana launches a new collaborative exchange between the Fondazione Dino ed Ernesta Santarelli and contemporary art. Through creating a series of intimate juxtapositions, we hope to draw attention to the performative and sculptural elements that are inherent in classical statuary and architectural fragments, to the potential of being experienced within the context and concerns of contemporary practice.
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SCULPTURELESS SCULPTURE brings film and other projected work with selected artworks and fragments from the Fondazione Santarelli. John Baldessari, I Am Making Art (1971) and Baldessari Sings LeWitt (1973), Elisabetta Benassi, Son of Niobe (2013), Ketty La Rocca, Appendice Per Una Supplica (1972), Mario Merz, Lumaca (1970) and Ad Reinhardt Travel Slides (1952-1967) will be shown alongside a selection of works from the Fondazione Santarelli including: Giove Eliopolitano III AD, Greek female head I BC, arm fragment II AD, torso of Alexander the Great III AD, fragment of striated sarcophagus II AD, Pinax with theatre masks I AD, Etruscan high relief of Perseus and Medusa V BC and a cleric from Palmyra III AD.

Installation view of SCULPTURELESS SCULPTURE. Ad Reinhardt, ’Travel Slides’, 1952-1967.

Installation view of SCULPTURELESS SCULPTURE. Ketty La Rocca, ’Appendice Per Una Supplica’, 1972.

Male bust, II AD; bust of a Palmyrene woman, III AD; torso of Alexander the Great, III AD; fountain mask, XVII AD.

Capital from Frederick II era with two-headed eagles, XII AD. Column in African marble, I AD.

Torso of Alexander the Great, III AD. Fountain mask, XVII AD. Bust of a Palmyrene woman, III AD. Head of a Palmyrene cleric, III AD. Capital of pilaster in granite of Aswan, I AD.

Selected works from the Santarelli Collection and Ketty La Rocca, ’Appendice Per Una Supplica’, 1972.

Mario Merz, ’Lumaca’, 1970. Selected works from the Santarelli Collection.

Virile head, I AD; child of Flavian era, I AD; Giove Eliopolitano, III AD.

Head of a Palmyrene cleric, III AD.

Selected works from the Santarelli Collection.

Funeral monument ‘kline’ from the Trajan era, II AD. Capital from Frederick II era with two-headed eagles, XII AD. Column in African marble, I AD.

John Baldessari, ‘I Am Making Art’, 1971.

John Baldessari, Baldessari Sings LeWitt, 1972.

Elisabetta Benassi, ‘Son of Niobe’, 2013.

Installation view of SCULPTURELESS SCULPTURE.

'Vitrine', installation view of SCULPTURELESS SCULPTURE.

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