CLEGG & GUTTMANN – MODERNISMO ITALIANO
2019-08-19Clegg & Guttmann’s constant artistic research, which draws on the archives of history to give shape to complex ideas and concepts, recreates the context in which Modernism developed in Italy, and it does so with powerful emotional overtones on the three foors of the gallery. It examines a period of great scientifc discoveries and philosophical speculation, of social and political change, of rapid industrial progress, and of creativity in art and literature, but also of ideological uncertainties and the rise of populism – many aspects that overlap with what we see in the world today. “A hundred years after the birth of Modernism”, the artists explain, “we fnd ourselves in a state of profound uncertainty about what answers to give to the most fundamental questions of ethics, aesthetics and politics”.
Clegg & Guttmann’s “modernist” reconstruction appears in a choral visual format with texts, images, objects and sounds that go back to some of the great names of the time. It starts in 1890 with Segantini’s Divisionism and then moves on to Luigi Russolo’s Futurist sound experiments, to the literary experiments of Giovanni Papini and Italo Svevo, reaching all the way to the visionary mathematician Bruno de Finetti’s theory of probability in the 1930s.
Opposite – Apples in a Chrome Bowl, 2019
Exhibition runs through to September 26th, 2019
Lia Rumma Gallery
Via Stilicone, 19
20154 Milan
Italy
