Traveling Exhibition opens in Miami, August 5, 2012
Celebratory Reception: August 22nd
She seduced the world from the big screen and won a place in the hearts of exceptional artists. Fifty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains an icon for female excellence that continues to inspire the art world.
Through a symbolic relay with Italy and the U.S., on the dates that marked her life, Galleria Ca ‘d’Oro dedicates the exhibition “Marilyn Monroe: Tribute to a Female Icon” to the American actress.
The exhibition showcases a life-size sculpture of Marilyn, wearing a white dress immortalized by Seward Johnson in her most famous pose, an unusually lanky rendition by Valentina De Martini, a naked Marilyn immersed in color by Pablo Echaurren, and pop Interpretation by Ludmilla Radchenko alongside members of the Marilyn series produced by Andy Warhol, those constructed by Mimmo Rotella. The tribute to the American starlet comes to life in an 18-work exhibition that includes paintings, photographs, and sculptures.
The exhibition made its debut in Rome, at the historic Palazzo Wedekind in Piazza Colonna, only a few days after what would have been the stars 86th birthday. Now the exposition travels to the Galleria Ca ‘d’Oro in Coral Gables, Florida, where the inauguration will be held on the date that marks the fiftieth anniversary of Marilyn’s death. For this symbolic reason curators Gloria Porcella and Lamberto Petrecca have chosen the months of June and August for the double launch of the exhibition.
This exhibition is intended not only for those who appreciate the arts, but also for the ultimate Marilyn fan.
August 5th: The exhibition opens in Miami where it will be hosted by Galleria Ca ‘d’Oro in Coral Gables.
August 22nd: Celebratory at 7pm hosted by Galleria Ca ‘d’Oro
THE ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION
ANDY WARHOL – His serial reproduction of Marilyn’s face in the 60s transforms her into a “popular” icon.
MIMMO ROTELLA – His series of décollage praises Hollywood’s brightest stars. Rottella’s works redefine the meaning of Marilyn’s death by constructing works pieced together with popular images of her life.
SEWARD JOHNSON - Considered among the most original artist of our time, Johnson is famous for his realistic, life-sized bronze sculptures that depict everyday characters absorbed in mundane activities. Of great visual impact and recognized for their ability to inspire amazement, his works include a Marilyn immortalized in one of her most famous poses.
LEONARDO HIDALGO – Born in Ecuador, Hidalgo has lived and worked for many years in Miami, where he is considered one of the most effective and perceptive portrait artists of our time. Accomplished in a number of distinct techniques, such as painting, pastels, photography, and computer graphics, Hidalgo portrays his celebrated subjects using vibrant colors.
PABLO ECHAURREN – The works of Echaurren combine a variety of elements: the marked attention to miniaturized detail, the reference to the comic strip, and images of the natural universe. The exhibition presents a naked Marilyn immersed in an explosion of color that marks his signature style.
RENZO NUCARA – Founding member of the Cracking Art Group in 1993, Nucara chooses to work with plastic in order to make a statement on society’s commitment to the environment. His pieces reflect his research of Resinfilm, which consists of layers of resins, pigments, and natural and artificial objects, which become the skeleton of his most recent works of Statofilm.
ERIKA CALESINI – Irresistibly drawn to the expressive value of the subjects, Calesini creates works using discarded materials, such as bicycle part and inner tubes, rescuing them from their fate as landfill. Her process asks the audience to reflect of the value of objects and the part of them that is intrinsically attached to our lives.
VALENTINA DE MARTINI – The works of the talented artist exude elegance and charm, characteristics that are synonymous with the subject of Marilyn Monroe.
CAMILLA ANCILOTTO – Totems that continuously mutate in appearance and color make up the works by Ancilotto. For the Roman artist art is a game with infinite representational possibilities.
MONICA CASALI – Fresh from a recent exhibition at the Galleria Ca’ d’Oro in Miami, Casali reveals a smiling, bright, and colorful Marilyn that is very much in accordance of the Warhol Style.
CRISTIANO CASCELLI – The acute portraits by Cascelli immortalize his subjects in a Pop style using a variety of techniques that showcase his unmistakable talent.
FLORENCE FABRE –Fabre creates lively and captivating images. Her portraits consist of fragments of photographs that she reconstructs in order to offer a new perspective and give a new identity to her subject.
FABIO FERRONE VIOLA – Ferrone exemplifies the Pop movement by depicting prevalent icons with his clever use of American soda cans.
MASSIMO LUPOLI – Lupoli extrapolates objects and symbols of our everyday lives from their original contexts and places them in diverse setting that give them new significance. The work presented in the exhibition consists of a photograph superimposed on a stretch of the artist’s brushes.
FLAVIA MANTOVAN – The icons of our time are the undisputed protagonists of Mantovan’s works. Characters whose faces almost liquefy under the color of cola and a stain that threatens to take over the breakdown symbolizes that everyone, including our celebrated stars, is doomed
DARIA PALADINO – Trained in Rome and Paris, Paladino’s artistic trajectory carries her to the Lazio Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. Her study focuses primarily on portraits.
LUDMILLA RADCHENKO – Radchenko references Pop Realism in her elaborate digital works, photos and scans, which are combined with a distinct material painting to create portraits of icons of contemporary life.
MARCELLO REBOANI – The portrait genre constitutes the leitmotif of Reboani’s artistic career. His works speak to the audience of the contemporary world through a parade of famous and anonymous faces, which allows him to further his investigation of human nature.
FABIANA ROSCIOLI – Renowned painter and photographer, she interprets the beauty of Marilyn in a succession of images depicting nude women.
SASHA TORRISI – The versatile painter and musician (former singer and guitar player for the Italian band Timoria) uses a Pop Art technique that renders his favorite subjects in a particular light, in which they appear pure, smooth, florescent, and beyond any physical authenticity.
ABOUT GALLERIA CA'd'Oro :
Since 1970, Galleria Ca’ d’Oro (House of Gold) has become known as one of the leading contemporary art galleries in Italy. During Art Week and Art Basel Miami 2010, Galleria Ca’ d’Oro made it’s mark in Miami with the most talked about public art installation, the Regeneration Art Project, with the famous pink snails. Today the gallery continues to bring its experience and expertise to the US promoting Italian and European contemporary art with passion and enthusiasm.
Galleria Ca’ d’Oro offers not only some of the most important works by artists of the 20th, and 21st centuries, but also offers personalized art advisory, the implementation of public art installations and museum quality exhibitions.
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