an exhibition project in Brescia
After the ‘Incancellabile Vittoria’ (Undeletable Victory), the installation to celebrate the return of the Vittoria Alata (‘Winged Victory’) to Brescia, Emilio Isgrò strengthens his bond with the city with a new project. The new exhibition project, until January 23, 2023, involves the most important sites of the Brescia Roman Archaeological Park, the Museum of Santa Giulia and the FS station of the Brescia subway; the Viridarium, the Renaissance Cloister, the Capitolium and the Roman Theater. Considered among the innovators of the Italian artistic language after World War II, Emilio Isgrò invented erasure sixty years ago as a new language of communication, as a contemporary art form and as a way of interpreting content from a different perspective.
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The exhibition ‘Isgrò deletes Brixia’, curated by Marco Bazzini, starts from the Capitolium’s central hall, which hosts the work Virgil’s Bees. A multitude of bees in flight “erases” the inscriptions on Roman epigraphs on the wall, thanks to futuristic digital techniques, which generate vivid images in motion. The Santa Giulia Museum hosts three more episodes of the exhibition project. On the lawn of the Renaissance Cloister, one can encounter The Harmonium of Mad Larks, a monumental musical instrument, on the perimeter of which runs a sequence of piano keys. This work, presented for the very first time in Brescia, is produced by the Brescia Musei Foundation in co-production with Arte Sella, the important contemporary art park in nature in Val di Sella, Valsugana, (TN), which, at the end of the exhibition, will house the work permanently. The Santa Giulia Museum exhibition rooms will also host an unprecedented cycle of paintings entitled ‘Brixia like Athens.’ Thirteen large canvases where the illustrated pages of a book on the daily life of an ancient Greek polis have been erased blank. Emilio Isgrò’s intervention in Brescia represents an important and incisive contribution to public art to enhance the city’s spaces ahead of the season of the Italian Capital of Culture in 2023. The exhibition project ‘Isgrò deletes Brixia’ is a production of Fondazione Brescia Musei and the Municipality of Brescia, in collaboration with the Emilio Isgrò Archive, Arte Sella, Centro Teatrale Bresciano and Gruppo Brescia Mobilità. (Assia Karaguiozova) Bresciamusei.com
