A dead “nature”, now polluted by the violence and seriality of human production, is room in the marble basket with which the sculptor Jago is openly confronted with the Fruit basket by Caravaggio, one of the most iconic masterpieces in the collection of the Veneranda Ambrosiana library in Milan.
From 8 May to 4 November the work of Jacopo Cardillo (Jago) will turn the language of tradition into a rough and current reflection, restoring a basket full of weapons, rather than fruit.
“Dead Nature”, works in the middle of the dialogue entitled Jago and Caravaggio: two looks on the transience of lifeEdited by Maria Teresa Benedetti and organized in collaboration with Arthemisia, was born from a deep study into the concept of fragility carried out by the artist who uses Marble as Nobel Material to tackle fundamental issues in the era that lives, share the production process.
If in the Fruit basket From Caravaggio, a masterpiece of Ambrosiana, the beauty of ripe fruit becomes a metaphor for the passage and the CAW of Life, Jago pushes this reflection behind it and shows objects that are built to kill, series products, but terribly real, to date integrated part of our existence.
“With this work – the artist explains – I wanted to investigate the silent violence that our society penetrates, the one who manifests itself not only in armed conflicts, but also in the way we deal with the other, in refusal, in daily overwhelming. A basket full of weapons tells us that the fruit of our time is no longer, but destruction.”
Michelangelo Merisi known as Caravaggio, Fruit basket, about 1595, Oil on Canvas, Milan, Veneranda Library Ambrosiana, Pinacoteca (© Veneranda Library Ambrosiana / Mondadori Portfolio)
A message that of Jago, eternal, just like marble, sustainable material par excellence, chosen to tell the wounds of the present. This time too, the sculptural gesture refers to the history of Italian art, while he breaks through a world where death has become a consumer product.
What remains of life as time and people consume?
“Nature not idealized, yet innocent, of Caravaggio – says the director of the Pinacoteca Msgr. Alberto Rocca – is a starting point to create a basket that is no longer full of the fruits of the earth, but of refined and artificial instruments of the language of the language of the language of the language of the language of the language of the length library library library library library library library library library The language of the language of the language of the language of language of the language of the language of the language of the language of the language of the language of the language of the language of the language of the language of the language of the Language of Art, Stimulating Art, Intense and Current Criticism. Painting from the seventeenth century, Jago conducts his research into what our human beings make and chooses choosing the precious context of the Ambrosian Pinacoteca.
The visits are possible, starting from 8 May from Monday to Sunday from 10 to 18 (the ticket office closes at 5.30 pm). Closed Wednesday
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