PAOLO CANEVARI | mostro | PROJECTED ARTISTS – Obiettivo Roma: II/V
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The Museo Barracco is undoubtedly a source of inspiration for an artist who has always worked, as I have, on the idea of art as a reinterpretation of classical tradition, and whose breadth and eclecticism involves a fusion of different means (sculpture and space, painting and image) that reshapes its more academic significance, thereby repositioning the work within a more tangential conception of history.
The works are sustained by a spirit evoked both in their image and, at the same time, an idea of “making” that doesn’t seek to rediscover noble materials such as marble, gold, bronze, granite, etc. but accentuates the weakness of their significance in a contemporary landscape. This effect comes about through the use of ‘poor’ materials as well as installations that tend towards the physical without being object-based.
“For me, the rich appreciation of form in the “Museum” context does not therefore indicate the presence of a monumental and uplifting totality – but rather fragmentation, bearing witness, and memory”.
Paolo Canevari, April 1995
In the year of its 90th anniversary, the Museo Barracco aligns itself with cutting-edge practice by opening up its spaces up to living artists, including those at an early stage in their careers. Reviving the city’s interest in the prestigious institution thanks to exhibitions that can thrust its architecture into the present day, the Museum provides a current, if not direct source of inspiration and exchange for contemporary artists.
Paolo Canevari has designed his exhibitive/installation project at the Museo Barracco with this same idea of exchange and dialogue in mind. The title, Mostro, is a play on words in Italian – mostro can mean both “I show” and “monster” – which draws on the dual significance of the artist exposing themselves, in the first person, in a museum context, as well as the “monstrous” nature of the work exhibited.
The catalogue features an essay by Mario Codognato.
The exhibition at the Museo Barracco will be accompanied by projections of the artist’s work on the facade of Palazzo Braschi, in front of the museum, on the day of the exhibition opening, Thursday 22 June 1995, as well as on the following two days, Friday 23 and Saturday 24. The projections will run from 21.30 to midnight. Exceptionally, the museum will remain open late on these two days, until 23.00.
Both the projections and exhibition are part of the extensive of programme of events that is Projected Artists – Obiettivo: Roma.
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exhibition catalogue.
PAOLO CANEVARI
projected artists | obiettivo: roma II/V | mostro
exhibition catalogue
tipo-lito aurelia 72, rome 1995
more exhibitions.
more exhibitions by PAOLO CANEVARI with STUDIO STEFANIA MISCETTI.
BABIES ARE KNOCKING
group show
may 27th, 2021 - october 2, 2021
BUON DOMANI - A BETTER TOMORROW
group show
december 9th, 2010 - january 29th, 2011
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burning mein kampf
october 10th-18th, 2008
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continenti
may 29th - october 27th, 2007
ANABLEPS
group show
march 9th - april 28th, 2000
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campo
june 11th - september, 1998
ERJAUTZ - KIENZER -
CANEVARI - TRANQUILLI
MANFRED ERJAUTZ, MICHAEL KIENZER, PAOLO CANEVARI, ADRIAN TRANQUILLI
february 19th - march 21st, 1998
CANEVARI - TRANQUILLI
CANEVARI e TRANQUILLI all'istituto austriaco
march 18th - april 24th, 1998
austrian goethe institute, rome
PAOLO CANEVARI - YOKO ONO
new year's eve 1997 event
piazza del popolo, rome
december 31st, 1997
PRIMA PUNTATA
video projections
palazzo delle esposizioni, rome
december 21st, 1994
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voto
may 19th - september, 1994
VIDEO VIDEO VIDEO
video exhibition
march 19th, 1994
goethe institute, STUDIO STEFANIA MISCETTI
PALLE
group show
december 10th, 1993 - january 1994
ORSI - COLAZZO - PEILL - CANEVARI
4 tempi
february 1st-3rd-5th-6th, 1993
PAOLO CANEVARI
camere d'aria
june 11th - september, 1991
more catalogues.
more catalogues by PAOLO CANEVARI with STUDIO STEFANIA MISCETTI.
BABIES ARE KNOCKING
exhibition catalogue
SSM, rome 2021
PAOLO CANEVARI
nothing from nothing
catalogue of the exhibition
mondadori electa, milan 2007
PAOLO CANEVARI
PAOLO CANEVARI
monograph
charta, milan 2002
ANABLEPS
catalogue of the exhibition
tipo-lito aurelia 72, rome 2000
ERJAUTZ - KIENZER - CANEVARI - TRANQUILLI
MANFRED ERJAUTZ, MICHAEL KIENZER, PAOLO CANEVARI, ADRIAN TRANQUILLI
exhibition catalogue
tipo-lito aurelia 72, rome 1998
PAOLO CANEVARI
note
works on paper
studio tipografico roma,
rome 1995
PAOLO CANEVARI
lupa romana
silkscreen
rome, 1993
PAOLO CANEVARI
memoria mia
artist book
tipografia aurelia 72, rome 1992