The extraordinary works presented
Once again, after more than fifty years of a brilliant artistic career, Richard Meitner’s work seems poised once again to take on new and intriguing form. The artist has worked for decades with glass, and from very early on, frequently combined it in surprising ways with other materials. With an impressive career also as a highly respected professor in art education, his artworks are presently included in the permanent collections of more than 60 museums throughout the world. The work he will be presenting at this exhibition, to which the artist has given the title “Schizzi Selvaggi”, gives form to his intention to use the noble material glass, paradoxically, “to sketch with”. Gestures, balancing acts, references to painting, dances…These words come to mind when one stands in front of the wall adorned with these schizzi, we feel confronted with a veritable frenzy of meanings. But at the same time, entirely consistent with all his work and intentions, none of the meanings are either singular or easy to formulate.
On the 350th anniversary of the birth of Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757), the project is dedicated to this extraordinary Venetian painter, portraitist and miniaturist, presenting a work by Lilla Tabasso and a publication with texts by Xavier F. Salomon – Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of the Frick Collection in New York.
Featured artists:
Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg, Marcantonio Brandolini d'Adda, Federica Marangoni, Michael Craig-Martin, Ritsue Mishima, Cornelia Parker, Maria Grazia Rosin, Silvano Rubino, Lino Tagliapietra, Giorgio Vigna, Pae White joined by pupils of the "Abate Zanetti" School of Murano
We await for you at the MECC from 9 to 19 March, booth n. 717