“Let’s talk Postmodernity” Exhibition

Robert Blumenthal Gallery

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Robert Blumenthal Gallery presents “Let’s talk Postmodernity”, a selection of works from Robert Blumenthal’s collection.

Postmodern theories developed after the Second World War as a response to the social and political unrests that characterized the Post-war global panorama. Culturally, the reaction was driven by the crisis of Abstract Expressionism and of the same concept of a leading current around which the artistic practice should be shaped. The crisis led to the need of seeing the artwork as an interpreter of the disorder of the time, exiting a pure aesthetic meaning to become the harbinger a polyhedral and complex reality. Around these new ideas, a boundless freedom met a strong social responsibility charging the artist of a new conceptual mission.

These changes affected the collective consciousness so deeply that future social and cultural developments couldn’t abstract from the new principles. Contemporary art is the result of the impact of these new forces on the artistic environment in a never-ending evolution.
Following the path of time and that of society the artwork becomes thus the physical representation of an intimate nature, of the single being relating with the multitude, acquiring its own personality.

This peculiarity is strengthen in the context of the art collection, which can be seen as a mosaic whose final appearance is given by the juxtaposition of its single tiles, the artworks, which exist by their-selves but gain a new significance as a whole and related to each other. Each collection itself represents a homogeneous fragment in the chaotic ensemble that is the contemporary art world.

- Ludovica Capobianco

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from January 29, 2015 to February 27, 2015

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