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De Dominicis at MAXXI in Rome
Posted in Events in Rome - September 7th, 2010
Till November 7th some Gino De Dominicis selected artworks will be hosted at MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century’s Fine Arts in Rome. This Italian Artist, one of the most controversial Italian character after the second world war, owes his celebrity to his capacity to steer clear of any artistic movement that defined the last 50 years of the Italian history. At the mean time painter, philosopher, architect and sculptor, De Dominicis had been able to maintain an unusual lifelong mystery halo on himself.
His art, defined by a fundamental techniques trans-contamination has often a deep philosophical meaning. One example is the “Immortality second solution (The motionless Universe)”, exhibited for in 1972 at the Venice Biennial in which you can find a Down’s syndrome plagued boy in a corner seating in front of an invisible cube, a rubber ball (falling from two meters height) in the moment before his ground bounce and a stone in movement waiting for. Another philosophical artwork, or event or installation, had been the cocktail organized in Rome in 1973 to celebrate the overtaking of the Second law of thermodynamics. (more…)
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De Dominicis at MAXXI in Rome
Posted in Events in Rome - September 7th, 2010
Till November 7th some Gino De Dominicis selected artworks will be hosted at MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century’s Fine Arts in Rome. This Italian Artist, one of the most controversial Italian character after the second world war, owes his celebrity to his capacity to steer clear of any artistic movement that defined the last 50 years of the Italian history. At the mean time painter, philosopher, architect and sculptor, De Dominicis had been able to maintain an unusual lifelong mystery halo on himself.
His art, defined by a fundamental techniques trans-contamination has often a deep philosophical meaning. One example is the “Immortality second solution (The motionless Universe)”, exhibited for in 1972 at the Venice Biennial in which you can find a Down’s syndrome plagued boy in a corner seating in front of an invisible cube, a rubber ball (falling from two meters height) in the moment before his ground bounce and a stone in movement waiting for. Another philosophical artwork, or event or installation, had been the cocktail organized in Rome in 1973 to celebrate the overtaking of the Second law of thermodynamics. (more…)