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Franco Vaccari
Poster della mostra, Editions de et sur Marcel Duchamp, Givaudon, Paris, 1967.
Esplosione nucleare alla presenza di militari, Deserto del Nevada, 1955
Diptych (photographic reprint on aluminium and plexiglass), 2009
140 x 200 cm
3 ed. (1 of the artist)
Poster della mostra, Editions de et sur Marcel Duchamp, Givaudon, Paris, 1967.
Esplosione nucleare alla presenza di militari, Deserto del Nevada, 1955
Diptych (photographic reprint on aluminium and plexiglass), 2009
140 x 200 cm
3 ed. (1 of the artist)
Press Release
Franco Vaccari
Meta-Critic Art
Opening: May 4, 2011
May 5 – June 4, 2011
Meta-Critic Art
Opening: May 4, 2011
May 5 – June 4, 2011
The Marconi Foundation is pleased to present the exhibition Meta-Critic Art by Franco Vaccari.
“Franco Vaccari from 1969 has been recognised as the author of the aesthetic formula Exhibition in real time and with his book Duchamp messo a nudo. Dai ready-made alla finanza creativa he anticipated the fatal correspondence between the art world and the out of control finance world, where the market is the unique guarantor of value.
So, Franco Vaccari is among those few who try to unmask aesthetics as a myth, supporting the so-called realismo concettuale based on a phenomenology of metropolitan sociality and the meta-artistic and meta-critic of postmodern aesthetics. A deicated listener and observer, Vaccari pointed out new settings, disclosing unknown details and links." (Viana Conti: Franco Vaccari-Arte e profezia. Dalla forza lavoro al bagliore dell’oro)
At the first floor of the Marconi Foundation will be shown some works realised in 2009: following his cognitive methodology Franco Vaccari presents his series of dyptichs, revealing new analogies, both for the general public and for the insiders, between the production of value in the work of Duchamp and the so-called Creative Finance of today.
At the second floor of the exhibition space the artist will present new works especially made for the occasion where he highlights formal connections between Joseph Beuys and the Korean leader Kim Il Sung.
“Franco Vaccari from 1969 has been recognised as the author of the aesthetic formula Exhibition in real time and with his book Duchamp messo a nudo. Dai ready-made alla finanza creativa he anticipated the fatal correspondence between the art world and the out of control finance world, where the market is the unique guarantor of value.
So, Franco Vaccari is among those few who try to unmask aesthetics as a myth, supporting the so-called realismo concettuale based on a phenomenology of metropolitan sociality and the meta-artistic and meta-critic of postmodern aesthetics. A deicated listener and observer, Vaccari pointed out new settings, disclosing unknown details and links." (Viana Conti: Franco Vaccari-Arte e profezia. Dalla forza lavoro al bagliore dell’oro)
At the first floor of the Marconi Foundation will be shown some works realised in 2009: following his cognitive methodology Franco Vaccari presents his series of dyptichs, revealing new analogies, both for the general public and for the insiders, between the production of value in the work of Duchamp and the so-called Creative Finance of today.
At the second floor of the exhibition space the artist will present new works especially made for the occasion where he highlights formal connections between Joseph Beuys and the Korean leader Kim Il Sung.
Already in 1977 (exhibition Maestri e amici cercando at Galleria Lorenzelli in Milan) Vaccari, using a similar research method, picked out unexpected connections between the aura of Beuys and the personality cult of Kim II, as they both were objects of worship.
Still today it’s difficult to free ourselves from these myths, as the economic paradoxes of the art market and the obsessive fanaticism of the government ceremonies in South Korea. Luckily, as shown by the photostrips taken by Vaccari at the Gwanju Biennal in Korea and exhibited here, the love of the parents for their children is still alive everywhere.
On this occasion the Quaderno della Fondazione Marconi no. 6 will be published, a collection of notes by the artsits, critical essays and photos of the works exhibited.
Still today it’s difficult to free ourselves from these myths, as the economic paradoxes of the art market and the obsessive fanaticism of the government ceremonies in South Korea. Luckily, as shown by the photostrips taken by Vaccari at the Gwanju Biennal in Korea and exhibited here, the love of the parents for their children is still alive everywhere.
On this occasion the Quaderno della Fondazione Marconi no. 6 will be published, a collection of notes by the artsits, critical essays and photos of the works exhibited.