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Emilio Tadini
Color & Co., 1969
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 240 cm
Color & Co., 1969
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 240 cm
Press Release
Gli Abitanti del Museo n. 2 Emilio Tadini
Color & Co.,1969 / Archeologia, 1973 / Museo dell’uomo, 1974/ L’occhio della pittura, 1978
Opening: November 19, 2009
November 20, 2009 – January 16, 2010
Color & Co.,1969 / Archeologia, 1973 / Museo dell’uomo, 1974/ L’occhio della pittura, 1978
Opening: November 19, 2009
November 20, 2009 – January 16, 2010
The Marconi Foundation is pleased to announce the second round of the new series of exhibitions, Gli Abitanti del Museo, dedicated to a selection of works by Emilio Tadini, Color & Co. del 1969, Archeologia del 1973, Museo dell’uomo del 1974 e L’occhio della pittura del 1978, that have been displayed since the Seventies in several solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
These works by Tadini have been presented in several shows, particularly representative of Italian art, such as: 20 Artistas Italianos at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, in 1971, Arte Italiana 1960-1982 at the Hayward Gallery, London, in 1982 and Italics. Arte Italiana fra tradizione e rivoluzione 1968-2008 at Palazzo Grassi, Venice in 2008.
Furthermore, they have been included in various restrospectives dedicated to the artist like the touring show held in 1995 and 1996 in three German museums: Institut Mathildenhoe, Darmstadt, Kulturhistorisches Museum, Stralsund and Bochum Museum, Bochum and the exhibition held at Palazzo Reale, Milan, in 2001. With this new series of exhibitions Gli Abitanti del Museo, Giorgio Marconi aims at being more specific and "provocative", and he wishes to revise his forty-years activity at Studio Marconi (1965-1992), starting from the analysis of the works displayed in the museums and a re-reading of the essays – more or less recent – that have been written on the subject.
Picking up the idea of Studio Marconi's “magazines” published in the Seventies-Eighties, the Quaderni della Fondazione Marconi will accompany the exhibitions Abitanti del Museo.
Issue no. 2 will be dedicated to Tadini and it will include a selection of critical texts published in the past, among which the ones written by Guido Ballo, Marco Livingstone and Roberto Sanesi, together with most recent essays by Arturo Carlo Quintavalle and Klaus Wolbert about Color & Co., Archeologia, Museo dell’uomo and L’occhio della pittura.
With these words Klaus Wolbert described Emilio Tadini: “a talented man of letters who's been successful also as an essayist, a critic and a journalist; in painting he loves to define himself as a supporter of an enlightened rational and thoughtful vision of the world, as well as of the issues that raise his interest.”
These works by Tadini have been presented in several shows, particularly representative of Italian art, such as: 20 Artistas Italianos at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, in 1971, Arte Italiana 1960-1982 at the Hayward Gallery, London, in 1982 and Italics. Arte Italiana fra tradizione e rivoluzione 1968-2008 at Palazzo Grassi, Venice in 2008.
Furthermore, they have been included in various restrospectives dedicated to the artist like the touring show held in 1995 and 1996 in three German museums: Institut Mathildenhoe, Darmstadt, Kulturhistorisches Museum, Stralsund and Bochum Museum, Bochum and the exhibition held at Palazzo Reale, Milan, in 2001. With this new series of exhibitions Gli Abitanti del Museo, Giorgio Marconi aims at being more specific and "provocative", and he wishes to revise his forty-years activity at Studio Marconi (1965-1992), starting from the analysis of the works displayed in the museums and a re-reading of the essays – more or less recent – that have been written on the subject.
Picking up the idea of Studio Marconi's “magazines” published in the Seventies-Eighties, the Quaderni della Fondazione Marconi will accompany the exhibitions Abitanti del Museo.
Issue no. 2 will be dedicated to Tadini and it will include a selection of critical texts published in the past, among which the ones written by Guido Ballo, Marco Livingstone and Roberto Sanesi, together with most recent essays by Arturo Carlo Quintavalle and Klaus Wolbert about Color & Co., Archeologia, Museo dell’uomo and L’occhio della pittura.
With these words Klaus Wolbert described Emilio Tadini: “a talented man of letters who's been successful also as an essayist, a critic and a journalist; in painting he loves to define himself as a supporter of an enlightened rational and thoughtful vision of the world, as well as of the issues that raise his interest.”
Among the themes that the artist developed between 1969 and 1974, at the first and second floor of the Marconi Foundation, there are Color & Co., Archeologia e Museo dell’uomo, from which 15 works have already been displayed in the museums mentioned above.
In Color & Co, as Wolbert wrote, “Tadini calls into question what a painting is in its pictorial substance and which is the factor determining that a work is an artwork"; painting is reduced to a series of pots and colour basins where colours are dissociated from images and where their materiality takes shape and "shapes" through various colour combinations: there is no metaphysical implication, only the object is represented as such.
In Archeologia, a series of objects are staged in the pictorial space: an armchair, a plant, a mask and a dummy correspond to memories.
For Tadini, in fact, “archeologia” means to recall memories; in this regard, Quintavalle wrote: “Archeologia is first of all a deconstruction, as dream and painting dissociate the objects, isolating them, then it becomes a research of different and significant associations, a displacement”.
In Museo dell’uomo the scene widens out, characters are multiplied and objects float in the air in every direction, loosing completely their meaning and function. It's chaos with no axiety or sadness: a simple statement of the present human condition.
The words drawn from Tadini's texts are here included in the painting as if they were images, references to the literary universe of the artist and writer.
Taking for example, a big-sized painting titled “Festa e forma del cibo”, Quintavalle wrote: “Tadini intends painting as a regression to the origins, and therefore he aims at giving back to apparent disorder a different order, governed by reason. Maybe this is why the title suggests the primary need for food, but also its transformation into obsessive objects of the consumer society."
In Color & Co, as Wolbert wrote, “Tadini calls into question what a painting is in its pictorial substance and which is the factor determining that a work is an artwork"; painting is reduced to a series of pots and colour basins where colours are dissociated from images and where their materiality takes shape and "shapes" through various colour combinations: there is no metaphysical implication, only the object is represented as such.
In Archeologia, a series of objects are staged in the pictorial space: an armchair, a plant, a mask and a dummy correspond to memories.
For Tadini, in fact, “archeologia” means to recall memories; in this regard, Quintavalle wrote: “Archeologia is first of all a deconstruction, as dream and painting dissociate the objects, isolating them, then it becomes a research of different and significant associations, a displacement”.
In Museo dell’uomo the scene widens out, characters are multiplied and objects float in the air in every direction, loosing completely their meaning and function. It's chaos with no axiety or sadness: a simple statement of the present human condition.
The words drawn from Tadini's texts are here included in the painting as if they were images, references to the literary universe of the artist and writer.
Taking for example, a big-sized painting titled “Festa e forma del cibo”, Quintavalle wrote: “Tadini intends painting as a regression to the origins, and therefore he aims at giving back to apparent disorder a different order, governed by reason. Maybe this is why the title suggests the primary need for food, but also its transformation into obsessive objects of the consumer society."