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AT FONDAZIONE PRADA: L'IMAGE VOLEE | All | Antonia

AT FONDAZIONE PRADA: L'IMAGE VOLEE

The most recent exhibition to see at the high-profile Fondazione Prada is “L’image volée,” or The Stolen Image, a group show curated by artist Thomas Demand. Within a showcase designed by sculptor Manfred Pernice, the show stretches out over two levels, covering the Nord gallery and the Cinema. It runs through Aug. 28. The exhibit includes more than 90 works produced by over 60 artists from 1820 until today. Demand’s idea was to show and explore how we all rely on pre-existing models, and how artists have always referred to existing imagery to make their own. Questioning the boundaries between originality, conceptual inventiveness and the culture of the copy, the project focuses on theft, authorship, annexation and the creative potential of such pursuits. The first section of the exhibition displays photographs, paintings and films in which the stolen or missing object becomes the scene or evidence of a crime. The second part analyzes the logic behind appropriation within the creative process while part number three deals with the production of images that reveal hidden aspects on both a private or public level. Among the artists included are Maurizio Cattelan, Richard Artschwager, Adolph von Menzel and Gerhard Richter, Haris Epaminonda, Alice Lex-Nerlinger and John Stezaker, Sara Cwynar, Mathew Hale, Oliver Laric and Elad Lassry, John Baldessari and Sophie

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