For the occasion of the joint collaboration between Polo Museale del Veneto, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and Zuecca Projects, we interviewed Alessandro Possati, Founder and Director of Zuecca Projects to tell us about the origins of the exhibition "Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto".
The exhibition, curated by Ludovico Pratesi is on view until January 07, 2019 at Palazzo Ducale and Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro.
Mara Sartore: The exhibition takes part in the celebrations for the 500th anniversary since the birth of Jacapo Tintoretto. How did the idea come about to create a dialogue between the 16th century Venetian master and contemporary artists?
Alessandro Possati: It came about through a collaboration with the American Foundation for the Safeguarding of Venice's Historical Heritage, Save Venice. The Director Frederick Ilchman (also Chair of Art of Europe at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts) put forward the idea of contextualising Tintoretto's work within an international contemporary art context.
Mara Sartore: How did the collaboration with the curator Ludovico Pratesi come about? How did you organise this project together?
Alessandro Possati: Departing from a talk which had been previously organised with the curator Ludovico Pratesi and Gabriella Belli, the director of MUVE on the topic of how light is used in the painting of the contemporary Italian artist, Luigi Carboni, to which it is central to his work. Together with the Curator we made in-depth research into the life and career of Tintoretto, selecting a vast body of work from which to draw upon, we decided therefore to focus on one of the most characteristic aspects of his work: portraiture. In fact, Tintoretto, despite receiving increasingly prestigious commissions during his career, has always been considered an unparalleled master in the realisation of portraits that, despite the fame of his established "Atelier", always and exclusively by himself.
Mara Sartore: How does the itinerary and the dialogue develop between the modern and the contemporary in the exhibitions at Palazzo Ducale and Galleria Franchetti?
Alessandro Possati: The itinerary unfolds as an educational pathway: starting with the historic aspect of the retrospective with the major works by Tintoretto, paying particular attention to the portraits gallery at Palazzo Ducale (portraiture is the focus for our dialogue with the contemporary works) and, at the end of the exhibition we continue towards the Quarantia Civil Vecchia where the two discs of Emilio Vedova are placed, the first contemporary artist included in the exhibition, at the end of the pathway in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio, one is confronted by the greatness of Il Paradiso. The itinerary then continues at Galleria Giorgio Franchetti in Ca 'D'oro where the 12 meticulously selected contemporary portraits interact with the Portrait of the Procurator Nicolò Priuli di Tintoretto, offering an overview of the contemporary pictorial panorama.
Above image: Installation view "Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto", Courtesy of Zuecca Projects © Marco Dabbicco
Read the full interview on My Art Guides.
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