Artists at home!

What are the artists doing in this dramatic moment? In the Artribune magazine, the director of the Museo del Novecento in Florence, Sergio Risaliti, talks about the productions of the artists in quarantine in a series of appointments. The first is Giulio Paolini, with the collage entitled “Grazie a Giacinto “…., born from some photographs received by the curator Giacinto Di Pietrantonio relating to the Canova-Thorvaldsen exhibition underway at the Gallerie d’Italia in Milan.

Then there are those who stimulate the artists to produce something for the occasion. The curator Giada Pellicari offers @artistsinquarantine, an online exhibition with works by 12 artists, many of which are new works conceived for the Instagram frame. Young artists such as Mara Oscar Cassiani, SophieWesterlind, Lucia Veronesi and many others join the initiative.

Another online exhibition, curated by Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen, is How Can We Think of Art at a Time like This?, where artists such as Judith Bernstein, Miao Ying, Kathe Burkhart, Zhao Zhao and others have been asked to answer the contemporary situation.

And what will Damien Hirst be doing in his studio? From his Instagram profile his current production is clear: on canvases of various sizes, painted with jutting material colors, he reproduces the same theme, that is, cherry trees in bloom. The bright pigments pervade the support and go further, for example on the window of his studio, as if to express a horror vacui. And right next to the published posts Hirst says: “I love this size and love working on these but hard to be optimistic in an epidemic but we have to try! 🌸 “

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