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“Emilio Isgrò: Erasure cancels out censorship” exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute

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“Emilio Isgrò: Erasure cancels out censorship” exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute

(21 March 2017) “Erasure is not a simple negation, but rather an affirmation of new meanings. It is the transformation of a negative sign into a positive one”. With his practice of erasure, Isgrò has radically transformed this contemporary art practice. In spite of those who see erasure as a gesture of cancellation or annihilation, Isgrò’s work goes beyond this notion, becoming a useful theory for the investigation of reality, a philosophical tool with with to interpret it, and a language with which to describe it. Fifty years after his first erasure’, a selection of Isgrò’s work will be showcased in an exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris. These works challenge, in a paradoxical way, the themes of censorship and intolerance, featuring large portraits of Girolamo Savonarola and Galileo Galilei. The exhibition titled “Emilio Isgrò: Erasure cancels out censorship” (Title in Italian: ‘Emilio Isgrò: la cancellatura annulla la censura”) organised by the Italian Cultural Institute of Paris in collaboration with Galerie Tornabuoni Art and the Emilio Isgrò Archive, opens on March 27 at 19:00 and will remain open until April 5th. The artist and critic Marco Bazzini will be present at the vernissage.


A WELL-ROUNDED ARTIST

 

A conceptual artist, painter but also a poet, writer, playwrite, and filmmaker; Emilio Isgrò (born in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Sicilia, 1937) is one of the most renowned Italian artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. In 2016, his adoptive hometown of Milan, paid a tribute to the artist with a retrospective show at the Palazzo Reale, the display of his ‘erased’ Alessandro Manzoni Portrait in Gallerie d’Italie and the 35 copies of “The Betrothed” erased for 25 readers and 10 for the Casa del Manzoni.

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