Una mostra alla National Gallery celebra il bianco e il nero nella storia dell’arte

Alla National Gallery di Londra, una grande mostra, prevista per il prossimo autunno, ripercorrerà la storia dell’arte seguendo la linea dell’assenza di colore. Oltre 700 anni di opere in bianco e nero che esplorano la tradizione pittorica in bianco e nero dal Medioevo fino al XXI secolo…

Una mostra alla National Gallery celebra il bianco e il nero nella storia dell’arte
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and workshop Odalisque in Grisaille, about 1824-34 Oil on canvas, 83.2 × 109.2 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1938, 38.65 © The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource / Scala, Florence

Cosa succede quando gli artisti provano a mettere da parte l’intera gamma dei colori e si concentrano sulla potenza visiva del bianco e del nero? La mostra Monochrome: Painting in Black and White, prevista per il prossimo ottobre alla National Gallery di Londra, prova a dare una risposta seguendo un percorso cronologico che parte dal Medioevo, attraversa il Rinascimento e giunge fino ai giorni nostri. 700 anni di storia dell’arte raccontanti attraverso 50 opere radicali che hanno rappresentato un passaggio importante. Dipinti e disegni di antichi maestri, come Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, e Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres sono messi a confronto con le opere di alcuni dei più importanti artisti contemporanei tra cui Gerhard Richter, Chuck Close e Bridget Riley. In mostra anche l’installazione immersiva Room for one colour (1997) di Olafur Eliasson. In anteprima un po’ di immagini della mostra che inaugurerà il prossimo 30 ottobre.

  • Mariacristina Ferraioli

Monochrome: Painting in Black and White
30 October 2017 – 18 February 2018
Press opening: 26 October 2017
The National Gallery, London
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk

Albrecht Dürer Head of a Woman, 1520 Brush drawing with black and grey bodycolour heightened with white on paper, 32.4 × 22.8 cm The British Museum, London © The Trustees of The British Museum 1 / 10
Albrecht Dürer Head of a Woman, 1520 Brush drawing with black and grey bodycolour heightened with white on paper, 32.4 × 22.8 cm The British Museum, London © The Trustees of The British Museum
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and workshop Odalisque in Grisaille, about 1824-34 Oil on canvas, 83.2 × 109.2 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1938, 38.65 © The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource / Scala, Florence 2 / 10
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and workshop Odalisque in Grisaille, about 1824-34 Oil on canvas, 83.2 × 109.2 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1938, 38.65 © The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource / Scala, Florence
Célestin Joseph Blanc Head of a Girl, 1867 Oil on panel, 26.7 × 21.6 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London 3 / 10
Célestin Joseph Blanc Head of a Girl, 1867 Oil on panel, 26.7 × 21.6 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Domenico Ghirlandaio or workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio Drapery Study (possibly study for Saint Matthew and an Angel), about 1477 Brown and black wash heightened with white on brown linen, 26.2 x 17.1 cm © Kupferstichkabinett. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Photo: Jörg P. Ander 4 / 10
Domenico Ghirlandaio or workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio Drapery Study (possibly study for Saint Matthew and an Angel), about 1477 Brown and black wash heightened with white on brown linen, 26.2 x 17.1 cm © Kupferstichkabinett. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Photo: Jörg P. Ander
Eugène Carrière Maternity (Suffering), about 1896-7 Oil on canvas, 81.3 × 65.4 cm © Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru - National Museum of Wales 5 / 10
Eugène Carrière Maternity (Suffering), about 1896-7 Oil on canvas, 81.3 × 65.4 cm © Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru - National Museum of Wales
Kazimir Malevich Black Square, 1929 Oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm © The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow 6 / 10
Kazimir Malevich Black Square, 1929 Oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm © The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Bernard Lépicié after Jean-Siméon Chardin Back from the Market (La Pourvoyeuse), 1742 Etching and engraving, 37.5 × 25.9 cm The Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, with the aid of a contribution from the National Fund and from E.E. Baron, August 1940. © Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 7 / 10
Bernard Lépicié after Jean-Siméon Chardin Back from the Market (La Pourvoyeuse), 1742 Etching and engraving, 37.5 × 25.9 cm The Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, with the aid of a contribution from the National Fund and from E.E. Baron, August 1940. © Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Francois Boucher 1756 Una mostra alla National Gallery celebra il bianco e il nero nella storia dell’arte 8 / 10
François Boucher Vulcan's Forge (Vulcan presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas), 1756 Oil sketch on canvas, 38 × 43 cm © Paris, Les Arts Décoratifs / Jean Tholance
Gustave Moreau Diomedes devoured by his Horses (date tbc) Oil on canvas, 130 × 196 cm Musée national Gustave Moreau, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais / René-Gabriel Ojéda 9 / 10
Gustave Moreau Diomedes devoured by his Horses (date tbc) Oil on canvas, 130 × 196 cm Musée national Gustave Moreau, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais / René-Gabriel Ojéda
Olafur Eliasson Room for one colour, 1997. Installation view at Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 © Olafur Eliasson. Photo: Anders Sune Berg 10 / 10
Olafur Eliasson Room for one colour, 1997. Installation view at Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 © Olafur Eliasson. Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Albrecht Dürer Head of a Woman, 1520 Brush drawing with black and grey bodycolour heightened with white on paper, 32.4 × 22.8 cm The British Museum, London © The Trustees of The British Museum
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and workshop Odalisque in Grisaille, about 1824-34 Oil on canvas, 83.2 × 109.2 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1938, 38.65 © The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource / Scala, Florence
Célestin Joseph Blanc Head of a Girl, 1867 Oil on panel, 26.7 × 21.6 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Domenico Ghirlandaio or workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio Drapery Study (possibly study for Saint Matthew and an Angel), about 1477 Brown and black wash heightened with white on brown linen, 26.2 x 17.1 cm © Kupferstichkabinett. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Photo: Jörg P. Ander
Eugène Carrière Maternity (Suffering), about 1896-7 Oil on canvas, 81.3 × 65.4 cm © Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru - National Museum of Wales
Kazimir Malevich Black Square, 1929 Oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm © The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Bernard Lépicié after Jean-Siméon Chardin Back from the Market (La Pourvoyeuse), 1742 Etching and engraving, 37.5 × 25.9 cm The Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, with the aid of a contribution from the National Fund and from E.E. Baron, August 1940. © Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Francois Boucher 1756 Una mostra alla National Gallery celebra il bianco e il nero nella storia dell’arte
Gustave Moreau Diomedes devoured by his Horses (date tbc) Oil on canvas, 130 × 196 cm Musée national Gustave Moreau, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais / René-Gabriel Ojéda
Olafur Eliasson Room for one colour, 1997. Installation view at Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 © Olafur Eliasson. Photo: Anders Sune Berg

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Mariacristina Ferraioli

Mariacristina Ferraioli

Mariacristina Ferraioli è giornalista, curatrice e critico d’arte. Dopo la laurea in Lettere Moderne con indirizzo Storia dell’Arte, si è trasferita a Parigi per seguire corsi di letteratura, filosofia e storia dell’arte presso la Sorbonne (Paris I e Paris 3).…

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