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<i><b>On Flower Power. The Role of the Vase in Arts, Crafts and
Design</b></i><br>
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<div>July 16-September 29, 2019</div>
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<div>With the exhibition<i><b> On Flower Power. The Role of the Vase
in Arts, Crafts and Design</b></i>, curated by Martí Guixé, the<b>
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea</b> radically and
unconventionally explores the hybrid territory in which art, design
and craftsmanship interact.<br>
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<div>This exhibition represents the first occasion for the Galleria
Nazionale to compare these languages in relation to contemporary art
and focuses on a seemingly neutral object: the flower vase. This
element, a recurring archetype, becomes the principle medium for a
narrative that intertwines the history of art, the history of applied
arts and the history of design.<br>
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<div>After becoming an obsolete object, the vase was rediscovered in
the second half of the twentieth century when artists, architects and
designers began to re-code a typology, which has now become a real
icon of everyday life. Thanks to the shapes and heterogeneity of use
and dimensions, the role of the vase as a mere container has been
reconsidered and it has become a kind of training ground of design
through which to show one's creativity and point of view.<br>
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<div><i>On Flower Power</i> focuses on the empathetic power of the
flower and how this emotional factor is reworked within the various
disciplines: "A hybrid look," says Guixé, "at art,
craftsmanship and design through an object that is already transversal
in itself, the flower vase, which also becomes empathetic precisely
because of its ability to find an emotional complicity with its
observer. In the exhibition, the flower vase, through the
interpretation of the artist, craftsman or designer, becomes an
empathetic object and in a way a subject of our near future.<br>
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<div>On display there are<b> more than eighty works that reinterpret
the tradition and iconography of the vase through design</b>,<b>
photography</b>,<b> sculpture</b> and<b> painting.</b> Among the works
some from the most important protagonists of the international design
scene such as<b> Enzo Mari</b> (Cerano, 1932) and<b> Gaetano Pesce</b>
(La Spezia, 1939) to the<b> Mendini Vase Project</b>, a work (produced
for Alessi in 1992 by the Milanese architect Alessandro Mendini) that
includes the works of 100 artists such as Brian Eno, Robert Venturi,
Milton Glaser and Ettore Sottsass.</div>
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<b>National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Rome)</b><br>
Viale delle Belle Arti, 131<br>
00197 Rome</div>
<div>Italy</div>
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