Friday, November 8, 2024

10:35 - 11:00

Sala Ospiti

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Anish Kapoor in Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italy) and at the Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK)

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Cristina Camaiti and Fiorella Nicosia Registrars and Production coordinator at Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy Rebecca Bailey and Joanna Weston, Exhibitions Managers at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, United KIngdom The work of the registrar has increasingly changed, also in Italy, in particular in the Renaissance rooms of Palazzo Strozzi, which, for the past ten years or so, has been hosting international exhibitions with large-scale installations and different and unusual materials: organic, natural, chemical, industrial, digital, etc. The exhibition Anish Kapoor. Untrue Unreal (which ended in February 2024) meant a significant change of pace in terms of design, installation and even maintenance during its course. The case of the Anglo-Indian master's works strongly influenced our spaces, providing us with an opportunity for creative and fruitful mediation with the artist's studio - in what they called 'dirty rooms' - in order to safeguard the architecture of the building, while respecting the design, the artist's idea and the materiality of the works themselves. We invited our colleagues from the Royal Academy of Arts to participate in a discussion about the challenges and opportunities associated with producing temporary exhibitions with living artists in a historic suite of galleries. The RApresented an exhibition with Anish Kapoor in 2009 and has continued its long history of developing an ambitious programme of temporary exhibitions with living artists to this date.

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