Giorgio Mascherpa,"critico militante"

Translated title of the contribution: [Autom. eng. transl.] Giorgio Mascherpa, "militant critic"

Cecilia De Carli Sciume

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Abstract

The contribution, within the monograph on Giorgio Mascherpa, highlights his role as "militant critic" exercised on the pages of the newspaper "L'Avvenire", as well as in many other writings and exhibition initiatives, artistic direction and cataloging, faced and carried out in the second half of the twentieth century. The period of his cultural action was of intense excitement and reforms both on the side of the Church with the Second Vatican Council, and on the side of Art. In the arts in fact was born a deep contraposition between figuration and abstraction, an hard discussion on the social function of the artist, on the interdisciplinary tension of languages, a self-regulatory folding that is little concerned to achieve the participation of the observer. In this context, Mascherpa critical path has great importance because it opens passages in contemporary culture so bridled in clichés and highly ideological. From there Born the re-evaluation of many famous artists, revealed in never faced paths on the wake of the criticism already taken by Edoardo Persico and a field work aimed at a real rapprochement between the artists and the Church, already promoted by the action of Pope Paul VI and realized through exhibitions, catalogs, collections, in a continuous availability to dialogue and in close proximity to the artists.
Translated title of the contribution[Autom. eng. transl.] Giorgio Mascherpa, "militant critic"
Original languageItalian
Title of host publicationGiorgio Mascherpa (1930-1999) uomo fra i tempi
EditorsPaolo Biscottini
Pages27-37
Number of pages11
Publication statusPublished - 2010

Keywords

  • Arte contemporanea
  • Giorgio Mascherpa
  • contemporary art

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