FLORENCE, ITALY – The artist John Currin is the protagonist of an exhibit at Museo Stefano Bardini of Florence until October 2nd, 2016. It is the first significant exhibition of the New York artist in an Italian public space.
A painter displaying a sophisticated technique and a deep figurative culture, Currin is renowned and celebrated for his extremely elegant portraits and erotic scenes rendered with ironic, shameless realism.
In his works, very often small paintings, Currin conceals his deep knowledge of art history and a very refined taste in representational composition. With settings that are never ordinary and often tacitly sarcastic, and a selection of topics that stylistically and graphically also recall glossy and pornographic magazines, the American artist redefined contemporary portraiture.
In this sense, his works follow on the heels of Pablo Picasso and Willem de Kooning rather than on those of John Singer Sargent or Edward Hopper.
The exhibition promoted by the Comune di Firenze, is organized by Mus.e Association in collaboration with the Gagosian Gallery in Rome and with the support of Faliero Sarti.
The exhibition (included in the Museum ticket) is open on Monday, Friday, Saturady and Sinday (11 am – 5pm), ticket: € 6,00 full price (reduced prices are available for age 18-15 and university students).
The Museo Bardini is in Costa San Giorgio 2, Florence, close to Ponte Vecchio.
