The gaze and the idea
Electa 2023
English Translation of the exhibition catalogue by Scriptum
Lo sguardo e l’idea is the last exhibition for 2022 realised by the Uffizi Galleries with Il Museo dei Bozzetti di Pietrasanta, curated by Monica Alderotti, Chiara Celli and Vanessa Gavioli, and as part of the Uffizi Diffusi project. In the church and cloister of Sant’Agostino in Pietrasanta, until 19 February 2023, self-portraits from the Galleries’ collections will be confronted with sketches from the museum dedicated, precisely, to this form of work. The exhibition of sketches and self-portraits by 12 contemporary artists in the Church of Sant’Agostino is introduced by an immersive reality created by the visual artist Martin Romeo that allows you to enter inside the artisan workshops of Pietrasanta, where the work comes to fruition starting from the sketch (on a reduced scale) or the model (in real size) of the artist’s first idea.
One perceives the typical noises of sculpture workshops and foundries, the dust of marble, the malleability of waxes, the blinding glow of molten bronze descending from the crucible, and the hand of the craftsman working in complete symbiosis with the artist’s talent, assisting him in the different and complex phases of execution of the work.
From 19/11/2022 to 19/02/2023