Image courtesy of La Sapienza's website, www1.uniroma1.it.In the afternoon, we went to Museo del Corso to see their current Edward Hopper exhibition. It was really interesting for me to see more examples of the differences in common exhibition practice in Italy, compared to American Museums, in both the design and the curatorial aspects. For example, there was a life-sized reconstruction of Hopper's famous Nighthawks, where people could literally walk into the "painting" and sit next to mannequins dressed up like the people. Very surreal. In another room you could take a piece of paper and pencil and trace over a projected image of a Hopper drawing, and then take it home with you. It was much more interactive and theatrical as a whole, and definitely interesting, though not necessarily my cup of tea. Exhibition aside, I am definitely inspired by Hopper's work. He is an incredible colorist and master of composition.
This was my favorite: Le Bistro (The Wine Shop) from 1909. On loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art. Image from www.museumsyndicate.com. The light is so evocative.
This is my traced drawing:
And a quick sketch I made:
From Museo del Corso, we headed up to Gagosian Gallery, on via Francesco Crispi. They were debuting Richard Serra's new Greenpoint Rounds series of very sculptural (and very marketable) large-scale drawings. I was pretty impressed with the gallery space, and found Serra's take on drawing pretty visually interesting up-close.
Richard Serra. Borges. 2009. Paintstick on handmade paper. Courtesy of gagosian.com.Our evening was spent at Micca Club, a lively burlesque club with great food, drinks and music.
This is a funny pamphlet I picked up there.All in all, a pretty accomplished Friday, I'd say.
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