Sotto Pelle is an X-ray investigation by Renato Meneghetti around the Lamentation over the Dead Christ, sees the work of Mantegna pictorially investigated by overlapping transparencies x-rays to create new ideas, new works of art.
Meneghetti’s exhibit was exposed at the 54th Biennale in Venice in 2011 as a special initiative at the International Exposition of Art for the 150 years of Italian Republic. The exhibition starts with a copy of Mantegna’s painting in its original format, and Meneghetti’s radiography. The light will guide the viewers to discover an art gallery of unrecognized artists. A space to meet the work of four unknown artists with superimposed action of Meneghetti’s x-rays.
The visitors are in front of a series of works emphasized by the radiographic intervention of Meneghetti. This effect upsets the starting point of each work. But the original is still visible, thank to transparency the plexiglas sheets superimposed on the paintings. The overall effect gives birth to an entirely new piece of art. The X-ray means transmutation and sublimation, but also an image of a tragic dissolution. The polarity between sublimation and dissolution is an equilibrium point and yet another element of the intervention of Meneghetti (Don Giuseppe Billi Contemporary Art reporter for CEI).
The installation is a metaphor for Art as an active force, a step toward the possible constellations of knowing oneself, through knowing our body (Ibid). The large slabs of Renato Meneghetti form a choral work, impressive and dramatic, designed to express extreme tension and expressive poetic vision fragmented and syncopated via superposition of x-ray plates and painting.
The infinite possible combinations force the eye to an incessant movement to grasp the inexhaustible energy.
Renato Meneghetti. Sotto Pelle. Investigation x-ray on Lamentation over the Dead Christ 2011, alcohol on canvas, cm 68x81
Venezia, Padiglione Italia - Tesa 99 - Arsenale Novissimo.
Renato Meneghetti, Sotto Pelle, 2011, Venezia, Padiglione Italia - Tesa 99 - Arsenale Novissimo.
Renato Meneghetti, Sotto Pelle, 2011, Venezia, Padiglione Italia - Tesa 99 - Arsenale Novissimo.
Renato Meneghetti, Sotto Pelle, 2011, Venezia, Padiglione Italia - Tesa 99 - Arsenale Novissimo.
Renato Meneghetti, Sotto Pelle, Arsenale Novissimo, Venezia, 2011.
history of italian renaissance art || the life of an object of art || silvia minguzzi || spring 2012
The visitors are in front of a series of works emphasized by the radiographic intervention of Meneghetti. This effect upsets the starting point of each work. But the original is still visible, thank to transparency the plexiglas sheets superimposed on the paintings. The overall effect gives birth to an entirely new piece of art.
