Ca Rezzonico: Barry X Ball – Portraits and Masterpieces. The American sculpture Barry X Ball presents twenty portraits of eminent personalities of the art world in this beautiful exhibition at Ca Rezzonico, until September 11th, entitled Portraits and Masterpieces. In the Masterpiece series he reworks and subtly enhances with computer-lathed marble two baroque sculptural busts from the Ca Rezzonico collection.
Above: The installation, which as a whole is titled Pseudogroup of Giuseppe Panza, 1998-2001 in Macedonian marble.
Ca Rezzonico: Barry X Ball – Portraits and Masterpieces. The artist Barry X Ball with Purity in white Iranian onyx, 2008-2009, the onyx was the last onyx to leave the quarry, the rest was used for the Allatoya Kohemini’s grave. Purity is one of the two Masterpieces in the series and was enhanced from Antonio Corradini’s bust The Veiled Lady (Purity) 1720-1725 in Italian marble.
Ca Rezzonico: Barry X Ball – Portraits and Masterpieces. A dual-portrait realized at 100% scale, in the rare, uniquely un-figured black marble known as Belge Noir, 2007-2010, exhibiting a layered sfumato suffused with miniscule opposed-diagonal fluting overlaying a coincident enveloping foliate relief.
Ca Rezzonico: Barry X Ball – Portraits and Masterpieces. A portrait of Milanese collector, critic and art historian Laura Mattioli Rossi, as she appeared in 2000 (except with somewhat-attenuated head and neck details, and no hair), at 65% scale, with miniscule vertical/radial fluting throughout (except for the smooth mirror polish on the one open eye and the stylized neck viscera), in an aggregate of lapis lazuli and other indeterminate stone types (commonly called Sodalite) which the artist procured in Carrara.
Seen at Ca Rezzonico: Barry X Ball – Portraits and Masterpieces. Milanese hoteliers Daniela Bertazzoni and Sara Mancino.
Seen at Ca Rezzonico: Barry X Ball – Portraits and Masterpieces. Envy 2008-2010 in golden honeycomb Calcite enhanced after Giusto Le Court’s Envy circa 1670 in Italian marble from the collection in Ca Rezzonico, and Purity 2008-2009 in golden honeycomb Calcite.