contessanally: Venice: Palazzo Fortuny

"Going through the walls of the fallen city and sitting there, we had the ruins under our eyes. What then? We talked a lot about history [...]. Much was also spoken of that philosophy which deals with cultures and is therefore called morality; sometimes even art, its lovers and its rules ".
Francesco Petrarca, 1350-1366

Palazzo Fortuny

Futuruins

At Palazzo Fortuny, Futuruins, until March 24, is curated by Daniela Ferretti, Dimitri Ozerkow with Dario Dalla Lana, it is an exhibition dedicated to the aesthetic of ruins as crucial elements in the history of Western civilization. Over 250 works from the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and the State Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg, as well as from other public and private collections, illustrates the multiple meanings attributed to ruins through the centuries: from the architectural and sculptural remains of the Greco-Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian-Babylonian and Syrian civilizations, to Contemporary Art that looks at the physical and moral ruins of today’s society. Ruins of its architecture, cities and suburbs, but also of men and ideas, as the result of time, negligence, degeneration, natural or political tragedies such as war and terrorism.

http://fortuny.visitmuve.it/en/mostre-en/mostre-in-corso-en/fortuny-futuruins/2018/04/17735/the-exhibition-15/

Thomas Hirschhorn

Beyond Ruins - 2016

Photograph courtesy Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia

Ippolito Caffi

Atene - interno del Partenone - 1843

Anne and Patrick Poirier

Construction IV - Serie Domus Aurea - 1975-1978

“…built according to a fragmentary rhythm, which compares finds, artefacts, works and thoughts, from antiquity to the present day. Sorted by affinity or contrasts, they are splinters of history capable of suggesting more than one interpretative key. The unfolding of the story through images deals with an extremely vast and involving theme: the planning and construction of the future, through the awareness of its essential link with the past. An invitation for the visitors to reflect on, to discover, through countless possibilities, the traces necessary for the construction of a very personal visual journey.”
Daniela Ferretti

Okunevskaya culture
Slab with human figure that holds two spears

First half of 2^nd millennium B.C.

Giorgio De Chirico

Gli Archeologi – 1961

Paola De Pietri

Untitled – Series - Questa Pianura – 2017

Photograph courtesy Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia

Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo

Pompei - s.d.

Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo

Travel Album – Rome and Greece – 1936

Photograph courtesy Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia

Lynn Davis

Tetrapylon - Palmira, Syria - 1995-1997

Dimitri Prigov – Pietra – 2000

Civilta Azteca Messico – statua di Dea Chalchiuhtlicue – XV secolo

Cultura Tagar – Maschera funebra dipinta – meta I secolo d.C.

Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo - Natura Morta – I gessi dell’atelier – 1940

Steve McCurry

Wreckage on September 11 – NY – USA – 2001

Philip Galle (Da Maarten Van Heemskerck)

Il crollo delle Torre di Babele – 1569

“Every civilization learns what it needs.

Ours is an accelerated time, devoid of space for contemplation; the alternation of production / consumption cycles, crisis / rebirth is increasingly frenetic. Our age, strongly characterized by the use of increasingly sophisticated technologies, has multiplied the production of images, which quickly propagate and consume themselves, generating a magmatic bottleneck that is stratified in an infinite digital archive.”

Daniela Ferretti

Wolfgang Laib

House – 2016