RE.USE
SCRAPS, OBJECTS, ECOLOGY IN CONTEMPORARY ART
If you’re in Treviso, visit “RE.USE. Scraps, objects, ecology in contemporary art”, an exhibit consisting of 87 pieces by 58 international artists, designed to trace a path along the theme of reuse within the context of contemporary art history. Through the works of great artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Burri, Christo, and Damien Hirst, just to name a few, the exhibition aims to document the continuous relationship that art has had with everyday objects and with waste. From the early twentieth century, with Man Ray and Manzoni – when the distance between a museum and the world of common objects was shortened – to the French realism of the 1960s, when we begin to get a glimpse of the social responsibility of artists, up to the present day, the exhibit is a true journey towards admiring the birth, evolution, and current status of the reuse concept, in the world of modern and contemporary art, with an ethical and aesthetic objective. Divided among three locations: the Museum of Santa Caterina, the Casa Robegan Museum, and the Piano Nobile of Ca’ dei Ricchi, RE.USE is curated by Valerio Dehò and is open to the public until February 10th, 2019.