Exhibition
Correnti III – Techne Eva L’Hoest / Mario Sironi
9 Mar 2023 – 21 Apr 2023
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 15:00 – 19:00
- Friday
- 15:00 – 19:00
- Saturday
- 15:00 – 19:00
by appointment - Monday
- 15:00 – 19:00
- Tuesday
- 15:00 – 19:00
- Wednesday
- 15:00 – 19:00
Free admission
Address
- via Lazzaro Papi 2
- Milan
Lombardy - 20135
- Italy
Correnti III - Techne presents an ideal dialogue between the Belgian artist Eva L'Hoest and the master of Italian art Mario Sironi. Two artists were interested in the relationship between industry and landscape, knowledge as a technique, and its possible outcome as the destiny of civilization.
About
The exhibition Correnti III - Techne is proposed as a double reflection on the human capacity to practice any activity, not only manual but also intellectual.
The term techne, which defines the title of this third declination, refers to the ability to apply knowledge, empirically acquired and transmitted by tradition as in manual and artistic work or thanks to specialized scientific knowledge as in the case of industrial production. The dialogue that is activated in the comparison between the video and sculptural work of Eva L'Hoest (The Inmost Cell, 2020) and the painting of Mario Sironi (Centrale Elettrica, 1926) opens a horizon of meaning that calls into question both aspects: on the one hand the technique as the human ability to create (techne means art in ancient Greek), which is manifested in the artistic currents in different periods of history, culturally connotated and strongly characterized by the use of its means of expression; On the other hand, technology as an exercise of human power on the landscape, shaped by industrial society, as in the case, for example, of the construction of power stations, of electric currents.
