“Crazy: La follia nell’arte contemporanea,” Chiostro del Bramante’s newest exhibition- curated by Danilo Eccher- is a sensory whirlwind packed into 21 acts. It’s flashing lights and broken glass and fur lined walls, not to mention at least a few rainbows. The works are overwhelmingly, dare I say, “fun”? This comes as no surprise at this venue, however.
Just as previous exhibitions at Chiostro del Bramante relied on a sense of “Instagram-ability,” like last year’s Banksy show and the previous “Dream,” we’re brought into a world that makes us want to snap a pic.
The exhibition, which may have seemed a bit frivolous a few years back, suddenly appears needed in a post(ish) pandemic Rome. Let us take a selfie! Let us enjoy a neon sign! Suddenly the instagramability feels necessary, to prove that we are existing in the world again instead of only viewing in from our screens.
That’s not to say the show is all fun and games. Perhaps the best moments come as the surprises where the rug feels pulled from under the viewer. The lights are gone and we’re in a dark closet. We’ve stepped into a dingy instillation that feel like a horror movie or the rumored “back rooms.”
Just as the mannequins who have been seemingly hit on the head with boulders- we too, with our masks on- navigate these familiar scenes with a new weight on our shoulders. There’s no use trying to escape madness; we may as well celebrate it.
List of artists: Carlos Amorales, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir / Shoplifter, Massimo Bartolini, Gianni Colombo, Petah Coyne, Ian Davenport, Janet Echelman, Fallen Fruit / David Allen Burns and Austin Young, Lucio Fontana, Anne Hardy, Thomas Hirschhorn, Alfredo Jaar, Alfredo Pirri, Gianni Politi , Tobias Rehberger, Anri Sala, Yinka Shonibare, Sissi, Max Streicher, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu.
Tickets are available on Chiostro del Bramante’s site and it is available for viewing until August 2023. Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 20.00 Saturday and Sunday from 10.00 to 21.00 .
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