From the ASMI Secretary, with apologies for cross-posting:
A Legacy of Love: An Introduction to Italian Memorial Sculpture
1820-1940
Photographic Exhibition at Watts Gallery: 31 March - 10 June 2007
Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey is delighted to be hosting the above
exhibition which is being organised by Robert Freidus, sculpture enthusiast
and photographer for the book of the same name by Sandra Berresford
(Frances Lincoln Publishers 2004). This exhibition has already been shown
at Florida State Museum of Fine Art and in Bologna.
The dramatic social, political and artistic changes which swept across
Italy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries found expression in
some of the most remarkable sculpture ever made. In the cemeteries that
were constructed all over the Italian peninsula, starting from the
Napoleonic period, funerary sculpture by renowned contemporary artists
developed from relatively conventional Neoclassicism through ever more
astonishing forms of Realism, informed in turn by Symbolism and by Art
Deco. The photographs capture the emotional charge of this sometimes
symbolic but more commonly hyper-realistic, often erotic and always
arresting work.
Watts Gallery is a registered charity which houses the studio collection of
the eminent Victorian artist and sculptor G.F.Watts OM RA (1817-1904) and
this is a unique opportunity to combine the exhibition with a visit to one
of Britain's most enchanting small galleries as well as to the neighbouring
Watts Cemetery Chapel, an extraordinary circular building in Italian
Romanesque style designed by Watts's second wife Mary.
For further information please contact [log in to unmask] or see
the Watts Gallery website at www.wattsgallery.org.uk
Watts Gallery, Down Lane, Compton, Guildford, Surrey GU3 1DQ Tel: 01483
810235
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