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The Mona Lisa THREE...D!
The artist friends of Ponte degli Artisti and Taxus APS have taken on a new challenge: to give form and substance to Leonardo's Mona Lisa. “La Gioconda Tre…D!” is an exhibition path that revolves around the famous and irreverent manipulation by Duchamp of Leonardo da Vinci's «Gioconda» (1919/64) with beard, mustache and the inscription L.H.O.O.Q. (which, read in French, sounds like “She has a hot ass”), to which other works are added, few of them famous, such as the “Nude Descending a Staircase” (1911/37), the “Boîte-en-valise” (1941), the first ready-mades like “The Comb” (1916/64), and more recent ones like the “Washerwoman's Aprons” from 1959. These works engage in an evocative dialogue with those of the Fluxus artists, an open group of personalities (already active at the end of the 1950s) who radicalized the premises of the historical Dadaists.
Today, more than twenty-five members of the Ponte degli Artisti group, spurred on by its promoter Savi Arbola Appiani, recount the vision of a contemporary Gioconda, who steps out of the canvas “perhaps a prisoner of a thousand tales and legends” to begin a new journey into the world and the imagination of the artists who have interpreted her: Ada Eva Verbena, Adriano Tommasi, Alessandra La Chioma, Alessandro Botti (Jebbo), Alessandro Digrandi, Antonio Spagnuolo, Arrylynne Barron, Carla Pisola, Chiara Gorla, Claudia Pistola, Daniela Dente, Dany Rocco, Donatella Bianchi, Eleonora Sesana, Federica Grandi, Franco Scacchi, Gladys Maria De La Raba, Leonard, Leonora Rapezzi, Luisa Bergamini, Maria Augusta Rossi, Mario Napoletti, Paolo Rui, Pier Didoni, Pierluigi Bruno, Silvì Petrozza.
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