Lucilla Meloni curates 'Le immagini reinventate' at CAP Carrara

The summer exhibition at CAP Carrara, titled 'Le immagini reinventate' (Reinvented Images), curated by Lucilla Meloni, presents a diverse panorama of works by international artists who have been active since the 1980s and 1990s. The show explores the concept of the 'stolen image'—the practice of appropriating and recontextualizing pre-existing visual materials, ranging from popular culture of the 1960s and 1970s to cinema by Antonioni and Hitchcock. Artists such as Stefano Arienti, Gea Casolaro, Aleksandra Mir, Thorsten Kirchhoff, Myriam Laplante, Mauricio Lupini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Cyprien Gaillard, and Vik Muniz employ techniques like painting, drawing, photocollage, and video to create citations and ready-mades. Baruchello's video is highlighted as a pioneering work for a generation. Gaillard presents fragments from the World Trade Center ruins. The exhibition serves as a practical verification of Meloni's theoretical study 'Arte guarda arte. Pratiche della citazione nell'arte contemporanea' (Postmedia Books). The show runs at CAP Carrara, with contributions from Italian artists like Casolaro and Arienti, and includes references to design objects such as Olivetti and Richard Ginori ceramics.