Scandurra for Palladio

The show at the Palladio Museum in Vicenza reconstructs all the history of the face of mythical architect Andrea Palladio, with a set design by Alessandro Scandurra.

"Andrea Palladio. Il mistero del volto", exhibition museum, Palladium Museum, Vicenza, 2017
For the first time at the Palladio Museum in Vicenza, an exhibition attempts to reconstruct all the complicated history of the face of mythical architect Andrea Palladio, the result of a rigorous scientific research about over five centuries of falsified paintings, misunderstandings and mistakes. Andrea Palladio’s sixteenth-century portrait doesn’t exist: we know from Giorgio Vasari that at least two of them existed, but the traces of both have been lost.

 

The set up of the exhibition, designed by Alessandro Scandurra with Scandurra Studio, restores a detective-story atmosphere. Beside each painting, the visitor finds luminous tables where the “finds” found in the investigation are presented: x-rays of paintings, stratigraphic sections that highlight the succession of pictorial films, ancient photographs, documents. In this way it is possible to verify the proposed hypotheses on the show and find your “own” Palladio.

"Andrea Palladio. Il mistero del volto", exhibition museum, Palladium Museum, Vicenza, 2017
"Andrea Palladio. Il mistero del volto", exhibition museum, Palladium Museum, Vicenza, 2017
“The set-up is designed to multiply in a multitude of images collected over time. So, reflections accompany us on a path to the discovery of our looks. The contrasting mirror panels show a broken pattern and the angles produce a particular effect of continuous reflection between the palace, portraits and people. Looking for Palladio’s face is a way to understand why Palladio, unlike his colleagues, did not want his image to render his writings: it is only their dissemination, in fact, the true testimony of his thought. A democratic spread of its architecture, reproducible as a mounting kit”, explains Alessandro Scandurra.
"Andrea Palladio. Il mistero del volto", exhibition museum, Palladium Museum, Vicenza, 2017
"Andrea Palladio. Il mistero del volto", exhibition museum, Palladium Museum, Vicenza, 2017

until 18 June 2017
Andrea Palladio. Il mistero del volto
curated by Guido Beltramini
Palladio Museum
Palazzo Barbaran
Contrà Porti 11, Vicenza

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