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NAPLES, MUSEO DI CAPODIMONTE

12th Dec 2009 - 11th Apr 2010

Return to Baroque. From Caravaggio to Vanvitelli

LONDON

8th Oct 2009 - 8th Nov 2009

BACK TO THE FUTURE: YOUNG ARTISTS LOOK TO OLD MASTERS Featuring: Justin Coombes, Tom Gallant, Sigrid Holmwood, Barnaby Hosking, Graham Little, Paul Morrison, Boo Ritson, William Stein, Alexis Marguerite Teplin, Richard Wathen, Mathew Weir, Douglas White

Press Release (PDF)

This exhibition brings together the work of younger UK-based artists against that of major Old Masters, to investigate the relationship between the two. 'Back to the Future' looks at a group of emerging UK-based artists, whose work is informed by an awareness of the history of art. Just as Old Masters, and artists such as Turner and Picasso, were acutely aware of their predecessors, so today are many contemporary artists reexamining the past and looking at their own art through a new lens. A current of historical reappraisal, which has been largely absent from the conceptual work in the contemporary art scene, is again emerging today.

Setting this project apart will be a set of new commissions - most artists have been asked to produce new work after coming into contact with particular Old Master works at the gallery and choosing inspiration: eg. Tom Gallant will be working with Ary Scheffer’s masterpiece ‘Dante and Virgil Encountering The Shades of Francesca and Paolo Di Rimini in the Underworld’, Barnaby Hosking will produce a new video installation inspired by Girodet’s ‘Head of Galatea’ a study for the Louvre painting, Richard Wathen will work with a stunning ‘St. Apollonia’ by Carlo Dolci, Paul Morrison will look at Volaire’s dramatic ‘Eruption of Vesuvius’. Each pairing will hang side-by-side in the exhibition.