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CRASH IN PROGRESS

Imbued with northern culture, Casorati, with this work, ventures into a kind of painting that shows almost hyper-realistic features in a voluntary use of kitsch, allowing him to anticipate themes and methods of the Magical Realism. After ninety years since the first exhibition, Le Signorine by Casorati is still impressing and troubling as it was during the 10 th Biennial of Venice, when, notwithstanding the little scandal it had caused (or maybe exactly for this reason), the painting was bought for Ca' Pesaro.While today the most daring experimentations tend to a firm reappraisal of painting, the work by Casorati becomes a benchmark again, due to the multiplicity of themes it encloses, ranging from nude to still life, from landscape to allegory. If history of art expresses itself from the outside, the contemporary artist's critical look moves around other artists' works with a different knowledge to reach creative results. New art, from the history of art.
Flavia Scotton

crirical text by Mara Ambrozic

The peculiar situation depicted in the painting by Felice Casorati links the four young girls to each other and describes their intimately different nature through objects and symbolic cross-references the artist scatters in the surrounding surface. The chromatic contrasts and the allegorical hints suggest different ways of interpreting each character - Dolores, Viola, Bianca and Allegra – who, though extremely different from each other, coexist in an accomplished whole. That's where the resemblance to the Crash in Progress seems to stem from. This group grounded its artistic attitude on the attempt to create an “accomplished project corpus” within which five different artistic personalities act in tune with each other as individual “autonomous systems”.The work exhibited in Ca' Pesaro is a mise-en-scène that recreates the complex identity between public and private creative domains and discloses their moment when they come together in a single representation.