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dc.identifier	ECF_article_15219
dc.title	«Nudi trasfigurati da una strana metamorfosi». La scultura di Alberto Viani intorno alla metà degli anni Quaranta
dc.contributor.author	Greco Emanuele
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/venezia-arti/2023/1/nudi-trasfigurati-da-una-strana-metamorfosi/
dc.description.abstract	The essay examines a group of Alberto Viani’s sculptures, created around the mid-1940s, and characterized by a surrealist declination of the theme of ‘metamorphosis’. In this surrealist context, the theme of ‘metamorphosis’ is interpreted as a hybridization of the human figure with the vegetal, animal and mechanical world. Moreover, the essay intends, on one hand to identify the various visual sources used by the sculptor, on the other, it aims to define the importance of the theme of ‘metamorphosis’ itself. In particular it reflects on the interpretations proposed by the different artists studied by the sculptor (such as Hans Arp, Pablo Picasso, André Masson, Renato Birolli), and the role they played on the imaginative freedom, in an abstract sense, of Viani’s oeuvre.
dc.relation.ispartof	Venezia Arti
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 32 \| December 2023
dc.issued	2023-12-20
dc.dateAccepted	2023-10-16
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-09-10
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-2720
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/VA/2385-2720/2023/01/007
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Arp
dc.subject	Biomorphic Abstraction
dc.subject	Birolli
dc.subject	Forties
dc.subject	Masson
dc.subject	Metamorphosis
dc.subject	Picasso
dc.subject	Viani

Research Article
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«Nudi trasfigurati da una strana metamorfosi»

La scultura di Alberto Viani intorno alla metà degli anni Quaranta

Emanuele Greco Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italia

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abstract

The essay examines a group of Alberto Viani’s sculptures, created around the mid-1940s, and characterized by a surrealist declination of the theme of ‘metamorphosis’. In this surrealist context, the theme of ‘metamorphosis’ is interpreted as a hybridization of the human figure with the vegetal, animal and mechanical world. Moreover, the essay intends, on one hand to identify the various visual sources used by the sculptor, on the other, it aims to define the importance of the theme of ‘metamorphosis’ itself. In particular it reflects on the interpretations proposed by the different artists studied by the sculptor (such as Hans Arp, Pablo Picasso, André Masson, Renato Birolli), and the role they played on the imaginative freedom, in an abstract sense, of Viani’s oeuvre.

Published

Dec. 20, 2023

Accepted

Oct. 16, 2023

Submitted

Sept. 10, 2023

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Keywords: Forties • Biomorphic Abstraction • Masson • Picasso • Viani • Arp • Metamorphosis • Birolli

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