Gigi Bon, the Rhinoceros, Venice, and the Unbearable Heaviness of Being

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13014177
AutoresCatherine Kovesi (0000-0003-2617-3404, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen8
Número1
Páginas13-39
Fecha de publicación2021-01-02
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLuxury (BOOK_SERIES)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2051-1817 • E-ISSN: 2051-1825
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/20511817.2020.1864596
OpenAlexW3181394438
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas14

This article analyses the oeuvre of the Venetian artist Gigi Bon whose distinctive attitude to her city and the rhinoceros inspired this special issue and the exhibition which preceded it. To enter the Studio d’Arte “Mirabilia” of Gigi Bon is to be introduced to a world of sculptures, prints, and objects of wonder in the tradition of the sixteenth-century Wünderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities. But more than this, it is an entrée into the mind and active working studio of an artist who has a unique vision, developed over almost thirty years, of the profound links between her own identity, that of the city of Venice, and the predicament of the rhinoceros. Her artistic output, and in particular her mixed media lost-wax bronze sculptures, prints, and sizeable silken scarves incorporate elements of the precious, the rare, the fantastical, and the whimsical, and all reflect profoundly on themes of self, Venice, and the rhinoceros

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Art history · Bronze · Cabinet (room · Exhibition · Hobby · Identity (music · Rhinoceros · Sculpture · Studio · Visual arts · Wonder · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Philosophy