Seventh Circle

Starting from the reinterpretation of an art-history landmark, the Scrovegni Chapel painted by Giotto, rhetorical questions are posed and visual artistic answers are given about the place of man’s representation in the world of art, the skill of this representation and the need for re-representation, about the relationship between what was experienced and what is expected. Giotto worked at a time when the end of the world was expected to occur almost every day. The Scrovegni Chapel is nothing but a recommendation for its founder in the other world, the one Giotto’s contemporary Dante described in his Comedy. Giotto situates his vision of man – the man of our, this
realm – in the other world. Like Dante, who was transported to another world by a dream, Giotto uses his painting skills to achieve the same. Giotto outgrew his boundaries and set the spark from which modern art would later develop. Or, in other words, Giotto became the symbol of the phantasm of modernity. Thus, at the end of the era that anticipated the termination of the world, a new one was conceived, creating at the same the myth of eternal youth.

Exhibition opens a debate about the contemporary skill of fine art, the relationship towards the myths of the eternal return to the past, about the complexes of local and global modernities, higher and lower values, and the world to which we do and don’t belong.