{"id":110513,"date":"2022-06-28T16:45:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T15:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/ecomsite\/?p=110513"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:19:00","slug":"london-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/london-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"London calling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Palazzo Cipolla presents the\u00a0 exhibition London Calling<\/strong> – British Contemporary Art Now, for the first time in Italy, focused entirely on contemporary art that came out of “swinging London,” with a varied selection of works by 13 artists from different generations.<\/span><\/p>\n

The artists are: David Hockney, Michael Craig-Martin, Sean Scully, Tony Cragg, Anish Kapoor, Julian Opie, Grayson Perry, Yinka Shonibare, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Damien Hirst, Mat Collishaw, Annie Morris and Idris Khan.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is named after The Clash<\/a>‘s 1979 album, “London Calling.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Plug by David Hockney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Self Portrait I<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/blockquote>\n

Though the artists part of this exhibition are of different ages and origins they share having lived intensively in London, absorbing its dynamic anti-conformist quality during a stage of their career.<\/p>\n

Their most recent works were chosen to show at Palazzo Cipolla (except for a few iconic pieces such as Damien Hirst<\/strong>‘s <\/span>Glen Matlock<\/span><\/i> from 1997 and Grayson Perry’s ceramic vase from 1995) with the goal of appreciating the absolute vitality, originality, and disruptiveness of the message that they still carry in this second decade of the 2000s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition takes visitors along a conceptual journey that conveys, condensed into just over 30 works, the history of contemporary European and Western art, both in terms of stylistic experiments and conceptual research.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Anish Kapoor<\/strong> <\/span><\/h4>\n

One of the internationally renowned artists is the Indian artist, Anish Kapoor<\/strong> (Mumbai 1954)<\/span><\/p>\n

His two concave red discs, <\/span>Magenta Apple Mix 2<\/span><\/i> (2018), <\/span>Alabaster<\/span><\/i>, diptych (2018) and <\/span>Non-Object<\/span><\/i> (Triangle Twist) 2014 make a powerful impression.<\/span><\/p>\n