Al Di Là Del Volto

Duo exhibition from 10th July to 7th August, 2021, with Jiří Kolář (1914-2002), a Surrealist Czech artist, poet and writer. "In the middle ground where worlds collide, poetry lives according to the same logic as images. A logic of contingency according to which every image, every poem defines its own principle through the encounters of life. According to Jiří Kolář, with whose works Guttman dialogues, a collage demands its own composition in the same manner as a poem. Life, too, Kolář wrote, is full of eruptions, crystallizations and landslides. There is always something in it that explodes or implodes, that steps out of the picture or withdraws in it. An unpredictable je-ne-sais-quoi, as in dreams, which are there to be dreamed as life is there to be lived." -Excerpt from the text by Chiara Vecchiarelli Chiara Vecchiarelli is the curator of the exhibition. A lecturer at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, she is the author of numerous essays, articles and books with Italian and international publishers, selected for the Furla Prize (2015) and the Maxxi-Bulgari Prize (2017). She is a member of the coordinating committee of the Forum of Italian Contemporary Art.