{"id":4582,"date":"2014-01-31T14:04:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T13:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=4582"},"modified":"2014-01-31T18:56:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T17:56:53","slug":"at-the-frick-the-two-legs-of-a-challenging-relation-monumentality-and-dynamics-in-the-hills-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/31\/at-the-frick-the-two-legs-of-a-challenging-relation-monumentality-and-dynamics-in-the-hills-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Frick the two legs of a challenging relation: monumentality and dynamics in the Hill&#8217;s collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4582 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/31\/at-the-frick-the-two-legs-of-a-challenging-relation-monumentality-and-dynamics-in-the-hills-collection\/02c-15c_herc_ant_det4_600\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/02c-15C_Herc_Ant_Det4_600.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Attributed to Maso Finiguerra (Florence, 1426\u201364) \u201cHercules and Antaeus\u201d (detail), cast ca. 1460 Brass H: 25.2 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4583\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4583'>\n\t\t\t\tAttributed to Maso Finiguerra (Florence, 1426\u201364) \u201cHercules and Antaeus\u201d (detail), cast ca. 1460 Brass H: 25.2 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/31\/at-the-frick-the-two-legs-of-a-challenging-relation-monumentality-and-dynamics-in-the-hills-collection\/03a_astron_ft-2_600-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/03a_Astron_Ft-2_6001.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Giambologna (Douai, ca.1529\u20131608, Florence) \u201cAstronomy\u201d, cast early 1570s Bronze H: 38.8 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4585\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4585'>\n\t\t\t\tGiambologna (Douai, ca.1529\u20131608, Florence) \u201cAstronomy\u201d, cast early 1570s Bronze H: 38.8 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Maggie Nimkin Photography\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/31\/at-the-frick-the-two-legs-of-a-challenging-relation-monumentality-and-dynamics-in-the-hills-collection\/22_fontana_600\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"117\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/22_Fontana_600.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Lucio Fontana (Rosario, 1899\u20131968, Varese) \u201cCrocifisso\u201d (\u201cChrist on the Cross\u201d), 1950\u201352 Glazed terracotta 49.8 x 31.4 x 12.7 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill \u00a9 Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan Photo: Michael Bodycomb\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4586\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4586'>\n\t\t\t\tLucio Fontana (Rosario, 1899\u20131968, Varese) \u201cCrocifisso\u201d (\u201cChrist on the Cross\u201d), 1950\u201352 Glazed terracotta 49.8 x 31.4 x 12.7 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill \u00a9 Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan Photo: Michael Bodycomb\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/31\/at-the-frick-the-two-legs-of-a-challenging-relation-monumentality-and-dynamics-in-the-hills-collection\/untitled-1959\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/23_Untitled-1959_600.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Cy Twombly (Lexington, Virginia, 1928\u20132011, Rome) \u201cUntitled\u201d, 1959 Oil paint, wax crayon, and lead pencil on canvas 97.5 x 136.5 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill \u00a9Cy Twombly Foundation Photo: Michael Bodycomb\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4587\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4587'>\n\t\t\t\tCy Twombly (Lexington, Virginia, 1928\u20132011, Rome) \u201cUntitled\u201d, 1959 Oil paint, wax crayon, and lead pencil on canvas 97.5 x 136.5 cm Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill \u00a9Cy Twombly Foundation Photo: Michael Bodycomb\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/31\/at-the-frick-the-two-legs-of-a-challenging-relation-monumentality-and-dynamics-in-the-hills-collection\/renaissance-and-baroque-bronzes-from-the-hill-collection\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"92\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/28_Hill-Installation_04_600.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Installation view at The Frick Collection showing Adriaen de Vries\u2019s, \u201cBacchic Man Wearing a Grotesque Mask\u201d with Ed Ruscha\u2019s, \u201cSeventeenth Century\u201d, \u00a9 Ed Ruscha, from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; photo: Michael Bodycomb\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4588\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4588'>\n\t\t\t\tInstallation view at The Frick Collection showing Adriaen de Vries\u2019s, \u201cBacchic Man Wearing a Grotesque Mask\u201d with Ed Ruscha\u2019s, \u201cSeventeenth Century\u201d, \u00a9 Ed Ruscha, from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; photo: Michael Bodycomb\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/31\/at-the-frick-the-two-legs-of-a-challenging-relation-monumentality-and-dynamics-in-the-hills-collection\/renaissance-and-baroque-bronzes-from-the-hill-collection-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/29_Hill-Installation_05_600.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Installation view at The Frick Collection showing Adriaen de Vries\u2019s, \u201cBacchic Man Wearing a Grotesque Mask\u201d with Cy Twombly\u2019s, \u201cUntitled\u201d, 1959, \u00a9Cy Twombly Foundation, both works from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; photo: Michael Bodycomb\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4589\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4589'>\n\t\t\t\tInstallation view at The Frick Collection showing Adriaen de Vries\u2019s, \u201cBacchic Man Wearing a Grotesque Mask\u201d with Cy Twombly\u2019s, \u201cUntitled\u201d, 1959, \u00a9Cy Twombly Foundation, both works from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; photo: Michael Bodycomb \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/31\/at-the-frick-the-two-legs-of-a-challenging-relation-monumentality-and-dynamics-in-the-hills-collection\/renaissance-and-baroque-bronzes-from-the-hill-collection-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/30_Hill-Installation_06_600.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Installation view at The Frick Collection showing Giuseppe Piamontini\u2019s \u201cPrince Ferdinando di Cosimo III on Horseback\u201d with Cy Twombly\u2019s \u201cUntitled\u201d (detail), \u201cChalkboard\u201d series, 1970, \u00a9Cy Twombly Foundation, both works from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; photo: Michael Bodycomb\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4590\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4590'>\n\t\t\t\tInstallation view at The Frick Collection showing Giuseppe Piamontini\u2019s \u201cPrince Ferdinando di Cosimo III on Horseback\u201d with Cy Twombly\u2019s \u201cUntitled\u201d (detail), \u201cChalkboard\u201d series, 1970, \u00a9Cy Twombly Foundation, both works from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; photo: Michael Bodycomb\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/31\/at-the-frick-the-two-legs-of-a-challenging-relation-monumentality-and-dynamics-in-the-hills-collection\/renaissance-and-baroque-bronzes-from-the-hill-collection-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"94\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/34_Hill-Installation_15_600.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Installation view at The Frick Collection showing Adriaen de Vries\u2019s, Bacchic Man Wearing a Grotesque Mask and Giuseppe Piamontini\u2019s \u201cPrince Ferdinando di Cosimo III on Horseback\u201d with Ed Ruscha\u2019s, \u201cSeventeenth Century\u201d, \u00a9 Ed Ruscha, both works from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; photo: Michael Bodycomb\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4591\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4591'>\n\t\t\t\tInstallation view at The Frick Collection showing Adriaen de Vries\u2019s, Bacchic Man Wearing a Grotesque Mask and Giuseppe Piamontini\u2019s \u201cPrince Ferdinando di Cosimo III on Horseback\u201d with Ed Ruscha\u2019s, \u201cSeventeenth Century\u201d, \u00a9 Ed Ruscha, both works from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; photo: Michael Bodycomb \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/31\/at-the-frick-the-two-legs-of-a-challenging-relation-monumentality-and-dynamics-in-the-hills-collection\/renaissance-and-baroque-bronzes-from-the-hill-collection-5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/37_Cabinet_06.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Installation view showing a pairing in the Frick&#039;s Cabinet gallery: Alessandro Algardi&#039;s Cristo Vivo (\u201cThe Living Christ on the Cross\u201d), juxtaposed with Lucio Fontana&#039;s Crocifisso (\u201cChrist on the Cross\u201d), \u00a9 Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan; photo: Michael Bodycomb\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4592\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4592'>\n\t\t\t\tInstallation view showing a pairing in the Frick&#8217;s Cabinet gallery:  Alessandro Algardi&#8217;s Cristo Vivo (\u201cThe Living Christ on the  Cross\u201d), juxtaposed with Lucio Fontana&#8217;s Crocifisso (\u201cChrist on the Cross\u201d), \u00a9 Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan; photo: Michael Bodycomb\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The collection of Janine and J. Tomilson Hill is generally known for the many masterpieces of art from the second half of the 20th century it preserves. But thanks to the exhibition opened two days ago at the Frick Collection (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frick.org\/exhibitions\/hill\" target=\"_blank\">Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection<\/a>, until june 15th), the attention that the current powerful vice-president of the Blackstone group and his wife have for bronze statuettes produced from the Renaissance to the Baroque period is finally unearthed; with the advise of Pat Wengraf the couple have collected works by famous artists such as Andrea Riccio, Giambologna, Adriaen de Vries, or lesser-known ones, like Caspar Gras and Hans Reichle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Details about the collection are provided by FT&#8217;s art expert <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/55f966a4-2cfd-11e3-8281-00144feab7de.html#axzz2rxyL2OeC\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Moore<\/a>, who probably had the chance to visit the collector&#8217;s house. But from our point of view the engaging key of the exhibition is of course the relationship between ancient and contemporary art that seems to be based on two legs. The first one, sharply pointed out by Moore, is monumentality (even in small scale). The second one is an aesthetic category too: dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The topic of \u201cdynamic\u201d can be perfectly grasped in the dialogue between the \u201cBacchic man wearing a grotesque mask\u201d by Adrien de Vries and Cy Twombly&#8217;s \u201cUntitled\u201d from 1959 (as seen in the image). The four accumulations of lines on the canvas describing a semi circle on the left side perfectly reflect the bronze&#8217;s head, left arm and legs, going through a kind of tension, or rigidity. Moreover, if you look carefully, the Twombly&#8217;s seem to map the glares of light on the lucid surface of the sculpture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A dialogue of the same kind is set between the \u201cPrince Ferdinando di Cosimo III on horseback\u201d by Giuseppe Piamontini and another untiled work by Twombly that, in this case, provides a perfect \u201cpsychological\u201d background for this too relaxed nose-up of the penultimate Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The collection of Janine and J. Tomilson Hill is generally known for the many masterpieces of art from the second half of the 20th century it preserves. But thanks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1603,1602,1601,716],"class_list":["post-4582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senza-categoria","tag-cy-twombly","tag-edward-ruscha","tag-giambologna","tag-lucio-fontana"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}