The Galleria dell’Accademia will present the restored Pietà da Palestrina, the marble group sculpture attributed to Michelangelo and exhibited in the Tribune of the David. On this occasion at 10.00 p.m. in the Tribune of the David the Galleria dell’Accademia of Florence proposes the video Emergence (2002) by Bill Viola in the presence of the artist himself.
This event intends to suggest a meditation on the theme of the Pietà, a central theme in the life and work of Michelangelo starting from his youth (St. Peter’s Pietà), and then repeatedly in later age (the Bandinelli Pietà intended for his own tomb, and the Rondanini Pietà). It does so through the vision and sensitivity of a great contemporary artist who accompanies us in an 11-minute video along a route with a profound emotional impact whose power is exalted in contrasting the pale figure emerging from the water in a suspended silence with the lifeless body of Christ in Michelangelo’s statue.
The screening will be repeated from 10.00pm to 11.30p.m. and the public will have free admission. The video will be screened from Tuesday 20th April until Sunday 9th May 2010 inside the Galleria dell’Accademia; admission to the screening of the video will be with the Galleria dell’Accademia ticket. On this same occasion, on Tuesday 20th April at 7.00pm, the artist will meet the public for a conference entitled Artistic Practice