Marinella Senatore and Sean Scully: Two »Interventions«

As part of the Interventions exhibition series, contemporary artists encounter selected works from the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art in London. Marinella Senatore (born 1977), a multidisciplinary Italian artist, enters into dialogue with paintings by Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, and Gino Severini. The three futurist painters repeatedly dealt with depictions of rebellion and revolt. Senatore's work also has revolutionary traits: her works call for a rethinking of the importance of social coexistence and cooperation. She conveys her message in light sculptures, installations, paintings, drawings, collages, videos, and actions in which she opens up possibilities for participatory art. The exhibition Marinella Senatore: Memory and Celebration runs from October 15 to November 16.

A week earlier, the Estorick Collection opened the exhibition Sean Scully: Mirroring, which is also part of the Interventions series and runs until November 23. Twenty works by the renowned Irish painter (born in 1945), who also has US citizenship, from 1964 to the present day are on display alongside etchings and drawings by Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), considered one of the most important still life painters. The dialogue is rooted in Scully's oeuvre: he studied Morandi's work, which is characterized by flatness and a mysterious atmosphere, intensively. At the same time, the exhibition traces Scully's development from his early representational work through geometric abstraction to his return to figuration. Many of the works on display here have rarely been shown in public before.