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SUMMARY:De Humana Mensura: Karshan Comes to Rome
DESCRIPTION:Venue: Palazzo della Cancelleria\, Rome \nDate: 17 December 2025 – 19 January 2026 \nThe sixteenth-century halls of the Palazzo della Cancelleria hosted De Humana Mensura\, Linda Karshan’s first exhibition in the Italian capital\, staged in the closing weeks of the Jubilee Year of Hope. Curated by Laura Villani\, the show brought together\, for the first time\, a selection of Karshan’s works drawn from Italian and international collections\, gathered to restore a dialogue the artist has long carried on with the Renaissance: with Leonardo and Michelangelo\, with Plato and Alberti\, with an idea of harmony that moves across centuries rather than settling into any one of them. \nFew venues could make that argument more persuasively than the Cancelleria itself. Built in the late fifteenth century\, with a courtyard attributed to Bramante and a piano nobile frescoed by Vasari in a famous hundred days in 1546\, the palazzo is one of the Renaissance’s most complete surviving statements in stone. To install Karshan’s works on paper within it was to let two expressions of the same proportional thinking\, four centuries apart\, address each other directly. \nThe show opened on 17 December with a Walked Drawing\, a site-specific performance conceived for the Sala Vasari. Under Vasari’s mannerist frescoes\, Karshan traced an invisible drawing with her own body — footsteps becoming line\, breath marking rhythm\, the same choreographic method behind her works on paper\, now filling the volume of a Renaissance state room. Reviewers present described a folding of time in the room\, as if the geometry in the walls and the geometry being drawn by a living body had briefly become one thing. \nThe inauguration gathered voices from across Karshan’s Roman reception: His Excellency Marco Salvi\, Bishop of Civita Castellana\, spoke on the Renaissance between Piero della Francesca’s perspective and Leonardo’s geometry; Laura Villani introduced what she called an elective affinity between the artist and the palazzo; and Giulia Martina Weston — who curated The Universe on Paper at the Domus Comeliana in 2022 — spoke on the humanism running through Karshan’s practice. Villani then interviewed Karshan on her performative method\, in which each mark corresponds to breath\, to the counter-clockwise turn of the paper\, and to a musical counting of time rooted in Plato’s numerical ordering of the cosmos. \nKarshan introduced the exhibition with a thought from Italo Calvino’s Norton Lectures — that a single life can hold the breadth of an encyclopaedia — a fitting frame for a show built from decades of drawings\, scattered across two continents\, reassembled briefly under one Roman roof. It sits comfortably with ACLA’s own conviction: that a body of work\, patiently accumulated over a lifetime\, can be endlessly reordered\, each configuration revealing a different facet of the same underlying order — and that Rome remains one of the truest places to test that idea against stone.
URL:https://acla.fondazionecomel.org/event/de-humana-mensura-karshan-rome/
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SUMMARY:Art Exhibition: Legacies and Visions. From Comel to Karshan
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1705506757731{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 120px !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-6 vc_col-xs-12″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” css=”.vc_custom_1760312111262{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”] \nLegacies and Visions.\nFrom Comel to Karshan\nMasterpieces from the collection of the Institutio Santoriana – Fondazione Comel\n(19th to 21st century)\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Venue: Domus Comeliana\, Pisa \nDates: 27 September – 6 October 2024 \nCurated by Giulia Martina Weston[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column disable_custom_paddings_tablet=”true” disable_custom_paddings_mobile=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1705687289010{margin-left: 0px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}” offset=”vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-6 vc_col-xs-12″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”][/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”25670″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://legacies-and-visions.eventbrite.it/”][/vc_column][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1578656655697{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]The exhibition displayed a significant body of unpublished artworks from the collection of Professor Marcello Comel (1902–1995)\, founder of the Institutio Santoriana – Fondazione Comel. Best known for his lifelong commitment to medicine and medical humanities\, Comel emerges as a visionary patron and a distinguished collector. \nThe selection of masterpieces included paintings by Gerolamo Induno\, Moses Levy\, Giovanni Lomi\, Arturo Tosi\, Lorenzo Delleani\, Giuseppe Pallanti\, Carlo Sbisà and Arturo Nathan\, as well as works on paper by Telemaco Signorini\, Mario Sironi\, Filippo De Pisis and Renato Guttuso. Furthermore\, the show unveiled a suite of drawings by American artist Linda Karshan\, belonging to various stages of her career. Forming the core of her prestigious gift to the Fondazione Comel\, these magnificent artworks document the relevance of Comel’s collection in the present and its impact upon future generations. \nCatalogue Artemide edited by Giulia Martina Weston.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1729076671670{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]”La cultura è fondamentalmente unità spirituale” / Culture is fundamentally a spiritual unity \nMarcello Comel\, De Humanis Humane (1976) \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       [/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://acla.fondazionecomel.org/event/art-exhibition-legacies-and-visions-from-comel-to-karshan/
LOCATION:Domus Comeliana\, Via Cardinale Pietro Maffi 48\, Pisa\, 56126\, Italy
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Art Exhibition: The Universe on Paper. The Art of Linda Karshan
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1705506757731{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 120px !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-6 vc_col-xs-12″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” css=”.vc_custom_1706255803335{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”] \nThe Universe on Paper.\nThe Art of Linda Karshan\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Venue: Domus Comeliana\, Pisa \nDates: 13-16 October \nCurated by Giulia Martina Weston \n—– \nThe exhibition is sponsored by[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_single_image image=”1182″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”1184″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column disable_custom_paddings_tablet=”true” disable_custom_paddings_mobile=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1540472881684{margin-left: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}” offset=”vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-6 vc_col-xs-12″][/vc_column][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1578656655697{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]This exhibition displays a fine selection of the works produced by distinguished artist Linda Karshan during various stages of her career. Born in Minneapolis (Minnesota) in 1947\, Linda Karshan was educated at Skidmore College\, Saratoga Springs\, New York\, from 1965 to 1966\, under the tuition of the architect Robert Reed\, a pupil of Josef Albers (1888-1976)\, a founding member of the Bauhaus. As an émigré\, Albers was a protagonist of Geometrical Abstract painting in America.\nKarshan’s subsequent studies at the Sorbonne in Paris\, the Slade School of Art in London and the Antioch Centre for British Studies\, London deepened her expertise in art history\, especially Renaissance Art\, and in psychology. Notably\, her MA thesis of 1983\, entitled Play\, Creativity and the Birth of the Self\, focused on Donald W. Winnicott’s theories of transitional space and creativity\, which are central to Karshan’s artistic practice.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][/vc_column][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-6″ css=”.vc_custom_1590571662912{margin-right: 15px !important;}”][vc_column_text]In 1994\, Linda Karshan developed a performance-based method to bring her drawings into existence. Guided by what she has termed her ‘inner choreography’\, the artist draws freehand\, standing at a table\, and\, despite being left-handed\, uses her right. As she reaches forward with her graphite pencil\, her left leg rises up naturally\, so she balances like a ballerina in an arabesque and draws a line to a rhythm of 1-2\, 3-4\, 5-6\, 7-8. She then goes back over it\, and makes a 90-degree anticlockwise turn of the paper. Thus freed\, or – better – found\, Karshan’s iterative images of intersecting lines\, geometrical shapes and organic patterns stem from her rhythmic breathing\, her anticlockwise turn of the paper\, and the motion of her entire body and mind.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-6″ css=”.vc_custom_1590571667512{margin-left: 15px !important;}”][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”top” custom_css_code=”LndwYi1qcy1jb21wb3NlciUyMCU0MGlkJTIwLnZjX3R0YS52Y19nZW5lcmFsLnZjX3R0YS1hY2NvcmRpb24udmNfdHRhLXN0eWxlLXNpbXBsZV9zb2xpZCUyMC52Y190dGEtcGFuZWwlMkIudmNfdHRhLXBhbmVsJTIwJTdCJTBBJTIwJTIwJTIwJTIwYm9yZGVyLXRvcCUzQSUyMDFweCUyMHNvbGlkJTIwJTIzZGZlNWU4JTNCJTBBJTdE”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-6″ css=”.vc_custom_1590571756877{margin-right: 15px !important;}”][/vc_column][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-6″ css=”.vc_custom_1590571752497{margin-left: 15px !important;}”][vc_column_text]The show aims to shed light on the path pursued by Linda Karshan over several crucial decades of artistic output by presenting a selection starting from a large work of 1983 and culminating in a suite of drawings of 2021\, created during the Covid-19 pandemic. \nAll the pieces presented are on paper\, and testify to the consistency of Karshan’s personal marks – particularly the constructive element of the grid\, either manifest or implied – and the recurrence of seemingly geometrical patterns such as circles\, squares or lozenges.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][/vc_column][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-6″ css=”.vc_custom_1590571662912{margin-right: 15px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Karshan’s oeuvre naturally resonates with chiefly humanistic preoccupations such as the relationship between micro and macrocosms\, the dialectics of gravity and grace\, and an understanding of the body as measure of the universe. \nDisplayed in the prestigious venue of the Domus Comeliana in Pisa – in the first exhibition hosted by the Institutio Santoriana – Fondazione Comel – Karshan’s works become a testament to contemporary humanism.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-6″ css=”.vc_custom_1590571667512{margin-left: 15px !important;}”][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1587051302928{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 118px !important;}”][vc_column]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               [/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”top” custom_css_code=”LndwYi1qcy1jb21wb3NlciUyMCU0MGlkJTIwLnZjX3R0YS52Y19nZW5lcmFsLnZjX3R0YS1hY2NvcmRpb24udmNfdHRhLXN0eWxlLXNpbXBsZV9zb2xpZCUyMC52Y190dGEtcGFuZWwlMkIudmNfdHRhLXBhbmVsJTIwJTdCJTBBJTIwJTIwJTIwJTIwYm9yZGVyLXRvcCUzQSUyMDFweCUyMHNvbGlkJTIwJTIzZGZlNWU4JTNCJTBBJTdE”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://acla.fondazionecomel.org/event/art-exhibition-the-universe-on-paper-the-art-of-linda-karshan/
LOCATION:Domus Comeliana\, Via Cardinale Pietro Maffi 48\, Pisa\, 56126\, Italy
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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