La Santa delle cause perse e dei casi impossibili: usi artistici dell’ex-voto in 'Ex-voto offert au sanctuaire de Sainte-Rita de Cascia' di Yves Klein e 'I miracoli di Val Morel' di Dino Buzzati

Giovanni Galeano

doi:10.18352/incontri.10270

La Santa delle cause perse e dei casi impossibili: usi artistici dell’ex-voto in 'Ex-voto offert au sanctuaire de Sainte-Rita de Cascia' di Yves Klein e 'I miracoli di Val Morel' di Dino Buzzati

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Giovanni Galeano /

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https://doi.org/10.18352/incontri.10270

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ex-voto, Santa Rita da Cascia, Yves Klein, Dino Buzzati, arte contemporanea

Abstract

The Saint of the Desperate Cases and Lost causes: Artistic Uses of the ex-voto in Ex-voto offert au sanctuaire de Sainte-Rita de Cascia by Yves Klein and I Miracoli di Val Morel by Dino Buzzati

This article presents a comparative study onYves Klein’s Ex-voto offert à Sainte-Rita de Cascia and Dino Buzzati’s I miracoli di Val Morel. Firstly, it discusses how the votive forms of ex-voto circulate in contemporary art, following previous researches on the insertion of non-artistic elements in art by Julius von Schlosser and Georges Didi-Huberman. Secondly, it accounts for the interpretation of ex-voto as a performative art in a comparative analysis of Klein’s and Buzzati’s artworks. Finally, with a focus on Il colombre by Buzzati and the offert composed by Klein, it draws conclusions on the transformation of the ex-voto from devotional to contemporary art forms in both authors.

Author Biography

Giovanni Galeano, /

Giovanni Galeano, nato a Messina, si è laureato all’Università di Bologna. In sede di laurea magistrale ha discusso una tesi in Letterature Comparate su alcune occorrenze dell’informe di Rosalind Krauss ne I miracoli di Val Morel di Dino Buzzati. Co-fondatore e direttore della rivista ed associazione studentesca Fornofilia e Filatelia, ha approfondito anche tematiche riguardanti il paesaggio nel cinema e l’importanza del paratesto nell’opera letteraria.

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2018-12-22

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Galeano, G. (2018) “La Santa delle cause perse e dei casi impossibili: usi artistici dell’ex-voto in ’Ex-voto offert au sanctuaire de Sainte-Rita de Cascia’ di Yves Klein e ’I miracoli di Val Morel’ di Dino Buzzati”, Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani, 33(2), pp. 89–101. doi: 10.18352/incontri.10270.

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Vol. 33 No. 2 (2018): L'Italia e la Francia: Scambi culturali / Italy and France: Cultural Exchanges

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