Image series 41 / 2020: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Carceri d'Invenzione
4 October 2020
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By: Bettina Pfleging
As an archaeologist, artist, architect, collector, designer, publisher and author Giovanni Battista Piranesi made an international career in the 18th century. He took reality in all its facets and transformed it into something new, his principle of success. In Venice, for example, he came into contact with the opera and theater scene, took up their ideas and used them to dramatize his compositions, for example in the sixteen records of the Carceri d’Invenzione. The dungeon constructions and architectural fantasies express manifold contradictions and irrational entanglements.
On the occasion of his 300th birthday, the anniversary exhibition brings the Piranesi principle to life in five exhibition chapters.
„The Piranesi Principle. Marking the 300th Birthday of the Great Italian Master“
4 October 2020 to 7 February 2021, Kunstbibliothek, Berlin
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Titelblad til Carceri d’invenzione (Imaginære fængsler) | Imaginary prisons, Ausschnitt, 1748 – 1749, 54,5 × 41 cm, Copenhagen; Statens Museum for Kunst, Statens Museum for Kunst
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Tav. III delle Carceri (secundo stato), Ausschnitt; DiDi – Digitale Diathek, Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Technische Universität Berlin
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Boog met doorkijk op arcade met een fries – Boog met doorkijk op arcade met een fries | Het grote plein | Kerkers | Carceri d’invenzione, Ausschnitt, 1761, paperetching, 54,2 × 41,1 cm, Amsterdam; Rijksmuseum Collection, Amsterdam
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Tav. VI delle Carceri (primo stato), Ausschnitt, 54 × 40 cm; DiDi – Digitale Diathek, Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Technische Universität Berlin
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. “Carceri d’invenzione”: Blatt 7, Die Zugbrücke, Ausschnitt, nach 1778, 76,2 × 53,2 cm (gesamt), Stuttgart; Imago, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Tav. VIII delle Carceri (secondo stato), Ausschnitt, 54,5 × 40 cm; DiDi – Digitale Diathek, Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Technische Universität Berlin
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Carceri. Das große Rad, Ausschnitt, Berlin; bpk – Bildportal der Kunstmuseen, Bildagentur für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Prisoners on a Projecting Platform, from Carceri d’invenzione (Imaginary Prisons), Ausschnitt, ca. 1749-50, 49,5 × 64 cm, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
