On the eve of the two hundred years since Canova's death , the Antonio Canova Gypsotheca Museum has chosen to use its spaces in the promotion and celebration of the Artist through a series of exhibitions. A path that indicates the contemporaneity of the great masters and their ideas with the interpreters of our time.

The Antonio Canova and contemporary sculpture exhibition is part of these celebrations and tells the challenge of some contemporary sculptors, all competing with Canova: Marcello Tommasi, Wolfgang Alexander Kossuth, Girolamo Ciulla, Giuseppe Bergomi, Giuseppe Ducrot, Filippo Dobrilla, Livio Scarpella, Ettore Greco, Aron Demetz, Fabio Viale and Jago.

The project, conceived by Vittorio Sgarbi , is carried out by Contemplazioni, in collaboration with the Antonio Canova Gypsotheca Museum, thanks to the support of Intesa Sanpaolo.

Canova is certainly the greatest exponent of neoclassical art, with his taste for perfect symmetries, soft and smooth surfaces, solemn and controlled poses, impassive expressions. He does not passively imitate the ancient, he prefers to interpret its spirit, nor does he close himself to Baroque art, as revealed by his youthful admiration for Bernini and Antonio Corradini.