Modern British art is now presenting its noticeable quote of inspiration to extremely stylized eccentricity, characterised by harsh radical beauty devoid of frills. The exciting occasion is provided by the exhibition that is taking place till 13th September in the Pac in Milan together with the title "Passports. Travelling with art - 75 years of painting, photography and installations in the British Council collection". Hence, it is not simply a celebration with the anniversary of this famous British institution, but also a technique to retrace a journey amongst the greatest stars of 20th and 21st century British Art.

The decision was tough: the Irish painter Michael Craig-Martin, who curated the occasion, has selected about forty well-known functions from a collection, the British Council art collection, which boasts more than eight thousand operates.

The title from the exhibition, "Passports", refers for the journey created by the works considering the fact that they had been bought. An actual itinerary in art across international boundaries, which will show to the spectators the passport of every single piece, consisting of all the museums and galleries which have hosted them more than the decades. Documented movements on exhibition. So for instance: the picture Hill Property by Peter Doig, one of the most extraordinary painters of our days, arrives from South Africa, while Chris Ofili's work, realised with elephant dung, from Nigeria.

If the British Council's works, for their fate, travel so much, they initially price very little. Following an precise acquiring policy, the curators of your British institution intercept emerging artists. A few examples for everyone: the famous Girl with Roses by Lucian Freud, on the list of greatest living figurative painters, was bought in 1948 for 158 pounds, when Apotryptophanae by Damien Hirst was purchased in 1994 for eight,500 pounds. Both Freud and Hirst are now worth dozens of millions.

Highlight of the performs on view at the PAC is unquestionably the currently pointed out masterpiece by Lucian Freud Girl with Roses (1947-48), a portrait of Kitty, the artist's first wife, characterised by a strong psychological effect. The operate has been to greater than twenty-five nations at over eighty exhibitions given that it was purchased in 1948 by the British Council.

Unmissable Anish Kapoor, undoubtedly on the list of most significant authors in the world contemporary art scene. His operates, in continual dialogue in between two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality, have permitted him to acquire a prominent part within the New British Sculpture, name with which the critics have designated the new scene of English sculpture which incorporates artists like Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Bill Woodrow and Antony Gormely, all obviously present in the event. A different outstanding presence for his sculptural method is Henry Moore, sublime master of British sculpture.

There is also the provocative and irreverent undesirable boy of contemporary art, Damien Hirst. The artist from Bristol, who in the age of 44 can currently boast a mind-boggling wealth achieved by immersing the Young British Art into blue formalin, is showing us with Apotryptophanae a significantly less recognized but extremely exciting aspect of his art, due to the fact regardless of the scabrous and revolting themes of his most discussed and popular performs, Hirst is an extraordinarily philosophical and skilful artist, and his compositions are exceptionally elegant, with a excellent attention for components and for formal and chromatic values.

"Passports. Travelling with art" is an exceptional overview in which we are able to also admire the desecrating and ironic art on the Gilbert & George duo, continuing with Douglas Gordon, Richard Long, Sarah Lucas and next for the images by David Hockney, Frank Auerbach, Graham Sutherland, we can appreciate Bridget Riley's optical waves and Sean Scully's grates dominated by a rigorously simple abstractionism.

The exhibition, considered a unique chance to admire the early functions of the fantastic names of contemporary art made within the UK, is also an occasion to launch "The Fifth Curator", a competition for aspiring curators which will allow the winner to access the British Council's collection to realise an exhibition planned for 10th April 2010 at the Whitechapel in London.