PITTURA OGGETTO

3 Jun-26 Jul 2014

Overview

Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani, Dadamaino, Paolo Scheggi, Turi Simeti. Curated by Natacha Garron. The Italian art scene of the 1960s was both very active and well informed of foreign developments. Jasper Johns and Rauschenberg had exhibitions in Italy as early as 1958, and some of their artworks were reproduced in the first issue of Azimuth, the review launched by Castellani and Manzoni in 1959. Yves Klein, John Cage and Pierre Restany were present in Milan at the time, weighing in on the debate on Informalism, a defining issue of 1950s modernism. The discussion was imbued with an end-of-art atmosphere, indissociable from a discourse of renunciation and radicality: ancient art has ceased to exist and art must start over again for it to cease existing.