PALAZZO GRASSI, VENICE

'ITALICS. ITALIN ART BETWEEN TRADITION AND REVOLUTION, 1968-2008'

09/27/2008 > 01/11/2009

Palazzo Grassi, the fabulous 18th - century residence overlooking the Grand Canal in Venice is getting ready to reopen its doors

to contemporary art with the retrospective “Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968-2008.” The exhibition’s curator, Francesco Bonami, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,  hopes that it will also bring a public which is not familiar with contemporary art closer to the artistic production of the last forty years.

Two hundred works by over one hundred artists will be on display to mark the stages in a journey beginning with the decisive date of ’68 to continue right up to the present. It is an anthology of the last forty years of art in Italy which highlights revolutionary changes and the importance of tradition, featuring works by Pascali and Cattelan, by Merz and Clemente, by Vedova and Vanessa Croft, by Luciano Fabro and Patrick Tuttofuoco, but also the most recent De Chirico or Guttuso of “I Funerali di Togliatti”.

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