Io non amo la natura
from 26 May 2017 to 22 October 2017
Cuneo
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curated by Riccardo Passoni
under the patronage of MiBACT – Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism
under the patronage of MiBACT – Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism
CUNEO
San Francesco Monumental Complex, former Church of San Francesco
San Francesco Monumental Complex, former Church of San Francesco
Opening: Friday 26 May 2017 – 5.30 pm
The CRC Foundation and the GAM – Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, under the patronage of MiBACT – Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, present I Do Not Love Nature – Italian Pop Art from the collections of the GAM-Turin , curated by Riccardo Passoni , on display in Cuneo at the San Francesco Monumental Complex from Saturday 27 May 2017 to Sunday 22 October 2017.
The exhibition – promoted by the CRC Foundation to mark its 25th anniversary, established in January 1992 – offers an overview of Italian Pop Art through a selection of fifty works, including paintings, sculptures and videos, all from the GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin.
The exhibition stems from a desire to reflect on the historical development of Pop Art in Italy, in light of the recent renewed critical interest. The main aspects on which critics have focused in re-examining the phenomenon include, on the one hand, a study of the news reports of those years, seeking direct parallels with the arrival and explosion of the American Pop phenomenon on Italian soil, and on the other, a focus on the cultural and linguistic origins of Italian artists, highlighting their similarities and differences compared to their international counterparts.
The exhibition stems from a desire to reflect on the historical development of Pop Art in Italy, in light of the recent renewed critical interest. The main aspects on which critics have focused in re-examining the phenomenon include, on the one hand, a study of the news reports of those years, seeking direct parallels with the arrival and explosion of the American Pop phenomenon on Italian soil, and on the other, a focus on the cultural and linguistic origins of Italian artists, highlighting their similarities and differences compared to their international counterparts.
The exhibition occupies the evocative spaces of the San Francesco Monumental Complex in Cuneo – restored and returned to the city in 2011 thanks to substantial funding from the CRC Foundation and adjacent to the Cuneo Civic Museum – and aims to reconstruct the wide range of Italian works that emerged in the early 1960s. During those years, there were numerous parallels between the progressive yet rapid rise of American Pop Art and the Italian scene, particularly in the cities of Rome and Turin, as well as the movement of artists and their artistic expressions.
The exhibition itinerary illustrates, through a selection of works, the different stylistic variations of the artists, including Mario Schifano, Franco Angeli, Tano Festa, Giosetta Fioroni, Sergio Lombardo, Fabio Mauri and Mario Ceroli, who were active on the Roman scene, alongside figures such as Jannis Kounellis and Pino Pascali. On the Turin side, the exhibition brings together works by Ugo Nespolo, Aldo Mondino, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Piero Gilardi and Antonio Carena. In the background, amongst the many other works on display – also intended to present important related outcomes, not explicitly Pop but contextualisable within that climate of development and research – are examples of the pioneering work of Mimmo Rotella and Enrico Baj.
The exhibition is rounded off by works from the Guido and Ettore De Fornaris Foundation and the CRT Foundation for Modern and Contemporary Art, all housed at the GAM in Turin.
“An exhibition we are proud to promote together with the CRC Foundation, which allows us to display works from our museum’s prestigious collection in Cuneo, within the truly unique setting of the monumental complex of San Francesco, enabling them to re-emerge in a new exhibition context,” adds Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, director of the GAM in Turin.
“All the works on display come from the GAM,” explains Riccardo Passoni, curator of the exhibition and deputy director of the GAM in Turin . “And it is important to emphasise that most of them have been part of our collections for a very long time. This was made possible above all thanks to the arrival at the museum, in the mid-1960s, of the collection from the Experimental Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1963 by Eugenio Battisti at the Institute of Art History of the University of Genoa. Re-examining that important collection from this new perspective has been a real surprise for us, precisely because of the wealth of works on the theme of Pop Art and related movements.”
“We are extremely pleased with this collaboration with the GAM ,”says Giandomenico Genta, President of the CRC Foundation . “IDon’t Love Nature is, first and foremost, a major event of great appeal and significance for the promotion of tourism and culture in Cuneo and the surrounding area. Furthermore, this year marks the CRC Foundation’s 25th anniversary: an occasion we wished to celebrate with this exhibition, a unique opportunity to bring our fellow citizens, young people and schools closer to the world of art.”
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Silvana Editoriale.
The exhibition is sponsored by MiBACT – the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.
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