Galleria Christian Stein, Galleria Sperone e Galleria Il Punto - Torino
Con/temp/l'azione
4 December 1967 – February 1968
Turin, Christian Stein, Sperone and Il Punto Galleries
curated by Daniela Palazzoli
In December 1967, three Turin galleries – Christian Stein, Sperone and Il Punto – decided to do something unusual: join forces and organise an exhibition together that would break the rules of the art world. The result was Con/temp/l'azione, an event curated by Daniela Palazzoli that marked a milestone in 20th-century Italian art.
The underlying idea was simple yet revolutionary: art should not be confined within a gallery. It must go out, walk the streets, and mingle with people’s lives. This is precisely what happens with Michelangelo Pistoletto, who rolls his enormous Sfera di giornali (Ball of Newspapers ) along the streets of central Turin, together with the other artists, the gallery owner Gian Enzo Sperone, the curator and passers-by who spontaneously join the procession.
Among the artists on display is also Aldo Mondino, who in those same years was exploring in Turin the possibilities of art capable of inhabiting urban space, as demonstrated by the famous red thread installation which, in 1966, physically connected the same three galleries across the city’s streets.
In those years, Turin was the beating heart of Arte Povera, a movement that challenged fine materials and traditional art venues. Con/temp/l'azione was one of its most vibrant and libertarian moments: an invitation to view the city as an open-air exhibition space, where the boundary between artwork and everyday life ceases to exist.
Con/temp/l'azione - Gallerie Christian Stein, Sperone e Il Punto
Pagina del catalogo della mostra "Con/temp/l'azione" dedicato ad Aldo Mondino