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Italics
Italian Art Between Tradition & Revolution 1968-2008
Edited By Francesco Bonami
December 2008
Mondadori Electa, Milan, Italy
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
9788837064013
312 Pages, Illustrated
$97.50 Hardcover
Italics takes up where the celebrated exhibition Italian Metamorphosis, put together by Germano Celant in 1995, left off. Important works from the Pinault collection are the focal point the exhibition hinges on, through Arte Povera, Minimalism, Post Pop, Neo Avanguard and the new generations: from artists of the past (Merz, Kounellis, Pascali, Fontana, Boetti, Zorio, Battaglia) to artists of today (Cattelan, Lambri, Tuttofuoco, Arienti, Beecroft).
The
collection of contemporary Italian art on view to the public for the first
time is illustrated by articles untangling the tensions and artistic trends
which have imbued the last 40 years (under the general editorship of Bonami),
and also take a look at the principal artists who characterised them (Gingeras).
The historical, sociological and cultural background (by Empoli, Guerzoni,
Manacorda) is accompanied by a short, but exhaustive, illustrated chronology
(Cagol). In 2009 the exhibition will move to the prestigious headquarters
of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
