Guggenheim and Azimut

The exhibition, curate by Luca Massimo Barbero, aims to enhance the key role that Azimuth had in both International and national post-war scene, intergenerational bridge and meeting point between the new generation and the conservative revolutionary. a new artistic conception of "continuity and new" was implemented, the idea of the exhibition is to bring the visitor to the protagonists of Italian and European avant-garde of late 1950s, early 1960s, in particular by the then new generation of nascent Neo-Dada, who was promoted from Azimuth in advance of the wider attention of the critics. The Neo Dada is an artistic movement, characterized by the use of modern materials, by Parties of the popular imagination and absurd contrasts. Also openly denies traditional concepts of aesthetics. Works of Manzoni, Burri and Fontana. Alberto Burri famous for using  canvas bags in his paintings, Fontana remembered for stone and glass fragments in his works. However, only thanks to artists such as Piero Manzoni one can speak of a real affirmation of the Italian neodadaismo. Unlike the American artists in them is concentrated the whole irony of the historical Dadaism, together with the joy for the game. In support of this are boxes of Merda d'artista (1961) by Piero Manzoni, with which he refers to the transformation of the artistic work in the consumer goods, ready to be placed on the shelves of a supermarket and sold.
The review is based on a simple theme, consisting of the provenance of each of the exhibits from the gallery or from the journal Azimuth/h, or from orbit of the closest artistic twisted contacts from one and the other. Visitors will be thus to get in touch with almost all the major protagonists of contemporary conceptual art including Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, YvesKlein, Jean Tinguely, Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker.

Opening hours 10-18 every day
Closed Tuesdays and December 25.
Ticket: Euro 14 adults, 12 Euro agreement and seniorover 65 years, 8 euro students up to 26 years old, free for children up to 10 years and associates

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