Pinacoteca Agnelli announces the next exhibition project, the unprecedented solo show dedicated to Lee Lozano (1930–1999), pioneer artist and key figure on the New York scene in the 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition, entitled Strike, is conceived and created by Pinacoteca Agnelli, and will open to the public from Wednesday 8 March to Sunday 23 July 2023 in the museum spaces of Turin. It will subsequently be presented at the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection in Paris from 20 September 2023 to 12 February 2024. Strike, curated by Sarah Cosulich and Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti , is Lee Lozano's first monographic exhibition in Italy .

The exhibition is coherently part of the institution's renewed contemporary mission, which aims to bring to light unprecedented artistic perspectives in relation to the historical and symbolic legacy of the exhibition venue and its industrial past. The exhibition brings together a wide selection of the artist's works, spanning his short but extremely prolific career from 1960 to 1972 . Trained as a painter in Chicago, Lee Lozano moved to New York and quickly established herself on the art scene of the 1960s, distinguishing herself with a multifaceted work that encompasses painting on the one hand, and a deeply conceptual practice on the other. While participating in the social and artistic context of the time, dominated by pop art, minimalism and conceptual art, Lozano maintains a position radically opposed to any form of categorization and system of power.

Strike proposes an exhibition itinerary that crosses the various periods of his work, starting with the figurative drawings and paintings of an expressionist style, passing through the series of Tools (tools), large-sized oils on canvas, and following their formal evolution towards a minimalist abstraction. The exhibition project also brings together a selection of Language Pieces, works that mark the artist's transition to an exclusively conceptual phase which ended in 1972 with Dropout Piece, corresponding to his definitive abandonment of the art scene.