POP/BEAT, Exhibition Palladian Basilica, Vicenza

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POP/BEAT:

Italy 1960-1979 Free to Dream

From 2 March to 28 July 2024

Palladian Basilica

Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza

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This is the painting, sculpture, video, and literature project, unprecedented for Italy, that the artist Roberto Floreani conceived and curated for the Municipality of Vicenza and Silvana Editoriale - who have taken on its co-production - for the prestigious spaces of the Basilica Palladiana, with works coming from the main national museums, galleries, and private collections. For the first time, the Italian Pop and Beat generations are told and exhibited together, witnesses of a common feeling of those years, linked to an optimistic vision of the future and the activist commitment of the Sixty-Eight, making themselves original and autonomous from the American Pop and Beat influences, which for too many years have been considered decisive. The unique proposal and the absolute stature of Italian Pop in Europe will be highlighted, as well as the substantial differences and autonomy of its artists compared to the American ones. In Italy, a grassroots approach will be fostered, sensitive to the national artistic tradition, the landscape, the Futurist avant-garde, which will be at the forefront of social, political, and cultural changes in squares, streets, factories, universities: issues that have become the subject of a large part of the works and documents on display. Therefore, distant from those of American artists and writers, soon pampered in the commercial and university environment, often received as authentic stars and oriented towards the evidence of mass consumption products amplified by advertising. The Pop section, with almost a hundred selected works by thirty-five artists, will focus on large formats that will be spectacularized by a wide section of sculptures. Works by Valerio Adami, Franco Angeli, Enrico Baj, Paolo Baratella, Roberto Barni, Gianni Bertini, Alik Cavaliere, Mario Ceroli, Claudio Cintoli, Lucio Del Pezzo, Fernando De Filippi, Bruno Di Bello, Tano Festa, Giosetta Fioroni, Pietro Gallina, Piero Gilardi, Sergio Lombardo, Roberto Malquori, Renato Mambor, Elio Marchegiani, Umberto Mariani, Gino Marotta, Titina Maselli, Fabio Mauri, Aldo Mondino, Ugo Nespolo, Pino Pascali, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Concetto Pozzati, Mimmo Rotella, Sergio Sarri, Mario Schifano, Giangiacomo Spadari, Tino Stefanoni, Cesare Tacchi, Emilio Tadini will be present.

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	opens - closes	last entry
monday	Closed now
tuesday	10:00 - 18:00	17:30
wednesday	10:00 - 18:00	17:30
thursday	10:00 - 18:00	17:30
friday	10:00 - 18:00	17:30
saturday	10:00 - 18:00	17:30
sunday	10:00 - 18:00	17:30

POP/BEAT:

Italy 1960-1979 Free to Dream

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