Il Nuovo Rit-ratto d'Europa - Identità dell'arte italiana degli ultimi 40 anni

After the great success of Il Nuovo Rit-ratto d'Europa - Identità dell'arte italiana degli ultimi 40 anni/The new Por-trait of Europe - Identity of Italian art in the last forty years at the Académie Royale de Belgique in Bruxelles, (October-November 2003), the exhibition is hosted in Italy at the Art and History Collections of the Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna Foundation, San Giorgio in Poggiale, from 16 January to 15 February 2004. The show will be open to the public during "Bologna Art Fair 2004".
The exhibition curated by Vittoria Coen opens a window on the art world in Italy from the last forty years which, in addition to important expressive outcomes, made possible a more effective communication within the European and international scenes. The artistic development starts from the aesthetic ideology of Poor Art (at the end of the '60s) to go to the Transavanguardia (end of the '70s), up to the poetical experimentations of the '90s.
Twentytwo artists best represent the scopes and the tendencies of contemporary art: Enrico Castellani, Carla Accardi, Fabio Mauri, Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Luigi Ontani, Aldo Mondino, Sandro Chia, Luigi Mainolfi, Mimmo Paladino, Enzo Cucchi, Francesco Clemente, Gianni Dessì, Giuseppe Gallo, Marco Lodola, Gian Marco Montesano, Sabrina Torelli, Gian Luigi Toccafondo, Sabrina Mezzaqui, Luca Pignatelli, Alberto Zamboni and Paolo Chiasera.