A free exhibition in Milan on the art of Sixty-Eight

The 50th anniversary of Sixty-Eight is just a short time away: to mark the occasion, a major exhibition is being held at the Credito Valtellinese Gallery in Milan that aims to reread that period of change through art. Rebel Art. 1968 - 1978. Artists and Groups from Sixty-Eight, curated by Marco Meneguzzo, is an exhibition that stems from the desire to investigate what were the artistic expressions that arose in Italy at the time on the back of protest, the desire for change and the intention to revolutionize politics. There are two main poles on which the exhibition focuses: Milan and Rome, cities that saw the alternation of “high” art (figurative painting but also conceptual and performance art) and art of, so to speak, “low” register, such as comic strips and illustrations. All forms united by the great spirit of innovation towards a language considered no longer suitable to represent the instances of modernity.

Significantly, the exhibition is being held in Milan, which was perhaps the Italian city most affected by the 1968 struggles."If France celebrated its Figuration Narrative with an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou (May 2008),“ say the directors of the Credito Valtellinese Gallery, Cristina Quadrio Curzio and Leo Guerra, ”it seems appropriate to us that Milan - the heart of the Italian student and workers’ protest - should do the same with the artists and even the simple illustrators, who were active witnesses of that season, and who constituted an important, lasting and linguistically second to none example in Europe at that time. The exhibition will feature about eighty works of painting and sculpture to which will be added several photographs and a large number of documents. We will see works by some of the great protagonists of the time: Nanni Balestrini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Mario Schifano, Vincenzo Agnetti, Pablo Echaurren, Franco Angeli, Emilio Isgrò, as well as Giuseppe Guareschi, Titina Maselli, Carlos Mensa, Sergio Sarri, Fernando De Filippi, Paolo Baratella, Fabio Mauri, Mario Ceroli, Mario Ugo La Pietra, Umberto Mariani, Franco Vaccari, Gianni Pettena, Gianni Emilio Simonetti, Giangiacomo Spadari, and Franco Mazzucchelli.

The exhibition, produced and organized by the Credito Valtellinese Group Foundation, is open from Oct. 12 to Dec. 9, 2017, with hours 1:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 3-7 p.m. Saturday. Closed Sundays and Mondays, as well as Nov. 1 and Dec. 8. Free admission. Information at www.creval.it.

Image: Giuseppe Guareschi, Running Woman (1975; mixed media on panel, 105 x 100 cm). Ph Credit Fabrizio Stipari.

A free exhibition in Milan on the art of Sixty-Eight

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