The Missing Planet. The Pecci Center investigates artistic research from the former Soviet republics

At the Pecci Center in Prato is running until May 3, 2020 the exhibition The Missing Planet. Visions and Revisions of Soviet Times from the Pecci Center’s Collections and Other Collections, curated by Marco Scotini and Stefano Pezzato.

Integrating dozens of works from the Prato museum’s collection with others from important Italian and international collections and institutions, it aims to present the main artistic research that developed in the former Soviet republics between the 1970s and today: from Russia to the Baltic, Caucasian and Central Asian provinces.

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent dissolution of the USSR, how has the world changed in these decades? Thirty years have also passed since the first exhibition that the Pecci Center devoted to the unofficial Soviet art scene: Contemporary Russian Artists mounted in the spring of 1990 curated by Amnon Barzel and Claudia Jolles. This was followed by Progressive Nostalgia, curated by Viktor Misiano: an exhibition that bore witness to the disillusionment of the post-Soviet space in the face of the processes of transition and integration in the West, the crisis of financial capitalism, the dismantling of social rights and the authoritarian turn of liberalism, totally calling into question the initial optimism and registering despondency in the face of the failure of the present.

The Missing Planet thus intends to present itself as a current and final chapter of theideal post-Soviet trilogy at the Pecci Center, ready to confront a dual past: that of utopia on the one hand and that of memory on the other, starting with works from the two previous exhibitions. Between metaphor and reality, the exhibition will present cosmic and utopian imagery that accompanied the Soviet Union’s epic, transforming the museum’s exhibition space into a space shuttle.

The exhibition design is by artist Can Altay.

For info: www.centropecci.it

Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Tickets: Full 10 euros, reduced 7 euros

Image: Vladislav Shapovalov, Political Dreams (2018).

The Missing Planet. The Pecci Center investigates artistic research from the former Soviet republics

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