We want it all: at the Palazzo Ducale in Massa, the new exhibition of Nanni Balestrini

Opening on March 10 at the Palazzo Ducale in Massa is the new solo exhibition of Nanni Balestrini (Milan, 1935), entitled Vogliamo Tutto: the exhibition, inspired by the events of the “hot autumn” of 1969, takes up the title of Nanni Balestrini’s book of the same name dedicated to Sixty-eight. The exhibition at Palazzo Ducale, which will be held on the fiftieth anniversary of the great movement that shook world culture at the time and whose effects are still felt today, will display visual poems typical of Nanni Balestrini’s stylistic signature, collages, various images: in all there will be fifty works on display, and among them there will also be unpublished works.

“Balestrini’s work,” explains Mauro Daniele Lucchesi, curator of the exhibition, "is without mediation or judgment. While the plastic bags crumpled and reassembled by the artist embody a fleeting idea of progress, newspaper headlines immediately disintegrate it because facts go their own way. The exhibition We Want Everything aims to be a synthesis of human illusions and the unchallenged power of media representation. The shredded phrases and letters are apocalyptic and light at the same time. We can say that Nanni Balestrini’s works anticipated, like a warning, the advent of contemporary virtuality and its pitfalls. The manifestation of that anthropophagic techno-world made of videos and words that devour the real. The black or color collages, with news photos, advertisements, landscapes or with works of art history, contain an enigma. They bring back Duchampian rebuses, futurist proclamations, Nam June Paik’s imaginative neurosis. The characters of the 1970s-from Elvis Presley to Enrico Berlinguer, from Marlon Brando to Leonid Ill’c Brezhnev-campaign in the large work, seven by five meters, like ornaments on a large Eurasian tapestry, are the seeds of contemporary legacy. The shattered words, on the other hand, are echoes of human emotions. Of a world that evolvingly involves but - pronouncing with feeble voice We Want Everything - does not resign."

The exhibition will also be an occasion for the presentation of the Milanese artist’s new book of poems, entitled Caosmogonia e altro, Poesie complete (1990-2017) (published by DeriveApprodi). The exhibition will be open until March 20, 2018, daily from 4 to 7 p.m. Free admission. The exhibition is sponsored by the City of Massa and is in collaboration with the Mudima Foundation in Milan.

We want it all: at the Palazzo Ducale in Massa, the new exhibition of Nanni Balestrini

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