The 2020 exhibitions of the Pecci Center of Prato. Mission: to be a place of research open to dialogue

The Pecci Center of Prato announces for 2020 the presence of some internationally renowned Italian artists, such as Gio Ponti, Francesco Vezzoli, Martino Gamper, and Chiara Fumai, chosen for their ability to look at their own time, interpret it and affect it.

From March 20 to 22, the Pecci Center will promote The State of Art. The Toscaincontemporary festival, curated by Carolina Gestri and Pierluigi Tazzi: a special event dedicated to artistic realities already active in Tuscany.

From April 5 to August 30, the exhibition Domus Aurea. Martino Gamper, Francesco Vezzoli and Gio Ponti’s ceramics, curated by Cristiana Perrella: the exhibition proposes a dialogue between the works of Francesco Vezzoli, the furniture of designer and artist Martino Gamper and the ceramics made by Gio Ponti between 1923 and 1933 during his collaboration with the Richard-Ginori factory.

Through the most recent generations of artists, in the exhibitions Protext! (April 5 to Aug. 30, curated by Camilla Mozzato and Marta Papini) and Chinese Whispers (May 29 to Sept. 9, curated by Cristiana Perrella), the different expressions of the contemporary that bring people closer to the major themes of life and our society will be investigated.

There will also be major solo shows of two world-famous artists: in fact, the 85th birthday of Simone Forti (Florence, 1935), artist, dancer, choreographer, whose family was from Prato, will be celebrated with the exhibition Senza fretta, which can be visited from May 15 to October 25, curated by Luca Lo Pinto and Elena Magini, and designed together with the artist herself; then a retrospective will be presented for the first time in Italy(Sister Corita Kent: Heroes and Sheroes, Sept. 25, 2020 to Feb. 28, 2021, curated by Camilla Mozzato and Tommaso Speretta) the work of Sister Corita Kent (Fort Dodge, Iowa, 1918 - Boston, 1986), a nun of the religious congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, artist, educator and social justice activist in California in the 1960s and 1970s.

From September 25, 2020 to February 28, 2021, the exhibition Chiara Fumai. Poems I will never release 2007 - 2012, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi and Milovan Farronato, and co-produced with Centre d’Arte Contemporain Genève, in collaboration with La Casa Encendida, Madrid and Kiosk, Ghent. This is the first retrospective dedicated to the artist’s work that has been primarily associated with live performance.

The enhancement of the heritage of the Pecci Center continues in 2020, not only the works of the collection, protagonists of a new series of themed installations, but also the archives, the library, valuable resources for the community that must become increasingly accessible and productive in terms of research generated.
From November 6, 2020 to May 9, 2021, the exhibition The Words of Art, from Visual Poetry to Postproduction. Works from the Pecci Center and other collections, curated by Stefano Pezzato.

Finally, from December 4, 2020 to April 4, 2021, the exhibition Cao Fei. Asia One, curated by Cristiana Perrella, in collaboration with MAXXI in Rome.

The Pecci Center’s goal is to establish itself as a national and international reference center for contemporary creativity, but also to actively involve the community around the museum, to open it to the city and make it a common space. “With the 2020 program, the Pecci Center confirms its mission as a place of research open to contaminations, to the multiplicity of gazes, to the dialogue of multiple voices. Creation, knowledge, innovation are goals that our museum has always set for itself. The intention is now to pursue them with a focus on the great themes of the present, the seismic forces of contemporaneity,” convinced that art can give an illuminating reading of them," said Cristiana Perrella, director of the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art.

Image: Exterior view of the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato. Ph.Credit Fernando Guerra - FG + SG Fotografia de Arquitectura Courtesy: Centro Pecci Prato

The 2020 exhibitions of the Pecci Center of Prato. Mission: to be a place of research open to dialogue

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