The Pecci Center in Prato welcomes its visitors again with a rich program of new features

The Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato will welcome visitors again starting May 21, 2020, after being closed due to a health emergency. Until June 3, the exhibition venue will have free access for all, with reduced hours from 12 to 8 p.m., Thursday through Sunday. All security measures will be adhered to: spaces have been sanitized and reorganized, all personal protective equipment is available, and visitor flow will be restricted to accommodate a maximum of sixty people at once.

On the occasion of the reopening, Centro Pecci is offering a rich programming: from the extension of The Missing Planet to the new video installation Interregnum by Adrian Paci; from the ten artist flags made for Centro Pecci Extra to the KENE/Space project, to the exhibition dedicated to Ren Hang.

The Missing Planet - Visions and Revisions of “Soviet Times” from the Centro Pecci collection and other collections will in fact be extended until August 23, 2020: from Russia to the Baltic, Caucasian and Central Asian provinces, an immersion in artistic research developed from the 1970s to the present in the former Soviet republics, curated by Marco Scotini and Stefano Pezzato.

In dialogue with the exhibition is Adrian Paci’s video installation Interregnum, a montage of sequences of funerals of communist dictators of different nationalities and eras, retrieved from state archives or from Albanian national television broadcasts. Men, women, children filmed in close-up, in tears, or from afar, in kilometer-long queues.

Ten artist’s flags were made for Centro Pecci Extra during the forced closure: on a weekly basis, flags by Marinella Senatore, Nico Vascellari, Marzia Migliora, Eva Marisaldi, Flavio Favelli, Marcello Maloberti, Elisabetta Benassi, Massimo Bartolini, Elena Mazzi and Andreco were hoisted on the flagpole in front of the museum as a sign of resistance and hope. The flags will be the starting point for a workshop dedicated to youngsters that will take place in the two exhibition rooms transformed into educational classrooms. Also designed for children and young people is KENE/Space, a project promoted by Fondazione Pianoterra Onlus, curated by Sara Alberani, by Ivorian artist Mohamed Keita, on display until May 31, 2020. KENE is a place of education, cooperation and knowledge, training young people in Mali through photography. The exhibition features works created by students at Mohamed Keita’s workshop in Bamako.

From June 4 to August 23, 2020, the Pecci Center will also host the first Italian exhibition dedicated to Chinese photographer and poet Ren Hang. The artist, who died tragically at a very young age, never wanted to be considered a political artist, despite the fact that his photographs were considered pornographic and subversive in China. Hang is best known for his research on the body, identity, sexuality and the human-nature relationship. A selection of shots from international collections will be presented in the exhibition to give the public an understanding of the full intensity of his poetics.

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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 Pecci Center in Prato welcomes its visitors again with a rich program of new features

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