We are the revolution

From the 1st February to the 24th May 2020 it will be taking place at XNL PIACENZA CONTEMPORANEA and at Galleria d’Arte Moderna Ricci Oddi the collective exhibition “WE ARE THE REVOLUTION – Contemporary Italian Collecting” ,by Alberto Fiz; organized by the Foundation of Piacenza and Vigevano, with the support of MiBACT – Ministry of Culture, and with the support of Emilia-Romagna Region. The exhibition project is by Michele De Lucchi e AMDL CIRCLE, with the scientific advice by Polo Territoriale of Mantova – Polytechnic of Milan.

The exhibition will be showing over 150 artworks by national and international artists – paintings, sculptures, pictures and installations –, which come from 18 art collections, among the most important in Italy. We are talking about artists who made the history of Art.

Corrado Bonomi will be involved into the section Esplorazioni. The artworks are grouped by themes, which are:

Complicità – Complicity with the “dialectic between collector and artist” [official press release, qte.];
Artists: Eduardo Arroyo, Elizabeth Aro, Barry X Ball, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Clegg & Guttmann, Matteo Fato, Thorsten Kirchhoff, Luigi Mainolfi, Alessandro Mendini, Helmut Newton, Niki de Saint Phalle, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Alice Ronchi, Thomas Struth.

Domestiche alterazioni - “The home space and everything is connected to it – food, furniture etc.- are deeply transformed by ironical and paradoxical effects. [official press release, qte.];
Artists: Mario Airò, Ghada Amer, Paolo Canevari, Loris Cecchini, Wim Delvoye, Gintaras Didziapetris, Gloria Friedmann, Stefania Galegati, Petrit Halilaj, Huang Yong Ping, Yayoi Kusama, Aldo Mondino, Adrian Paci, Athena Papadopoulos, Pino Pascali, Bruno Peinado, Giulia Piscitelli, Paola Pivi, Martha Rosler, Sam Samore, Armando Testa, Richard Wentworth, Tom Wesselmann.

Rovesciare il Mondo – “About suspended time”, “but [which] includes crucial political and social issues, such as migration and climate change”. [official press release, qte.];
Artists: Marina Abramović, Francesco Arena, Georg Baselitz, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Alberto Burri, Jimmie Durham, Lara Favaretto, Carsten Höller, Invernomuto, Teresa Margolles, Paul McCarthy, Mike Nelson, Katja Novitskova, Mimmo Rotella, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Sisley Xhafa.

Enigma – “The file rouge which bounds the activity of collectors to the investigation of artists is an unfathomable mystery”. [official press release, qte.];
Artists: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Matthew Barney, Alighiero Boetti, Sophie Calle, Francesco Clemente, Giorgio de Chirico, Gino De Dominicis, Flavio Favelli, Dan Flavin, Andrea Galvani, Emilio Isgrò, Anish Kapoor, Joseph Kosuth, Osvaldo Licini, Allan McCollum, Marisa Merz, Giorgio Morandi, Robert Morris, Shirin Neshat, Ahmet Öğüt, Mimmo Paladino, Giulio Paolini, Alessandro Pessoli, Emilio Prini, Alexandre Singh, Gilberto Zorio.

L'altro visto da sé – “‘ ‘What is worth for us is to prove our existence’ - writes Jean Baudrillard in the pamphlet which gives the name to this section. The paths of the artists cross the path of the collectors, creating a group of artworks which go beyond the simple representation”. [official press release, qte.];
Artists: Vincenzo Agnetti, Vanessa Beecroft, Maurizio Cattelan, Mario Ceroli, Enzo Cucchi, Günther Förg, Francesco Gennari, Nan Goldin, Zhang Huan, Ilya Kabakov, Alex Katz, Mike Kelley, Barbara Kruger, Myriam Laplante, Sarah Lucas, Marcello Maloberti, Robert Mapplethorpe, Marzia Migliora, Yasumasa Morimura, Zanele Muholi, Luigi Ontani, Tony Oursler, Vettor Pisani, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jaume Plensa, Thomas Ruff, Julian Schnabel, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Franco Vaccari, Marcella Vanzo, Francesco Vezzoli, Bill Viola.

Controllare il caos – “This section proposes different language models which have in common the ability to express the vital energy of the matter - by means of actions which can change from time to time”. [official press release, qte.];
Artists: Ben, Daniel Buren, Tony Cragg, Piero Fogliati, Lucio Fontana, Ellen Gallagher, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Jannis Kounellis, Sol LeWitt, Mario Merz, Tatsuo Miyajima, Fabrizio Plessi, Hisachika Takahashi.

Esplorazioni – “A path which represents a further point of conjunction between the investigation of the collectors and the investigation of the artists. Here, the “Journey” [office al press release, qte.] and “being in the world” [official press release, qte.] are the bonding agents among all artworks.
Artists: Giovanni Anselmo, Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Corrado Bonomi, Chiara Camoni, Roberto Cuoghi, Nicola De Maria, Luciano Fabro, Urs Fischer, Piero Gilardi, Andreas Gursky, Mona Hatoum, Francesco Jodice, William Kentridge, Richard Long, Claudia Losi, Fausto Melotti, Giuseppe Penone, Gianni Pettena, Gianni Piacentino, Tobias Rehberger, Gerhard Richter, Tomás Saraceno, Thomas Struth, Andy Warhol, Erwin Wurm, Andrea Zittel.

Spazi di Monocromia – “The last section develops by means of an important group of artworks about the monochromic, which is shown at Galleria Ricci Oddi”. [official press release, qte.];
Artists: Stefano Arienti, Marco Bagnoli, Barry X Ball, Domenico Bianchi, Enrico Castellani, Alberto Garutti, Wyatt Kahn, Mimmo Jodice, Wolfgang Laib, Piero Manzoni, Fabio Mauri, Pietro Roccasalva, Remo Salvadori, Gregor Schneider, Mario Schifano, Ettore Spalletti, Luca Vitone.

COLLECTIONS
Collezione Agiverona; Collezione Consolandi, Milano; Collezione Alt, Bergamo; Collezione De Iorio, Trento; Collezione Ernesto Esposito, Napoli; Collezione Floridi, Roma; Collezione Giuliani, Roma; Collezione Gori-Fattoria di Celle, Pistoia; Collezione La Gaia, Busca; Collezione Emilio and Luisa Marinoni, Lurago Marinone; Collezione Mattioli Rossi; Collezione Mazzolini, Bobbio; Collezione Nomas Foundation, Roma; Collezione Claudio and Maria Grazia Palmigiano, Milano; Collezione Pierluigi and Natalina Remotti, Milano/Camogli; Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino; Collezione Giuliana and Tommaso Setari, Parigi/Bruxelles, Collezione Gemma De Angelis Testa, Milano.

Vernissage: Friday 31st of January 2020, at 18.00.

Opening time: from Tuesday to Sunday, 10.00-19.00; closed on Monday.

Ticket (it allows the entrance into both spaces, XNL Piacenza Contemporanea and Galleria Ricci Oddi): full price: €12,00; reduced price: €10,00 (visitors with an age between 11 and 18 or +65 years; servicemen with card; Touring Club, FAI, ACI, ARCI, Associazione Dimore storiche and Italia Nostra members; university students (university students of the third age too); price reduction: for schools: € 6,00.

Information: tel. 0523.311111; 02.36755700; info@lafondazione.com

Catalogue: Silvana Editoriale

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