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the Biennale from 1964 to the present, Pittura/Painting is an exhibition Biennale?” Pittura/Painting offers a response by re-examining the last
– created and curated by La Biennale di Venezia and by the Musei Civici four decades of the Biennale together with painting developments
Veneziani (Venetian Civic Museums) and a substantial part of the 50th outside the Venetian context, and confirming that the painted picture
Exhibition - that aims at reconsidering the celebration and exclusion of remains at the center of every artistic debate.
the development of painting.
The exhibition will not only reveal the presence of painting as a tour de
force (most notably during the years of 1969 and 1977) but also explore Pittura/Painting
its absence spawned by, among a host of things, the emergence of From Robert Rauschenberg to David Hockney, from Lucio Fontana
conceptual art; other complex debates posited that the canvas was to Andy Warhol, from Francesco Clemente to Jean-Michel
seen as an irrevocable archetype of contemporary artistic expression. Basquiat, from Lucian Freud to John Currin, from Alberto Burri to
Pittura/ Painting will include more than forty works spanning several Gino De Dominicis and Takashi Murakami.
generations of international artists.
Since the mid-1960s, the Biennale has been characterized by the Venezia, Museo Correr
following paradox: “What is the role of painting in the current San Marco 1529, 30124 Venezia

PITTURA/PAINTING
FROM RAUSCHENBERG TO MURAKAMI
Archea Associati /c+s Associati

Alberto Burri
Opera N° 944, 1966
Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini
“Collezione Burri”, Città di Castello

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