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crisis within the Biennale, and which was to deepen with the events of constantly renewed the great mystery of “where is painting headed?”
1968. Henceforth, the debates, controversies and criticisms of the role Passing through the 1970s with the hyper-realism of Franz Gertsch
of painting at the Biennale di Venezia dragged on and this archetype and the minimalism of Robert Ryman, it explores the l980s with the
for all contemporary art would prove always to be a symbolic absentee lyrical yet tormented experimentation of Francesco Clemente and
or a ghost wandering eternally within the Biennale. Jean Michel Basquiat to arrive at the 1990s and the revisionism of
On the occasion of the 50th edition of the exhibition of visual arts, John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton and Marghenita Manzelli, and ending
Pittura/Painting aims to provide a highly personal and idiosyncratic with the large canvas by Takashi Murakami which, blending traditional
view of the progress of painting in the Biennaleand elsewhere, trying Japanese painting and the popular iconography of “manga” cartoons,
to identify works through which the viewer can discern the love- closes a long tour of the world and of painting at the start of the 21st
hate relationship existing between contemporary art and the painted century.
medium. Whereas Rauschenberg with his silk-screens of images torn from
Through works by Alberto Burn, Lucio Fontana, Domenico Gnoli, Enrico everyday life and the present created a crisis that would never blow
Castellani and Renato Guttuso, the exhibition compares Italian work over, this young Japanese artist projects painting not into society’s
with that of Europe and the rest of the world, stimulating questions, present but into the unreachable future of our imagination.
stressing weaknesses and strengths which for almost 40 years have

Roy Lichtenstein
Mirror #2, 1970
oil and magna on canvas
48 x 32 cm.
Private Collection

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