Jeudi 19 Novembre 2015 12:54:04 par Antoine Coutin dans Expositions

From 26 November 2015 to 6 March 2016, Triennale di Milano presents Ennesima. An Exhibition of Seven Exhibitions on Italian Art, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis. Not “one” exhibition of Italian art but, literally, an ‘exhibition of exhibitions’ that, via seven paths, tries to explore the last fifty years of contemporary art in Italy, collecting more than one hundred and seventy works and over seventy artists, from the early Sixties through to the present day, in a display extending over the whole first floor of the Milan Triennale.

Vettor Pisani, L’eroe da camera. Tutte le parole dal silenzio di Duchamp al rumore di Beuys, 1972
Living person, steel cable, pulley, chain, leather collar, clock. Elisabetta Catalano
 

The title is inspired by a work by Giulio Paolini, Ennesima (appunti per la descrizione di sette tele datate 1973), the first version of which, dated 1973, is divided into seven paintings. This gives the number of exhibition projects included in de Bellis's exhibition for La Triennale: seven independent exhibitions, in the form of notes or suggestions that explore different aspects, links, coincidences and discrepancies, as well as the exhibition grammar in the recent history of Italian art. Seven working hypotheses through which we can read, reinterpret and tell Italian art also through the analysis of some of the possible exhibition formats: from the solo exhibition to the site-specific installation, through to the thematic group show and chronological group show, the group exhibition on specific movement and the medium-based group exhibition and on to the archive exhibition. Not just a single project that attempts at all costs to find thematic or stylistic, chronological or generational connections, but rather a platform that tries to suggest the coexistence of all these and other possible formats, creating a cross-section of the past fifty years of art in Italy.