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Intesa Sanpaolo presents: "Future, art and society from the XNUMXs to tomorrow"

The Future at the Vicenza Art Galleries - From 3 October 2020 until 7 February 2021, the exhibition that tells the story of art over the last 60 years and how the idea of ​​the future has changed in the eyes of man.

Intesa Sanpaolo presents: "Future, art and society from the XNUMXs to tomorrow"

The Gallerie d'Italia – Palazzo Leoni Montanari, museum headquarters of Intesa Sanpaolo in Vicenza – opens its doors to the public. From October 3 2020 7 to February 2021the exhibition will be held "Future. Art and society from the XNUMXs to tomorrow", edited by Luca Beatrice and Walter Guadagnini. About 100 works by Italian and international artists, from the most important private collections and those of Gruppo Intesa.

On the occasion of the ABI "Invito a Palazzo" Day, admission is free on Saturday 3 October from 10 to 19. For safety issues related to the health emergency, admissions will be limited.

The exhibition draws a map, starting from the 60s up to the present, leaving the ending “open”. It represents a vision of how the world has changed in 60 years, from the point of view of art. Starting from the golden years with the economic boom and demographic growth, up to arriving in a society that has found itself dealing with a very different reality.

As a background, a series of photographic images from the Publifoto Milano Archive, which will accompany the time-line of the individual decades and will tell the idea of ​​the future in society, especially the Italian one. In addition, many collateral activities are planned, including: art walks, thematic itineraries, activities for families, creative writing workshops and performances with the use of new technologies, free educational tours for schools.

The exposition begins with a prologue dedicated to Futurism, a project entitled Space and Time. The first seen through the eyes of Fontana, Munari and Klein, the second with the irony of Baj and the intuitions of Boetti, Cattelan, Mari, Paolini and Turcato.

There will be to follow 5 exhibition sections dedicated to visions of the future. “The future is the present” aimed at the 60s which – despite the specter of a nuclear conflict – leads to a vision of art ranging from Spatialism to kinetic art up to Pop and Op, through works by great artists such as Rauschenberg, Rotella, Vasarely and Fioroni.

“The Future is the Politician” from the 70s, with movements ranging from physical poetry to Arte Povera, from feminism to military art, with authors such as Christo, Indiana, Isgrò, Schifano and Tilson,

“The Future is Success” from the 80s, with the question of whether the art market matters more than art itself. To represent those years the works of the visionary Hirst, Kruger, Rosenquist and the inimitable Warhol. Then we come to the Years' 90, protagonist the man and his shape, from the title “The Future is the posthuman”, featuring works by Burson, Morimura, Skoglund and Vintiner.

Finally, to conclude the exhibition are the first decades of the new millennium, In which  “The future is environment”. At the center the enormous challenge linked to climate change, with artists such as César, Eliasson, Gilardi, Lai, Najjar up to the young Bufalini.

The future, a topic of extraordinary relevance, especially in this historical moment, in which even the present is increasingly uncertain. And art in this plays an essential role in narrating and interpreting the various changes.

Like contemporary art that has reinterpreted and represented the vision of the future. A vision linked in part to the idea of ​​technological progress and innovation, on the other to the desire and need for change, to the point of wishing for a better society for us and for future generations, with the view that tomorrow could be better than today.

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