Through 20 works by authors such as Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Enrico Castellani, Alberto Burri, Mario Schifano, Alighiero Boetti, Mario Merz and others, the exhibition will lead visitors to Milan, Rome, Turin, capitals of Italian creativity in a decade of great artistic vivacity.
The review is the winter prelude to the eighth edition of the St. Moritz Art Masters which, from 21 to 30 August 2015, will see Italy as the guest of honor as the protagonist.
From February 13 to March 8, 2015, the Protestant Church of St. Moritz hosts an event that analyzes one of the most fruitful and lively artistic periods of the Italian twentieth century.
The Sixties will in fact be at the center of the investigation conducted by the exhibition Viaggio in Italia, curated by Francesca Pola, organized by St.Moritz Art Masters in collaboration with Robilant+Voena. It will be an ideal journey within this decade of great creativity that has developed in the three major cultural centers of Milan, Rome and Turin, thanks to personalities such as Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Enrico Castellani, Agostino Bonalumi, Alberto Burri, Mario Schifano, Mimmo Rotella, Franco Angeli, Alighiero Boetti, Mario Merz, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Giuseppe Penone and others.
The review is the winter prelude to the eighth edition of the St.Moritz Art Masters, scheduled from 21 to 30 August 2015 which will see Italy as the guest of honor. After China, Brazil and India, the attention of the Engadin festival will turn to the art and artists of the Belpaese.
Through 20 works, the exhibition will analyze the characteristics of this Italian 'golden age', which is expressed not only in visual art but, in relation and in parallel with it, in many other fields, from industry to architecture , from design to fashion, from literature to theater and cinema, from photography to music.
In Milan, around the figure of Lucio Fontana, a generation of artists developed such as Piero Manzoni, Enrico Castellani, Agostino Bonalumi, Gianni Colombo, Paolo Scheggi, proponents of a new idea of space, obtained through the redefinition of painting. Their works are positioned within the zeroing of the surface and the unexpected relationships between color and form.
In Rome, parallel to the dialectic between Alberto Burri's research on matter and that of Piero Dorazio on the surface, the artistic context is even more directly linked to mass media and cinematographic communication. Authors such as Marco Schifano, Mimmo Rotella, Franco Angeli, Tano Festa, Pino Pascali reinterpret the icons of the new consumer era and those that originate from the historical roots of Italian identity, from Michelangelo to Futurism.
In Turin, the research of Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio guides the experimentation on natural materials and unorthodox techniques. All this led to the birth of the articulated context of Arte Povera, characterized by conceptual practices, performances, installations that saw personalities such as Alighiero Boetti, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Giuseppe Penone, Giovanni Anselmo, Mario Merz excel, without forgetting the painting of Giorgio Griffa.
After this winter moment, all attention will focus on the summer appointment, from 21 to 30 August 2015, of the St. Moritz Art Masters, the festival dedicated to contemporary art conceived by Monty Shadow and curated by Reiner Opoku which will transform he eighth time St. Moritz and the Engadine in an artistic and cultural center, with solo and group exhibitions – all free – of great artists of our time, as well as conferences, symposiums and other activities, inserted in a unique setting.
