Dep Art Gallery celebrates the twentieth anniversary of its activity with an exhibition that is both a review and a manifesto. Not a retrospective, but a visual survey: twenty-six artists, twenty-six solo shows that have marked the history of the gallery, each represented by one work chosen to bear witness to the coherence of a path.
The installation follows a precise spatial and narrative logic. Opening the exhibition route is a work by Mario Nigro, an artist whom founder and director Antonio Addamiano chose to exhibit at the gallery's opening 20 years ago, in 2006, at the Via Giuriati venue. The exhibition continues on the basement level, where the story of the origins unfolds: from Alberto Gianquinto to Pino Pinelli, but also Salvo, Alberto Biasi and Emilio Scanavino. Thus, in chronological order, the gallery traces its first years through the works of artists who defined its identity. It is no coincidence that Pinelli closes this level: his solo show was the last exhibition in the gallery's historic venue, a farewell and at the same time a threshold.