FOCUS900 is the in-depth programme of the Museo del Novecento dedicated to the protagonists of Italian art of the second half of the twentieth century.
Through a series of monographic focuses, produced in collaboration with artists' archives and studios, the project proposes new readings of the permanent collection, bringing works, documents and historical contexts into relation in order to build formal, conceptual and critical connections.
After the in-depth studies dedicated to Grazia Varisco, Paolo Scirpa, Alberto Garutti and Bruno Munari, the programme continues with three new appointments: two monographic focuses on Vincenzo Agnetti and Enrico Castellani, and one dedicated to some protagonists of the Milanese artistic scene.
Through the display of works by Valerio Adami, Alik Cavaliere, Lucio Del Pezzo, Bobo Piccoli and Emilio Tadini, the focus traces the affirmation of Milan as one of the main laboratories of contemporary art between the Sixties and Seventies, a period in which the city, crossed by the economic boom, the expansion of mass communication and the growing influence of industrial and advertising culture, becomes the ground of a new artistic research.
These artistic experiences, despite the diversity of their languages, share the will to critically interpret contemporary reality, bringing high culture and mass culture, memory and present, experimentation and tradition into dialogue.
Curated by the Museo del Novecento
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