"Immagine, spazio e teatralità. Michelangelo Pistoletto e Germano Celant, 1967-1976: una proposta di lettura contestuale" [Image, Space, Theatricality. Michelangelo Pistoletto and Germano Celant 1967-1976: a proposal for a Contextual Reading] (original) (raw)

24-25 October 2019, Palazzo Grassi and the history of its exhibitions #2 - An eccentric line of Italian art, a cura di Stefano Colliceli Cagol, Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venezia In 1976 Palazzo Grassi inaugurated Michelangelo Pistoletto's first major solo exhibition in an Italian institution. The exhibition is set up directly by the artist who calls Germano Celant to take care of its publication. Staring from the links between Pistoletto's artistic research with Celant's methodological one, that the influences and analogies are evident. In 1967 Pistoletto began to stage "Oggetti in meno" in his studio, while the same year Germano Celant began to experiment with his theory of space that brings the image "from signifying space to being space". In 1976 Michelangelo Pistoletto conceived his exhibition at Palazzo Grassi as a staging of his works in space. The same year Germano Celant realized Ambiente / Arte at the Venice Biennale, proposing an exhibition model in which the curatorial work between space, time, architecture and theatricality, generates an exhibition both site and time-specific in which consistency is given by the relationship between the exhibition medium and the works on display. The intervention is a first proposal in the context of wider research on Germano Celant's curatorial methodology.