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52<br />

pur accettando di esporre, Giulio<br />

Paolini e Michelangelo Pistoletto, che<br />

hanno inviato lettere di contestazione,<br />

mentre a negare le opere di un altro<br />

grande della scultura quale Fausto<br />

Melotti è stata la figlia Marta.<br />

E di già che ci siamo, c<strong>it</strong>iamo<br />

qualche altra assenza illustre, da<br />

Mimmo Paladino (l’unico della<br />

transavanguardia non inv<strong>it</strong>ato. Perché?)<br />

a Turcato, Dorazio, Santomaso,<br />

Cremonini, Tornabuoni, Calzorari e<br />

tanti altri, per finire con la “ p<strong>it</strong>tura<br />

anal<strong>it</strong>ica” che tanto rilievo ha avuto<br />

nell’arte <strong>it</strong>aliana degli anni settanta.<br />

Accanto a p<strong>it</strong>tori semi-sconosciuti,<br />

o considerati (da chi e perché?)<br />

emergenti, abbondano comunque<br />

gli artisti noti o notissimi, fra i quali<br />

Burri, Carla Accardi, Cattelan, Chia,<br />

Clemente, Cucchi, Fabro, Anselmo,<br />

Ontani, Piero Gilardi, Vezzoli, Boetti,<br />

De Dominicis, Merz, Penone, Salvo,<br />

Vanessa Beecroft, Carol Rama,<br />

Domenico Gnoli, Pino Pascali,<br />

Schifano, Festa, Adami, Tadini,<br />

Mimmo Rotella, Ettore Sottsass e<br />

Gianfranco Ferroni.<br />

Sanno di revisionismo, ma sono anche<br />

provocazioni coraggiose, le presenze<br />

di Pietro Annigoni e, nella stessa<br />

sala, dei generali di Enrico Baj, noto<br />

antimil<strong>it</strong>arista, posti accanto all’enorme<br />

tela dei Funerali di Togliatti di Renato<br />

Guttuso, un quadro di impostazione<br />

quasi mil<strong>it</strong>aresca.<br />

Avrà successo “Italics. <strong>Art</strong>e <strong>it</strong>aliana fra<br />

tradizione e rivoluzione 1968-2008”?<br />

Probabilmente sì. E’ organizzata dal<br />

Palazzo Grassi del mecenate francese<br />

Francois Pinault, in collaborazione<br />

con il Museum of Contemporary <strong>Art</strong><br />

di Chigago, dove verrà trasfer<strong>it</strong>a dopo<br />

l’edizione <strong>it</strong>aliana.<br />

Vi espongono 106 artisti con oltre 250<br />

opere.<br />

Italics segue la mostra storica “Roma<br />

e i Barbari”, che si è chiusa con<br />

un bilancio lusinghiero, come ha<br />

sottolineato l’amministratore delegato<br />

di Palazzo Grassi Monique Veaute, con<br />

oltre 211mila vis<strong>it</strong>atori in 176 giorni,<br />

pari a una media giornaliera di oltre<br />

1200.<br />

Per la sua “Italics”, Bonami è<br />

ottimista. Di tanti rischi solo uno ha<br />

voluto ev<strong>it</strong>are: “Quello di riscrivere<br />

una storia già scr<strong>it</strong>ta”. Delle tante<br />

cr<strong>it</strong>iche non si preoccupa, la mostra<br />

di Palazzo Grassi, la più importante<br />

sugli ultimi quarant’anni di arte<br />

<strong>it</strong>aliana, “costringerà cr<strong>it</strong>ici, spettatori,<br />

giornalisti, a riflettere. Non dobbiamo<br />

aver paura dell’esplosione della cultura,<br />

non è una centrale nucleare, quando<br />

scoppia fa più bene che male”.<br />

SOPRA:<br />

MAURIZIO CATTELAN<br />

ALL, 2008<br />

9 SCULTURE<br />

MARMO BIANCO DI CARRARA<br />

DIMENSIONI VARIABILI<br />

INSTALLATION VIEW<br />

PALAZZO GRASSI<br />

Perhaps no single exhib<strong>it</strong>ion in Italy has been so<br />

successful in attracting negative verdicts, so ferocious<br />

and obscene to the point of being insulting. “The<br />

list of artists inv<strong>it</strong>ed? Indecent”, according to Achille<br />

Bon<strong>it</strong>o Oliva who defines Bonami as a Philippine<br />

or a hairdresser. In an article In the Corriere della<br />

Sera, Giorgio Cortenova wrote an artiche ent<strong>it</strong>led<br />

Naufragio pilotato (A Piloted Wreck). A sad, grey,<br />

unassuming exhib<strong>it</strong>ion. It compares trad<strong>it</strong>ion to<br />

revolution, w<strong>it</strong>hout realizing that often the former<br />

stems from the latter and is not in collision w<strong>it</strong>h <strong>it</strong>.<br />

Yet, <strong>it</strong>’s an exhib<strong>it</strong>ion that deserves a vis<strong>it</strong> because<br />

between incredible absences and not few contradictions,<br />

some importance undoubtedly should be recognized.<br />

Inev<strong>it</strong>ably the negative or debatable aspect ends up<br />

prevailing and Francesco Bonami did l<strong>it</strong>tle or nothing<br />

to avoid <strong>it</strong>. Better yet, <strong>it</strong> seems that he was the one to<br />

add fuel to the flames in stating that the only reason<br />

he inserted the Venetian painter Emilio Vedova was<br />

strictly because the exhib<strong>it</strong>ion was organized in<br />

Venice. Otherwise…<br />

That would not have been the only sensational<br />

absence, point being however that the uninv<strong>it</strong>ed artists<br />

did not feel excluded and many actually would, on the<br />

contrary, rather not be present.<br />

Next to l<strong>it</strong>tle-known artists or considered (by whom<br />

and why?) emerging, there is a host of those known or<br />

well-known, such as Burri, Carla Accardi, Cattelan,<br />

Chia, Clemente, Cucchi, De Maria, Fabro, Anselmo,<br />

Ontani, Piero Gilardi, Vezzoli, Boetti, De Dominicis,<br />

Merz, Penone, Salvo, Vanessa Beecroft, Carol Rama,<br />

Domenico Gnoli, Pino Pascali, Schifano, Festa,<br />

Adami, Tadini, Mimmo Rotella, Ettore Sottsass e<br />

Gianfranco Ferroni.<br />

The presence of Pietro Annigoni in the same hall<br />

w<strong>it</strong>h the generals of Enrico Baj, (known for his antimil<strong>it</strong>ary<br />

stand) which is placed next to the enormous<br />

painting Funerali di Togliatti , by Renato Guttuso<br />

w<strong>it</strong>h <strong>it</strong>s mil<strong>it</strong>ary layout, all smell of Revisionism but<br />

they are also courageous provocations.<br />

The exhib<strong>it</strong>ion is organized at Palazzo Grassi by the<br />

French art collector Francois Pinault, in collaboration<br />

w<strong>it</strong>h the Chicago Museum of Contemporary <strong>Art</strong>,<br />

where <strong>it</strong> will be relocated after the Italian viewing.<br />

106 artists w<strong>it</strong>h over 250 works of art are on display.<br />

Italics follows the exhib<strong>it</strong>ion Rome and the Barbarians<br />

which closed w<strong>it</strong>h a pos<strong>it</strong>ive prof<strong>it</strong>, as noted by the<br />

Managing Director of Palazzo Grassi, Monique<br />

Veaute, w<strong>it</strong>h over 211,000 vis<strong>it</strong>ors in 176 days,<br />

equivalent to a daily average of more than 1200.<br />

Translated from the original text by Valencia Scott

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