Addio Anni 70
Today at Palazzo Reale in Milano opens the exhibition curated by Francesco Bonami, art critic with long term experience and artistic director of Pitti Immagine Discovery and Sandretto Re Rebaudengo foundations, and Paola Nicolin, art historian and critic professor at Università Bocconi in Milano.
The exhibition, supported by IlSole24Ore, is a courageous work that aims to get closer, to look at, to remember and to discover something that in Milano’s and general history is still a painful personal and collective memory. The period between 1969 and 1980 is described by Bonomi as a black box of dark and concrete memories – the guy with the gun, the funeral at Piazza Fontana, but also light and abstract – Le Verifiche by Ugo Mullas, Alfa Castoldi’s memories.
The catalogue of the exhibition is curated by Mousse magazine. It includes about 60 artists, among which there is Gianni Emilio Simotetti, currently professor of food design at politecnico di Milano, who curated the Echoes room. The works by Daniel Spoerri tell about what remains of twelve dinners at his restaurant Restaurant Spoerri in Dusseldorf with some artists divided by their astrological sign, Cuisine astro-gastronomique. It is a consideration about the daily and family practice of food consumption, it’s art mediated through the act of eating.
Alfa Castaldi’s extraordinary pictures, fashion photographer based at Jamaica cafè in Milano, look at the present with the eye of the 70′s, a not only Milanese inheritance.
