The 1986 exposure was very wide, it was articulated in seven sections, and the 400 present artists represented the whole contemporary panorama of the Italian visual arts in all the situations and the tendencies of the artistic search.
The preparation conceived by the studio of the architect Luigi Pellegrin (1925-2001) was a clear but unobtrusive presence, an ideal frame that valorized the exposure working on the same avant-garde plain of the contents, without diverting, nevertheless, the attention from the same contents.