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EUR, ''XI Quadriennale d'Arte''

Rome

The large, undulating Ceilings made of grey BGO - Gobelin tulle have the task of improving the acoustics and aesthetics of the pavilions, lowering their ceilings.The backdrops made of white ASC - Sceno muslin suspended vertically are instead used to highlight the exhibited works.Seen today, the images of this setup would seem to say nothing original ...
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... but Luigi Pellegrin's one was an innovative exhibition project, which made massive use of the fabrics of theatrical scenography, with gigantic backdrops that exploited the transparency of the materials to remodel the spaces.Six sections radiated out from the central historical nucleus of the exhibition, each with works by thirty artists ...
... dedicated to the contemporary trends of Italian art of the early 80s.The exposure recapitulated the emergencies from the Years 1950s to the 1980s, stopping by the experiences of the old masters Luigi Veronesi and Mario Radice, to the Arte povera of Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jannis Kounellis, Piero Gilardi and Mario Merz, to the Conceptual art by Franca Pisani and Luigi Ontani ...

... to the Informalism by Emilio Vedova and Ennio Morlotti, to the Abstract art of Carla Accardi, Giulio Turcato and Pietro Consagra, to the Realism by Ernesto Treccani and Renato Guttuso, to reach the Transavantgarde of Enzo Cucchi, Francesco Clemente, Sandro Chia, Nicola De Maria and Mimmo Paladino.The large suspended Ceiling made of white ASC - Sceno muslin ...
The large, undulating Ceilings made of grey BGO - Gobelin tulle have the task of improving the acoustics and aesthetics of the pavilions, lowering their ceilings.The backdrops made of white ASC - Sceno muslin suspended vertically are instead used to highlight the exhibited works.Seen today, the images of this setup would seem to say nothing original ...
... and this Ceiling made of grey BGO - Gobelin tulle seem to underline the theatrical derivation of the setting and recall – casually or deliberately? – the veils of the ''upper fantastic'' by Luciano Damiani.
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.
Exhibition project
Studio Pellegrin & Associati
May - August 1986

Materials used in this production

Acoustic curtains

Acoustic curtains

ASC - Sceno

Muslin and canvas

BGOP - Gobelin Teatro

Scrim and bobbinet fabrics

Ceilings

Frames for stagecraft

Flat making

Fabric: tailoring types

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