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ITALY / Milan: Ennesima / Umpteenth
by Modem
© Modem

until Sunday March 06 2016

Triennale di Milano
T : +39 02 72 43 41
viale Alemagna, 6
20121 Milan
Italy



An Exhibition of Seven Exhibitions of Italian Art

La Triennale di Milano presents Ennesima / Umpteenth. An Exhibition of Seven Exhibitions of Italian Art, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis. This 'exhibition of exhibitions' will include over a hundred and twenty works by more than seventy artists, in a display extending over the entire first floor of La Triennale. It will offer a possible interpretation of the past fifty years of contemporary art in Italy, from the early sixties through to the present day.

The title is inspired by a work by Giulio Paolini, Ennesima (appunti per la descrizione di sette tele datate 1973), the first version of which, dated 1973, is divided into seven paintings. This gives the number of exhibition projects included in de Bellis's exhibition for La Triennale: seven independent exhibitions, in the form of notes or suggestions that explore different aspects, links, coincidences and discrepancies in the recent history of Italian art. Seven working hypotheses that examine, reinterpret and tell the story of Italian art. It does so partly through an analysis of some of the possible exhibition formats: from the solo exhibition to the site-specific installation, through to the thematic group show and chronological group show, the group exhibition on a particular movement and the group exhibition in the same medium and on to the documentary exhibition. Not just a single project that attempts at all costs to find thematic or stylistic, chronological or generational connections, but rather a platform that suggests the coexistence of all these and other possible formats, creating a cross-section of the past fifty years of art in Italy.

© Modem