The Michetti Theatre in Pescara, the city’s place of identity, has become, thanks to the work of the Fondazione Zimei, a veritable Kunsthalle for contemporary art for internationally recognised contemporary art. After a year and a half of continuous activity dedicated to contemporary languages as part of the Someplace Sometime project, the new exhibition resumes the research strand on the hybridisation of visual cultures.
Supernova is an exhibition conceived from the relationships between the language of radical design—an artistic and cultural movement of the 1960s that 1960s that literally dug into the roots of the arts—and of the visual arts in particular of the visual arts, to explore the relationship between the projects of the architects and designers of the time and the languages of contemporary art.
International artists such as Franck Scurti, Tomás Saraceno, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Alek O., Davide Stucchi, Céline Condorelli, Lazar Lyutakov, Alfredo Pirri, whose works, together with iconic pieces from the history of design history by Ettore Sottsass, Superstudio, Gianni Pettena, Archizoom, deepen the status of objects in the semantic balance between art and design. of art and design. In particular, all these authors have worked from a different point of view in their relationship with architecture, design, objects of everyday use and nature, hypothesising alternative social lifestyles, between the feeling of anarchy and a utopian idea of freedom, influenced by the historical avant-gardes. Specifically, the designers’ iconic pieces, such as Superonda by Archizoom or Superbox by Ettore Sottsass dialogue with the sculptural lamps by the Bulgarian Lazar Lyutakov or differently with the hybrid objects by Davi- de Stucchi, which introduce us to the ambiguity—or possibility—offered by things, relational junctions of everyday life. There is no lack of tributes—some implicit, some indirect—from artists such as Franck Scurti and Lili Reynaud-Dewar to Sottsass or Céline Condorelli.
The latter creates a dialogue between her video After Work—made in collaboration with Ben Rivers and the poet Jay Bernard, about the creation of the South London playground—and Archizoom’s Safari with the table T02 by Superstudio, a reflection on the additional mechanism useful for the construction of collaborative processes in society.
Alfredo Pirri offers the metaphor of the alchemical metamorphosis of materials, presenting a glass egg cup—a copy of which is in the collection of the Museo Correr in Venice—which traverses the history of art from Piero della Francesca to Dali. Alek O. articulates spatial scores by retrieving objet trouvè and constructing compositions with clear references to the experience of design or applied arts. Closing the exhibition is the an-architect Gianni Pettena, who in a video is sitting at a technical drawing table, performing any action that is not referable to architecture in the strict sense.
The exhibition is a collaboration between the Zimei Foundation, the company Poltronova and the Urban Gallery space and is curated by Massimiliano Scuderi, curator and director of the Foundation and Elisa- betta Trincherini, art historian and responsible for the historical archive of the Poltronova Study Centre for Design. A supernova is a bright star in the celestial vault whose expansion can bring about the birth of other stars, just as radical design has brought about the birth of new languages in contemporary art and architecture.
Alek O., Archizoom, Céline Condorelli, Lazar Lyutakov, Gianni Pettena, Alfredo Pirri, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Tomás Saraceno, Franck Scurti, Ettore Sottsass, Davide Stucchi, Superstudio
Curated by
Massimiliano Scuderi
Elisabetta Trincherini
at The Michetti Theatre, Pescara by Fondazione Zimei
until February 8, 2025
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