PAC
presents the work of Superstudio (1966-1978), the Italian group
of radical architecture and radical design that has activated a
revolution in the idea of design around the world.
The
Superstudio have since the 70s historically animated the critique of
modernism articulated through radical architecture, establishing
themselves as the last great Italian avant-garde.
Co-curated
by Andreas Angelidakis, Vittorio Pizzigoni and Valter Scelsi, the
exhibition recounts how this group of Florentine architects has
influenced not only great architects such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas
and Bernard Tschumi, but have definitely questioned the limits
between contemporary art and architecture.
The
exhibition will reconstruct Superstudio’s most important projects
by bringing together its most representative pieces of design,
installations and films, and by building – as a part of the total
urbanisation model promoted by Superstudio itself – a dialogue with
works by 21 contemporary artists, who have drawn the raw material for
their oeuvre from the Florence group’s research: Danai Anesiadou,
Alexandra Bachzetsis, Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine, Pablo Bronstein,
Stefano Graziani, Petrit Halilaj and Alvaro Urbano, Jim Isermann,
Daniel Keller and Ella Plevin, Andrew Kovacs, Rallou Panagiotou,
Paola Pivi, Angelo Plessas, Riccardo Previdi, RO/LU, Priscilla Tea,
Patrick Tuttofuoco, Kostis Velonis, Pae White.
Athens
Community in the Kibbutz, 2011
Marble,
ceramic, wood, acrylic, hardboard, veneer
20
x 30 x 10 cm
Pac
- Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea
radical
art and architecture
SUPER
SUPERSTUDIO
11
October 2015 - 06 January 2016
The
exhibition opens on the occasion of the 11a Giornata del
Contemporaneo, scheduled for Saturday 10th
October 2015 and promoted by AMACI - Associazione dei Musei d’Arte
Contemporanea Italiani, of which the PAC is a founding member.
