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Cover: Giuseppe Chiari, Senza titolo (Gesti sul piano)<\/i>, 1974\/1990. Centro Pecci, Prato. Dono dell’artista<\/p><\/div>\n
[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”5px”][vc_column_text]Casa Masaccio | Centro per l\u2019Arte Contemporanea <\/strong>pays homage to the art critic Lara-Vinca Masini<\/strong> (Florence, 1923\u20132021) with an exhibition addressed to the dialogue between contemporary arts in Tuscany. As can be inferred from the title, COMING SOON \/ GETTING BACK<\/i> <\/strong>will retrieve and update the reflections brought about by Masini in the Arteoggi Firenze \u2013 USA \/ Artoday USA \u2013 Florence<\/i> historical exhibition from 1986, held in San Giovanni Valdarno and other locations across Tuscany and later moved to the United States.<\/p>\n Thanks to a collaboration with the Centro Pecci in Prato, the leading museum of the Tuscan Network of Contemporary Art, COMING SOON \/ GETTING BACK <\/i><\/strong>falls into the framework of a rich programme of activities promoted to celebrate the centenary anniversary of Lara-Vinca Masini. La memoria del futuro<\/i>. The exhibition will feature works by some of the artists selected by Masini in 1986 as representatives of what she defined an \u201cinternational cultural and artistic koin\u00e8\u201d. These works will be displayed next to testimonies and projects that highlight the connections between Masini\u2019s investigations, her research and publications, and the events embracing contemporary art, architecture, and the urban fabric held in San Giovanni Valdarno over the past sixty years.<\/p>\n The new exhibition hosted in Casa Masaccio<\/strong> welcomes back some of the artists that were invited to San Giovanni Valdarno in 1986, bringing together Giuseppe Chiari<\/strong>\u2019s musical improvisations and Mario<\/strong> Mariotti<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cvisible music\u201d, Maurizio Nannucci<\/strong>\u2019s artistic publishing and the artisanal \u201cnon-design\u201d promoted by Lapo Binazzi (UFO)<\/strong>, Fabrizio Corneli<\/strong>\u2019s dynamic sculpture and Alberto Moretti<\/strong>\u2019s existentialist painting, Paolo Masi<\/strong>\u2019s chromatic analysis, Renato Ranaldi<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cprecarious\u201d materials, Luciano Bartolini<\/strong>\u2019s \u201csuggestive labyrinths\u201d.<\/p>\n And, then, works and archival records testifying to Ketty La Rocca<\/strong>\u2019s poetics and art performance experience, to Joseph Beuys<\/strong>\u2019 \u201csocial sculpture\u201d, the designs of \u201cprovisional architecture\u201d advanced by the Haus-Rucker-Co<\/strong> group, the architecture as a \u201cmedium of communication\u201d promoted by Hans Hollein<\/strong>. Accompanying this blend of artistic languages and the new visions conceived for public spaces, including the main square, is Gianni Pettena<\/strong>\u2019s provocative aesthetics and the collective installation \u201cPanni\u201d, after an urban project by Mario Mariotti (works by Giuseppe Chiari, Terry Fox, Riccardo Guarneri, Carlo Guaita, Paul Herberg, Lucia Marcucci, Fabio Mauri, Janet Mullarney, Andreas Neumann, Luciano Ori, Lucia Romualdi).<\/p>\n Among the artists present in the new exhibition, we will find some of the protagonists who were showcased at past events held in San Giovanni Valdarno or who collaborated with Lara-Vinca Masini at historical art events, including the 1978 Venice Art Biennale and the Florentine project Umanesimo, Disumanesimo nell\u2019arte europea 1890\/1980<\/i>. The dialogue between the arts, which was at the heart of Masini\u2019s philosophy, will turn the town of San Giovanni Valdarno, both inside the framework of Casa Masaccio and outside of it, into a container of ideas and proposals advanced by artists, architects, designers, performers.<\/p>\n We would like to thank: Desdemona Ventroni<\/strong> is an art historian and Ph.D. She is an expert in art archives and repositories, and gallery spaces. In 2015, for Casa Masaccio, she organized a symposium on the theme Il Premio Masaccio: storia e progetti <\/i>(The Masaccio Awards: History and Projects<\/i>) and, between 2016 and 2017, she curated the exhibitions Casa Masaccio: Altri racconti <\/i>(Casa Masaccio: Other Tales<\/i>) and Casa Masaccio Anthology e Geografie nel tempo <\/i>(Casa Masaccio Anthology and Time Geographies<\/i>). She also curated the Art on film<\/i> programs in collaboration with Lo Schermo dell’arte, Festival di cinema e arte contemporanea<\/i> in Florence. This year, she is invited to hold a public lecture (Saturday 10 February 2024 at 5:00 pm concomitantly with the vernissage of the exhibition) on the topic of Arteoggi\/Artoday exhibit of<\/i> 1986, Masini\u2019s views as an art critic, and the dialogue between the arts in San Giovanni Valdarno<\/i><\/strong>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Archivio Lara-Vinca Masini, Archivio Mario Mariottti, CID\/Arti Visive and Centro per l\u2019arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
\nRaul Dominguez and Fondazione Alberto Moretti, Carmignano (Prato)
\nFrittelli arte contemporanea, Florence
\nRenato Ranaldi
\nFondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Prato<\/p>\n
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