Art is always contemporary. From this principle and the renewed collaboration between the Pinacoteca and the Accademia di Belle Arti springs the exhibition Contemporary Brera. Fabro Garutti Kounellis Paolini, a tribute to four great artists whose names are variously associated with Brera. The exhibition promotes the active presence of Contemporary Art in a historic museum such as the Pinacoteca, in keeping with the well-established role of the Palazzo di Brera as a laboratory for innovation. At the same time, it updates the revolutionary message of Processo per il museo, organized by Franco Russoli in the short-lived 1970s season of his career, encouraging visitors to experience the palace as a dynamic space in which the arts undergo a constant rebirth.
On display are Luciano Fabro’s Groma per Spinoza, Io (L’Uovo) and Modo di mettere le lenzuola, and new installations have been especially designed by Alberto Garutti, Jannis Kounellis and Giulio Paolini for the rooms of the Pinacoteca, from the spacious Napoleonic halls to the chapel of St. Joseph – where they stand in direct and ‘simultaneous’ contact with the masterpieces by Raffaello, Bernardino Luini and Bramantino. This juxtaposition of works from different periods confirms and renews the ultimate significance of exhibiting art, as well as the role that the Palazzo di Brera is seeking to reclaim: that of a venue for observation, discovery and personal, inner research, always open to the contemporary.
Processo per il museo - Artisti contemporanei a Brera
Processo per il museo - Contemporary Artists in Brera
Sandrina Bandera
La cesura dell’immagine e la singolarità dello spazio espositivo
The Caesura of the Image and the Singularity of the Exhibition Space
Federico Ferrari
Brera in contemporaneo Fabro Garutti Kounellis Paolini
Contemporary Brera Fabro Garutti Kounellis Paolini
Giovanni Iovane
LUCIANO FABRO
Groma per Spinoza
Raffaella Pulejo, Giovanni Iovane
Lezioni / Lessons
Luciano Fabro
Io (L’Uovo)
Io (L’Uovo) / I (The Egg)
Luciano Fabro
ALBERTO GARUTTI
Appunti per una teoria / Notes for a Theory
Alberto Garutti
JANNIS KOUNELLIS
Geografia dei musei Jannis Kounellis
The Geography of Museums Jannis Kounellis
Giovanni Iovane
GIULIO PAOLINI
Museo / Museum
Giulio Paolini
brera in contemporaneo / contemporary brera
pinacoteca