The Art Quadrennial in Rome, together with the Biennial in Venice and the Triennial in Milan, can be considered one of the best exhibitive occasions for Italian contemporary art. 
An event that in all its editions has proven to be a periodic document that gathers the most significant trends of contemporary art made in Italy. In this sense, it has always been one of the most important seismographs in recording the fluctuations of the Italian art sector, helping us to understand the most significant events on the scene of visual arts and perceive the possible future evolutions.

In Italy we see many artists who try to find their way into the International élite. But they encounter many difficulties trying to emerge and they ask themselves many questions before managing to enter the system. Luckily our country, despite standing slightly back from the other nations, can boast the presence of excellent names. Few artists have really managed to scrape a living in a few years and have become very appreciated stars in the international art circuit. 

Title: theanyspacewhatever
Location: NEW YORK - Guggenheim Museum
Description: A genealogy of their shared history through site-specific installations of new, often self-reflexive works created on the occasion of this project.
Start Date: 2008-10-24
End Date: 2009-01-07

 

During the 1990s a number of artists claimed the exhibition as their medium. Working independently or in various collaborative constellations, they eschewed the individual object in favor of the exhibition environment as a dynamic arena, ever expanding its physical and temporal parameters.

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Recently Italy has been proving to be a rather “sanctimonious” country towards contemporary art. In short, we are before a nation that is shocked ridiculously by old artistic ideas. For instance, the case of the crucifixion theme: inventing a variation on the theme of the Christ’s death is sure to cause a polemic. History is full of this type of examples.

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Paduan artist Maurizio Cattelan, since the beginning of his howling rise in the contemporary art system, has always managed to make a strong impression, causing the printed media and websites of every type to talk about him constantly. An emblematic case occurred on 6th May 2004, when the city of Milan woke up bewildered to one of his works installed in Piazza XXIV Maggio. Three plastic manikins, representing children hanging from the branch of a large oak tree, provoked a great emotional impact and a huge psychological stir.