"The provocative intentions of my works are similar to my ecstatic dreams: the desire to communicate, the desire to establish an unbroken thread with others, and at the same time, precisely, to provoke astonishment, perhaps even indignation or scandal," wrote Lucia Marcucci in her memoirs in 2005.
This sets the tone for the exhibition dedicated by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (BAIT) from Nice to this figure of the Italian avant-garde, and in particular of Gruppo 70, while a large focus is devoted, in the same place, to the bubbling transalpine artistic scene of the 1960s-1970s.
A colorful and cheeky avant-garde, joyful and deliberately irreverent, making great use of détournement (of images and language, codes, forms and materials) to wipe the slate clean of the past and invent new forms.
Among the 120 works by the 56 artists presented, a video by Marinella Pirelli beautifully sets the tone and sums up the spirit of the adventure: it shows flower petals being burned one by one by the incandescent end of a cigarette…
“Vita Nuova. New Challenges for Art in Italy 1960-1975” – MAMAC
Place Yves Klein, Nice
Until October 2