Post Zang Tumb Tuuum. Art Life Politics: Italia 1918-1943, an exhibition curated by Germano Celant, explores the world of art and culture in Italy in the interwar years. It is based on research into documentary and photographic evidence of the time, revealing the political and social context in which the works of art were created and exhibited, and how they were interpreted by the public. As a result, more than 500 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, posters, pieces of furniture and architectural plans and models have been selected, and displayed alongside period images, original publications, letters, magazines, press clippings and private photographs. This serves to highlight the issue of decontextualisation within exhibitions, where works of art are traditionally reduced to neutral, isolated objects. The exhibition design, conceived by 2×4 in conjunction with the curator, provides an immersive experience comprising twenty partial reconstructions of public and private exhibition rooms. These full-size recreations of period photographs contain original works by artists including Giacomo Balla, Carlo Carrà, Felice Casorati, Giorgio de Chirico, Fortunato Depero, Filippo de Pisis, Arturo Martini, Fausto Melotti, Giorgio Morandi, Scipione, Gino Severini, Mario Sironi, Arturo Tosi and Adolfo Wildt.
Fondazione Prada – Largo Isarco 2, Milan – from 18 February to 25 June 2018.