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CONTEMPORARY ART IN LOMBARDIA
GENERATION 40’s

December 10, 2006 to February 11, 2007
Opening hours: Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, holidays: 10-12 am / 3.00 - 5.00 pm
Tickets: Euro 2.60   cut- rate tickets:  Euro 1.60

The exhibit will open on Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 5.00 p.m

Press release

The exhibit “Contemporary art in Lombardia – Generation 40’s” is the third chapter in an ongoing project that started several years ago, designed by Ad Acta Cultural Association and sponsored by Regione Lombardia, Direzione Generale Culture, Identità e Autonomie della Lombardia, and in cooperation with Comune di Maccagno.
After the overview and in-depth analysis of both “Generation 50’s” and Generation 60’s,” the project about contemporary art in Lombardy widens its scope even further by focusing on “Generation 40’s”.

The exhibit will be hosted by Museo Parisi-Valle first, then the works will be moved to Milan at Spazio Guicciardini (February and March 2007) to finally be displayed in the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum in Gazoldo degli Ippoliti (spring 2007).
This exhibition’s criteria are based on the artists’ professionalism and visual poetry. The emphasis is on the diverse personalities and on the different artistic areas of the artists involved in this exhibits that turns into a stage for strong emotions.

Comune di Maccagno, Provincia di Milano, and Comune of Gazoldo degli Ippoliti have partecipated to the project, which is also sponsored by Provincia di Varese and Provincia di Mantova, while Claudio Rizzi designed the exhibition. The catalog features an introduction by Raffaele de Grada.

The following artists are included in the exhibition:

Sergio Alberti, Vincenzo Balena, Franco Bassignani, Edoardo Bassoli, Paolo Borghi, Wanda Broggi, Brunivo Buttarelli, Angelo Cagnone, Ferdinando Capisani, Loriana Castano, Francesco Dalmaschio, Fernando De Filippi, Mario de Leo, Gioxe De Micheli, Luciano Gatti, Antonio Gennari, Pierantonio Manca, Antonio Miano, Marcello Morandini, Sandro Negri, Vincenzo Parea, Raffaele Penna, Lucia Pescador, Massimo Piazza, Dolores Previtali, Roberto Rampinelli, Stefano Soddu, Fausta Squatriti, Armanda Verdirame, Pierantonio Verga, Claudio Zanini.

The catalog, published by Nicolini Editore, also includes a tribute to Libero Ferretti and Paolo Minoli, along with the works on display and exhaustive information about the artists.

Artists list