International Exhibition of Nothing
International Exhibition of Nothing (Esposizione internazionale del Niente) was a modern art and conceptual movement which originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, based on nothing, on emptiness, on the invisible, the pieces are an "empty space".
The Publishing manifestos of International Exhibition of Nothing has been a feature of the invisible art movement led by Piero Manzoni.
International Exhibition of Nothing is an exhibition invented in 1960 by a group of artists including Piero Manzoni,[1] Enrico Castellani, Carl Laszlo, Heinz Mack, in which an exhibition of invisible works was represented, the exhibition will then be exhibited again a year later in the Netherlands. In 2015,[2] the exhibition is once again held in Milan in collaboration with the Manzoni Foundation, also exhibited the original "Manifesto" of the time, which was published in Basel in 1960.[3][4]
Main Manifesti
- Alfred Jarry, Patafisica (1896)
- Marcel Duchamp
- Vanishing Point, Jean Baudrillard
- Souvenirs de James Joyce, Philippe Soupault
- Pensiero di Bergson, premio Nobel (1927)
- Esposizione internazionale del Niente, Milano, 1960
- International Exhibition of Nothing, Amsterdam, 1961
- Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957-2012, Londra, 2012[5]
- Esposizione internazionale del Niente, Milano, 2015
- Buddha in contemplation, Piazza della Scala, Milano, 2021
Main works: "When art is invisible"
- Uberto Boccioni, the space in futurism
- Alighiero Boetti, the space in futurism
- Gino Severini, the space in futurism
- Marcel Duchamp, Airs de Paris (1919)
- Marcel Duchamp, Fontana (1917), Ready-made
- Piero Manzoni, Corpo d'aria ("Body of Air", 1959-1960)
- Piero Manzoni, Fiato d'artista
- John Cage, music 4′33″, four minutes, thirty-three seconds of silent piece (1952)
- Piero Manzoni, Achrome (1957-1963), invisible colors
- Yves Klein, Vacuum (1958)
- Lucio Fontana, I tagli (1958)
- Gino De Dominicis, Cubo invisibile (1967), represented by a square drawn on the ground
- Jeff Koons, Vacuum Cleaner (1981), Ready-made, MOMA
- Salvatore Garau, I Am (2020), represented by a circle and a rectangle drawn on the ground
- Damien Hirst, Ping Pong[6]
- Alighiero Boetti, MOMA[7]
References
- ↑ Fondazione Manzoni "1960. Mostre in Italia e nel mondo", Milano, 2015
- ↑ The Open Box, "Esposizione Internazioanle del Niente", Milano, 2015
- ↑ Askanews, "Milano, Esposizione internazionale del Niente: arte come nel 1960A The Open Box una "prima" del progetto di Manzoni e Castellani", Milano, 2015
- ↑ "Askanews, "Il nulla. A Milano l'Esposizione del Niente di Manzoni", Milano, 2015". Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
- ↑ L’arte invisibile in mostra a Londra. «Ma la creazione non è astensione dal giudizio», Tempi, 2012
- ↑ [1] Damien Hirst (b.1965) Relationships, London, ICA Editions, 1991, Christie's, contemporary art
- ↑ [2] Alighiero Boetti, Italian, 1940–1994, MOMA, New York
Bibliography
- Giorgio Di Genova, "Storia dell'arte italiana del '900: Generazione anni Trenta", 2000, ISBN 9788885345812
- Francesco Tedeschi, "Lo spazio ridefinito: Aricò, Castellani, Coletta, Dadamaino, Garutti, Nagasawa, Pinelli, Staccioli, Vago, Varisco," 1998, ISBN 9788820212766
- Il Vieri, 1971