” Everyone thought my intention was to destroy, but it’s not true: I’m building.“ Lucio Fontana

“Once we have destroyed, cut up, deconstructed the real, we are left with a network of strong metal wires, a human construction full of power. And this is where we pick up the work. We take control of these wires and double them. Thus new figures are created, new realities are imagined. Imagination is liberated. On the horizon of being, freedom is superior, power approaches possibility. We can thus glimpse new subjectivities, new fields of action, new cooperative syntheses.” Toni Negri
 

Tornabuoni Art opens its doors to curator Marc Donnadieu, who turns his critical gaze on the gallery’s post-war masterpieces. In keeping with his experimental approach, he draws out a new thread, highlighting the generative power of the destructive actions to which artists subjected the work of art after the Second World War.

Twenty-five works by twenty-two Italian and international artists are assembled in a trilingual alphabet, each letter the beginning of an iconoclastic verb: Enrico Baj ‘‘attacks’’, Alberto Burri ‘‘burns’’, while Arman ‘‘vandalizes’’ and Tancredi ‘‘zigzags’’.