From Merz to Pistoletto, twenty years of Galleria Pieroni at the Maxxi
The Merz spiral, a monumental Pistoletto's hand, Fabro's shiny surfaces, a sofa Pisani's vegetable, De Dominicis's suspended hat. Not "just" a gallery, but a space for relationships and exchanges, where art took shape through harmony, experiments and gestures shared. After a long and careful sorting work, the Maxxi presents the archive of the historic Gallery to the public Pieroni, founded by Mario Pieroni and Dora Stiefelmeier in the two Rome and Pescara branches, with In viaggio per l'arte. The Gallery Pieroni 1975 - 1992, edited by Stefano Chiodi (until 31 August). "With this focus - says the president of the Foundation Maxxi, Emanuela Bruni - we renew our commitment to safeguard and to enhance the memory of contemporary art, making it accessible and alive for today's audiences. Traveling for art is a tribute to creative freedom, to the courage of independent choices, to the power of the relationships they generate beauty". Starting from the iconic Spiral Table by Mario Merz, which in the The Maxxi rooms become a narrative tool, through photographs, publications, projects and correspondences, here almost twenty years of activity, between experiences, languages and visions heterogeneous. An adventure lasting sixty-eight exhibitions, from Bagno Bourbon of Pescara (1975-1978) at the spaces of via Panisperna in Rome (1979-1992), which today provide a map of the transformation of contemporary art in Italy and Europe, between continuity and ruptures, conceptual rigor and poetic freedom. But they also testify, on the one hand, to the dialogue with poor art and the conceptual and environmental research of the Sixties and Seventies, with artists such as Alighiero Boetti, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto. And on the other hand the openness towards the new practices of 1980s with the gallery becoming a meeting place between generations, welcoming independent figures such as Carla Accardi, Meret Oppenheim, Gerard Richter and the new international scene and Italian, from Günther Förg to Isa Genzken, from Marco Bagnoli to Franz West.
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