Three major exhibitions have been created to describe and interpret forty years in the history of Italy. With art as its focal point, artistic expressions are positioned within the cultural and socio-economic context of these decades that proved to be crucial for Italy: those from 1947 to 1989, from shortly after World War II until the fall of the Berlin Wall.

“The Great Game. Art forms in Italy 1947 – 1989” – write the curators Luigi Cavadini, Bruno Corà and Giacinto Di Pietrantonio – examines the wealth of research and results achieved in the forty years — corresponding to the period now universally known as the Cold War — through experimentation with new means and new aesthetic territories by art and the relations, confluences and/or influences established in many cases with architecture, cinema, design, economic-industrial, publications, photography and photojournalism, society, theater, television.

The exhibition focuses on this “history”, precisely because of its diversified evolution, for the decidedly extensive consequences that it will have on the research in the following decades and the relations that fall into place with the different aspects of culture and society and the economy of the times.

The exhibition is distributed in three exhibition spaces chronologically with the years immediately following the War until 1958 exhibited at the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Lissone, and the period of 1959-1972 at the Rotonda di Via Besana in Milan and the period from 1973 to 1989 at the GAMeC in Bergamo.

Alessandro Guerriero, Ritratto di Guerriero, performance.