POP/BEAT - Italia 1960-1979 Liberi di Sognare

Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza

The exhibition investigates Pop Art and Beat Generation in Italy for the first time: a path summarized by the slogan "Free to dream", which corresponds well to the underlying feeling of that period, before the tragic awakening of the “anni di piombo”. The Pop section will offer almost a hundred works by 35 artists mainly in large formats, and sculptures. The Beat vibes will be guaranteed by the music of those years, broadcast in loop and there will be on display rare original documents of Gianni Milano, mentor of an entire generation, Aldo Piromalli, Andrea d'Anna, Gianni De Martino, Pietro Tartamella, Eros Alesi , Vincenzo Parrella and many others, as well as the militant artistic story of the Sicilian Anti-group.