L'arte e la città / Art and the city

From 20 November 2021 the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art. welcomes the exhibition "L'arte e la città / Art and the city" curated by Stefano Pezzato, Head of Collections and Archives of the Pecci Center. In collaboration and in connection with the Information and Documentation Center CID / Visual Arts and Urban Center, City of Prato.

An exhibition that investigates the relationship between contemporary art and the urban environment through works from museum collections and rare archive materials, an unexplored overview of the relationship between contemporary art and the urban environment.

The exhibition itinerary is divided into three sections within the large wing of the museum, which extends and overlooks the axis of Viale della Repubblica: the city investigated and interpreted by various contemporary artists; the art produced in the last decades, related or integrated to the urban reality; contemporary art in the fabric of Prato and in the very setting of the Pecci Center.

The artists on the exhibition: Andrea Abati, Andreoni & Fortugno, Nobuyoshi Araki, Marco Bagnoli, Richard Baquié, Massimo Barzagli, Rossella Biscotti, Eberhard Bosslet, Botto & Bruno, Marcos Chaves, Marcelo Cidade, Marco Cingolani, William Eggleston, Anna Esposito, Jan Fabre (con Ilya Kabakov), Fischli & Weiss, Rainer Ganahl, Gilbert & George, Nan Goldin, Dmitri Gutov (per Radek Community), Haas & Hahn, Takashi Homma, Karen Kilimnik, Kinkaleri, Philip Lorca di Corcia, Lucia Marcucci, Mario Mariotti, Fausto Melotti, Nino Migliori, Domingo Milella, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Fabrizio Plessi, Anne & Patrick Poirier, Guido Sartorelli, Mauro Staccioli, Wolfgang Tillmans, Marco Tirelli, Leonid Tishkov, Rodolfo Vitone, Andy Warhol, Erwin Wurm.