1968: It’s Just a Beginning

Ester Coen

doi:10.6092/issn.2611-0075/8372

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Ester Coen University of L'Aquila
An expert on Futurism, Metaphysical art and Italian and International avant-gardes in the first half of the twentieth century, her research also extends in the sixties and seventies and the contemporary scene, with numerous essays and other publications. In collaboration with Giuliano Briganti she curated the exhibition Pittura Metafisica (Palazzo Grassi, Venice 1979) and edited the catalogue, while with Maurizio Calvesi she edited the Catalogue Raisonné of Umberto Boccioni’s works (1983). She curated with Bill Lieberman the Boccioni retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of New York in 1988 and has since been involved in many international exhibitions. She organised Richard Serra’s show at the Trajan’s Markets (Rome 1999), planned the Gary Hill show at the Coliseum (Rome 2005) and was one of the three committee members of the Futurism centenary exhibition (Pompidou Paris, Scuderie del Quirinale Rome and Tate Modern London) celebrating in the same year (2009) with Futurism 100: Illuminations. Avant-gardes Compared. Italy-Germany-Russia the anniversary at MART in Rovereto. In 2015 she focused on Matisse’s fascination for decorative arts (Arabesque, Scuderie del Quirinale Rome) and at the end of 2017 a show organized at La Galleria Nazionale in Rome anticipated the fifty years of the 1968 “revolution”.
Full professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Aquila, she lives in Rome.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2611-0075/8372

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1968, Revolution, Arte povera, Conceptual, Minimal, Land art, Futurism

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1968 marks the beginning of a social, political and cultural revolution, with all of its internal contradictions. It engulfs the artistic world on both sides of the Atlantic in a veritable transformation, a cathartic rebirth crystalized through the reconfiguration of traditional canons. This creative impulse refuses any artifice, assimilates contradictions, incorporates experience and imaginary worlds, restructures ideas about space and time, definitely severing the boundary between object and concept, short circuiting reality and the imaginary. Inspired by codes of common origins, minimalism, conceptual art, arte povera and land art nonetheless carry diversity in their approaches and methods; yet they coexist and coalesce, in an intricate weave of exchange and rhythmic syncronicity.

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