ITALIAN GENIUS NOW –  HOME SWEET HOME
A project of Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci-Prato. Curated by Marco Bazzini

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Following the success of the itinerary exhibition, promoted by Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italian Genius Now, that presented Italian art and design from 1950 to 2000 in Hanoi and Singapore in 2007 and

later in Seul, Tokyo, Taipei and New Delhi in 2008 to finally arrive in Rome in 2009. The new exhibition project in 2010 researches Italian art, from 2000 until nowadays.
Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci is pleased to announce that the project Italian Genius Now - Home Sweet Home, in collaboration with Toscana Promozione, has received the approval and support of the Commission General of Italy for Shanghai World Expo 2010, and it has been chosen to present the contemporary art in Tuscany at the Italy’s Pavilion on the occasion of the World Expo 2010 Shanghai/Better City, Better Life.
The exhibition Italian Genius Now - Home Sweet Home although it remains sensitive to the current topic of devastating environmental situation, has no intention to critically emphasize our unconscious behavior towards our environment, it does not underline the ecological horrors that are destroying the balance between us and our surroundings.
Art requests a different reaction and a different approach to the problem. It creates visions that inspire reflection and awareness of mutual existence between environment and its inhabitants and their interaction.
The most intimate relationship between the people and their environment is their habitat. Creating from our environment a space, cultivate it, and make it our own, has always been a principal human need. The building activity is firmly connected to the local communities in terms of their costumes and needs and to the territory in terms of the climate, landscape and material offers. Under these circumstances the settlements are always a result of an interaction between humans and their surroundings.
Starting from the fantastic vision of the environment and living in the work of Superstudio, Supersurface/Life, 1972, through the works of Massimo Bartolini, Alice Cattaneo, Paolo Canevari, Loris Cecchini, Francesco De Grandi, Michael Fliri e Gianni Pettena, this exhibition researches the topics of living the space and environment and their relation to architecture, building, creating and inventing what we can call home. We are invited to imagine the diversity of development experience, new urbanistic discoveries and new approaches to building and designing a human habitat always keeping in mind the fragility of the equilibrium we have to maintain. These innovative styles that open view to different vital and working conditions are bound to propose and promote the sustainability in development and growth of numerous communities.