Words of Artists.

15 Apr-13 July 2009. This exhibition brings together works by different authors, starting with some famous Futurists, who have used the written word in their works. Among the artists is Joseph Kosuth, who displays two canvases which quote famous phrases from contemporary culture, Alighiero Boetti, who uses famous labels of salt and sugar in a provocative way, Maurizio Nannucci who displays his work Red and Ben Vautier and enjoys unmasking the complicated mechanisms of the world of art. For the younger generation of artists the word assumes different variants: Nicola Bolla uses fireworks to describe the vanity of glamour messages; Marco Neri and Bertozzi&Casoni ironically play with misunderstandings created by phonetics; Raymond Pettibon