Between Art and Life, the Florence exhibition in Palazzo Pitti curated by Alberto Salvadori – produced and sponsored by the Osservatorio Arti Contemporanee (OAC) and the Fondazione Pitti Discovery, with the cooperation of the Andrea Rosen Gallery of New York and the Galleria Massimo De Carlo of Milan, presents a selection of more than 80 works of the artist, two of which were created specifically for this occasion. The show ranges from wagon stations to living systems and capsules for extreme situations, such as the desert, to clothing-uniforms, to gouaches, panel paintings and paper rugs. 

“To see Andrea Zittel at the Galleria del Costume in Palazzo Pitti”, says Alberto Salvadori, the exhibition curator, “is to discover daily life, the personal dimension of living in a space that has turned the tiniest gestures of a lost intimacy into something fit for a museum”.

The exhibition opening at Palazzo Pitti – and this being Andrea Zittel’s first show in a public museum in Italy – will be the core artistic event of the forthcoming Pitti Uomo fashion week. The exhibiton will show at Galleria del Costume, Sale della Meridiana from June 18th until July 16th 2010.

A PROJECT BY FONDAZIONE PITTI DISCOVERY AND
OSSERVATORIO ARTI CONTEMPORANEE
CURATED BY ALBERTO SALVADORI
PALAZZO PITTI – FLORENCE
FROM 18 JUNE TO 16 JULY 2010
ON THE OCCASION OF PITTI UOMO 78

More cool people from Carrie Mundane’s Cassette Playa performance and party for Pitti Immagine at Pitti Uomo 2008. 

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Heather tells us all about The Cloud, the interactive art installation created by the MIT Mobile Experience Lab expressly for Pitti Immagine and Pitti Uomo 74 / 2008.

Last Thursday 19 June, London designer Carri Mundane took her Cassette Playa crew to Pitti Immagine for an exclusive live video jumpdance installation at Colleggio of the Poggio Imperiale, a beautiful location up in the hills overlooking Florence. 

Carri Mundane and her 50-strong crew from London, Tokyo, Los Angeles and New York, took over the Colleggio’s gymnasium, with indoor and outdoor performances including Carrie’s new silk digital collage Utube Utopia Tees, projected on three huge screens located in the gardens of the Colleggio. For more detailed info on Carri Mundane, please visit our website.

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