Di due miei reenactments: Opera o comportamento e La ripetizione differente
abstract
Two reenactments are the subjects of this essay: the first devoted to a section of the 1972 Venice Biennale, where Italian participation was entitled Opera o comportamento (Work or Attitude), edited by Francesco Arcangeli and Renato Barilli, reconstituted in summer 2017 for the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato as Comportamento. Biennale di Venezia. Padiglione Italia and the re-making of an exhibition Barilli held in 1974 at the Fondazione Giorgio Marconi in Milan, curated in the same place in 2014. After 1972 Renato Barilli perceived the radical change in time that would lead to the so-called Mode Rétro, or Citationism, also falling within the general sphere of Postmodernism, but he preferred to name those phenomena of reenactments, after a pair made by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, “different repetitions”.
Keywords: Germano Olivotto • Mario Merz • Francesco Arcangeli • Venice Biennale 1972 • Exhibition Gennnaio 70 • Franco Vaccari • Fondazione Giorgio Marconi • Luciano Fabro • Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci di Pra • Reenactment • Postmodernism • Gino De Dominicis