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DADAMAINO E MARIA LAI. TROVARE L’IGNOTO, exhibition at Galleria Six in Milan, with catalogue text by Elena Pontiggia, in collaboration with Dadamaino Archive and Maria Lai Archive. exhibition dedicated to Annalisa Guidetti. As Elena Pontiggia herself writes: At the end of the nineteenth century, Arthur Rimbaud hoped that an era would finally dawn in which women could achieve full freedom (or, to quote his far cruder words, in which “man, who has so far behaved ignobly towards her, would leave her free”). “The poetesses will be”, Rimbaud continues, and adds: “The woman will find the unknown”. Was the era Rimbaud prophesied born? It is legitimate to doubt it, observing certain data from today’s news and history. But it is also legitimate not to doubt it, observing other data, including the work of many contemporary women artists. Among these, Dadamaino and Maria Lai stand out in a very special way, and here, thanks to a happy idea of Galleria Six, they are brought together for the first time in a personal exhibition. Certainly, they had already been seen together in some group exhibitions, but a focus on them like this one, small but emblematic, seems to us to have never been proposed. The two artists are, of course, very different and the exhibition is in no way intended to make any kind of comparison or suggest non-existent affinities between their works. After all, an artist is always different from others, otherwise he is not an artist but an epigone. Dadamaino and Maria Lai, in particular, are different by birth (the former was born in Milan in 1930; the latter in Ulassai, Sardinia, in 1919), by training, by the artistic climate in which they lived and, even more so, by their poetics (the former, an exponent in 1960 of Manzoni and Castellani’s Azimut group, then moved towards optical and programmed art; the second, who lived in Rome from 1956 to the end of the century, after her beginnings in the sphere of realism, and later in informal art, was an interpreter of conceptual art and an anticipator of relational art). However, both of them, in their expressive journey, have found the unknown. In other words, we could also say that they understood that we are immersed in mystery. And they have shown us that mystery, not in order to unveil it (which is unrealistic an impossible), but to reveal that the mystery exists. For the occasion on 18 December, the new format of Galleria Six in Venice will be open with the exhibition of a work by Maria Lai , Calle de la Vida San Marco, 2530. images copyright: Fondazione Maria Lai and Archivio Dadamaino
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