Image: Palazzo Attems, Gorizia
‘Italia Settanta. La creatività come antidoto. Arte Moda Design’ presents the creative culture of the 1970s at Palazzo Attems Petzenstein in Gorizia, bringing together a period defined by interwoven artistic, fashion and design practices. The exhibition is included in a September 2026 cultural guide, which describes the project as a journey through the decade’s varied creative expressions, ideas and revolutions.
The exhibition’s title, which translates as ‘Italy in the Seventies. Creativity as an Antidote’, frames creativity as the central lens through which the period is approached. The available description does not specify the exhibition’s opening or closing dates, its number of works, its curators, or the lenders involved. It instead emphasizes the breadth of the decade and the connections among different cultural fields.
The selection includes artists ranging from Alberto Burri and Afro to Gino De Dominicis and Michelangelo Pistoletto. Their inclusion indicates a trajectory that moves from major postwar Italian artistic practices toward the conceptual investigations associated with De Dominicis and Pistoletto. The source material does not identify individual works or outline how the artists are arranged within the exhibition.
Burri’s presence places the exhibition in relation to one of the defining figures of postwar Italian art. Afro, whose work is also cited, extends the presentation toward the country’s engagement with abstraction and modern painting. De Dominicis and Pistoletto, meanwhile, are described in connection with conceptual research, suggesting that the exhibition’s account of the 1970s encompasses shifts in artistic language as well as changing approaches to the status of the artwork.
The stated focus on art, fashion and design broadens the exhibition beyond a narrowly medium-specific survey. Its premise is to recount a decade through the exchanges, suggestions and stories that linked creative disciplines. No further information is provided about the fashion designers, design objects, brands or specific historical events represented, so the exhibition’s interdisciplinary scope remains the principal confirmed detail.
Palazzo Attems Petzenstein, the listed venue in Gorizia, is the setting for this account of 1970s creativity. The guide presents the exhibition alongside other cultural destinations and events in Italy, but the material supplied for ‘Italia Settanta’ does not provide visitor information such as admission, opening hours or a confirmed run. Those details have not been specified in the available announcement.
