Image: Museo del Novecento, Milan
Museo del Novecento in Milan is presenting a room devoted entirely to Paolo Scirpa, an artist associated with objective and kinetic tendencies shaped by the principles of Constructivism and Neoplasticism. The presentation forms part of the museum’s current programme of collection-based studies, which examines selected figures in Italian art of the second half of the 20th century.
The museum’s announcement describes Scirpa as one of the protagonists of these object-oriented and kinetic developments. It places his work within a history of artistic research concerned with Constructivist and Neoplasticist values, while also noting its connection to more recent applications of technology. No individual works, installation dates or closing date are specified in the announcement.
The Scirpa presentation is included among the exhibitions and collection focuses currently listed by the museum. The same programme includes a focus on Alberto Garutti, tracing five decades of research from photographic works of the 1950s to projects addressing public space, and a Bruno Munari presentation examining how the artist moved through kinetic and programmed art while renewing those languages in unexpected directions. These are separate collection presentations rather than parts of the Scirpa room.
Museo del Novecento describes itself as a museum of 20th- and 21st-century art, with more than 300 works on view at its Piazza Duomo 8 site. Its collection route covers the historical avant-gardes, art between the two world wars, abstraction, Informel and developments through the beginning of the 1990s. The museum also highlights its holdings in Futurism, described on its website as the world’s most important collection of the movement.
The institution’s September newsletter lists the Paolo Scirpa presentation alongside ‘Il primo Picasso di Milano’, a research and exhibition focus on the political and social importance of the first work by Pablo Picasso to enter the collections of the Municipality of Milan. The museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 7:30pm, and Thursday from 10am to 10:30pm; it is closed on Mondays, with last admission one hour before closing.
