The End of the World

The sense of an exhibition can also be understood in the structure of the accompanying catalogue: starting with the pages of the Journal, the Centro Pecci’s online magazine, reproduced here as if they were pages from a now distant past, up to the contributions on the Future, offering a glimpse of what awaits us. Between the past and the future, the section on the Present examines the works in the exhibition, a sort of exercise in distance that pushes us to see our present from afar. The opening exhibition of the renovated Centro Pecci is accompanied by a series of events and side exhibitions in the city of Prato and the region, involving Florence, Pisa and Vinci, and outlined in the pages of this catalogue: Prologue took the works of the Pecci Collection to prestigious cultural institutes in Tuscany; Contemporary Tuscany mapped out an urban art path in the Prato area for the first time; The Tower of Babel, an initiative by Tuscan gallery owners in a spectacular building representing the industrial architecture of Prato; and finally TU35 / 2016 dedicated to young Tuscan emerging artists.

Artists: Adel Abdessemed, Jananne Al-Ani, Darren Almond, Giovanna Amoroso & Istvan Zimmermann, Anonimi del Paleolitico inferiore, Anonimo del Paleolitico superiore, Aristide Antonas, Riccardo Arena, Kader Attia, Francis Bacon, Babi Badalov, Faycal Baghriche, Francesco Bertelé, Rossella Biscotti, Björk, Umberto Boccioni, Kerstin Brätsch, Cai Guo-Qiang, Julius von Bismarck, & Julian Charrière, Ali Cherri, Analivia Cordeiro, Isabelle Cornaro, Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, Hanne Darboven, Pippo Delbono, Marcel Duchamp, Marlene Dumas, Jimmie Durham, Olafur Eliasson, Didier Fiuza Faustino, Federico Fellini, Lucio Fontana, Carlos Garaicoa, Adalberto Giazotto, Arash Hanaei, Camille Henrot, Thomas Hirschhorn, Joakim, Polina Kanis, Tadeusz Kantor, Tigran Khachatryan, Robert Kuœmirowski, Andrey Kuzkin, Volodymyr Kuznetsov, Suzanne Lacy, Ahmed Mater, Boris Mikhailov, NASA, Henrique Oliveira, Lydia Ourahmane, Pëtr Pavlensky, Gianni Pettena, Pablo Picasso, Agnieszka Polska, Pussy Riot / Taisiya Krugovykh, Qiu Zhijie, Józef Robakowski, Batoul S’Himi, Fari Shams, Santiago Sierra, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Luis Urculo, Emmanuel Van der Auwera, Ekaterina Vasilyeva & Hanna Zubkova, Andy Warhol, Ingrid Wildi Merino, Andrzej Wróblewski, Alik Yakubovich, David Zink Yi

Prato, Centro Pecci, October 2016 - March 2017