Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea
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Location | Via Palestro 14, Milan, Italy |
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Type | art museum |
Director | Domenico Piraina |
Website | www |
The Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea or PAC is a
History
In 1947 the Municipality of Milan, pressed by the need to find a new exhibition space for contemporary art, focused its attention on the site of
In 1993 a bomb destroyed the building (Via Palestro massacre) at a time when Italy was heavily committed in its fight against the Mafia. Gardella subsequently rebuilt the exhibiting space according to the original design, though with key technical improvements. In 1996 PAC resumed its normal activity with an exhibition dedicated to Leo Castelli.
Over the past thirty years PAC have organised solo presentations of international artists such as Marina Abramovic, Laurie Anderson, Jivya Soma Mashe, Christian Boltanski, Chen Zhen, Lucio Fontana, Franko B, Regina José Galindo, Alberto Garutti, Jannis Kounellis, Richard Long, Robert Motherwell, Pino Pascali, Cindy Sherman, Yinka Shonibare, Tony Oursler, Jeff Wall and Zhang Huan.
In 1994 Maurizio Cattelan presented at the Laure Genillard Gallery in London a sculpture called Lullaby consisting of a blue bag containing debris he collected from PAC after the bombing. The piece is part of the collection of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin.[1]
References
- ^ "Maurizio Cattelan - Lullaby London, 1994 (Rubble and bag)". Italian Area - Contemporary Art Archive. Archived from the original on February 28, 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2018.