Giorgio Persano Torino |
Gallery view during
the exhibition by
Susy Gomez, 2001
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Giorgio Persano started his activity in the Seventies with the gallery Multipli, by dedicating himself to research in the international contemporary graphics, with particular attention to the American Pop Art and the Italian Poor Art settings.
He implements graphic works in limited edition with artists, including Pistoletto, Zorio, Salvo, Paolini, Boetti and Calzolari. In 1975, some of these artists start using the spaces of the gallery as their own studio and implemented in this location interventions and installations, which were not strictly binding to the modalities of the exhibitions: a work in progress intervention of Nicola De Maria, for instance, remained in exhibition for seven months.
By reducing its commitment in the graphic sector, under the new name of Persano Gallery, in the following years, a regular activity of periodical exhibitions gets started, by alternating the performance of artists, already known, such as Pistoletto, Calzolari, Paladino, De Maria, Kosuth, West, G.Merz, Lewitt, Neuhaus, Solano, Sarmento, Bagnoli, Venet, with the co-operation of younger artists, including Gomez, Barclay, Cabrita Reis, Romano, Varotsos,
Ferrara, Gostner, Benetti, Van Oost, Fauguet, Brandl, Serebriakova.
This new generation of artists, who got in on the international art scene starting from the Eighties, have one thing in common: the search, carried out by means of different languages, on their own cultural roots, which can be traced back to the different European traditions.
By these choices, the goal of the gallery is to file and to increase the value of a variety of experiences, linked, on the one hand, to the cultural history of the different countries, the artists come from, and, on the other, deeply belonging to a wider and specifically European common cultural context.
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