ZONANON PROFIT ART SPACE FLORENCE ITALYORIGINALS DOCUMENTS INFORMATION BOOKS FILMS AUDIOWORKS05-30.04.1979

ZONA, the non-commercial art meeting place in Florence, Italy,
presents a large exhibition at Galerie S:t Petri in Lund from April 5 to 30, 1979, featuring the following artists:

Lanfanco Baldi, Luciano Bartolini, Lapo Binazzi, Giuseppe Chiari, Fabrizio Corneli, Andrea Daninos, Andrea Granchi, Luciana Majoni, Mario Mariotti, Paolo Masi, Albert Mayr, Gianni Melotti, Alberto Moretti, Massimo Nannucci, Maurizio Nannucci, Gianni Pettena, Gianfranco Pintus, Marino Vismara.

The critics Carlo Bertocci, Fulvio Salvadori, and Pier Luigi Tazzi are also participating. The first and last of these have selected the works presented in Lund.

The exhibition consists of three parts:

Documentation of Zona’s activities from its founding in 1975 up to the present, in the form of postcards, books, catalogues, and photographs.

One work by each artist, where every piece is independently created and reflects the temporal shift from Zona to Lund.

Personal documentation sent by individual participants to accompany the exhibition.

“It is not easy to explain our intentions in a few words,” says Giuseppe Chiari.
“It is about believing or not believing in art as something ‘pure’, about believing or not believing in the primacy of certain forms of language. What matters, I think, is not to believe in the perfect — the only correct language. Perfection can mean a lack of movement. The perfect easily leads to the divine.
Life, on the other hand, is imprecise and continuous.”

Chiari therefore names his music Musica Madre (“Mother Music”) instead of Musica Padre (“Father Music”), as the mother — or woman — represents continuity of existence, transformation, and flexibility, whereas the father stands for fixed continuity, obedience, and what is already defined.

Another viewpoint shared by the exhibiting artists is that art is work, and that this means everything. “Work is art because it belongs to humanity,” says Alberto Moretti. When there is a loving relationship between the artist and their work, that work becomes art. Thought and action must follow one another, not be separated.

The constant striving to seek knowledge, to test reality, and not to stop at what is already known is essential. The diversity of opinions and forms of expression — photography, film, books, text, and much more — is of great importance to these artists.

The exhibition is open weekdays from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.