ZONAORIGINALS / DOCUMENTS / INFORMATION /BOOKS / FILMS / AUDIOWORKS/05-30.04.1979non profit art space florence / italy

ZONA—the non-commercial art meeting place in Florence, Italy—visits Galerie S:t Petri from 5–30 April 1979 with a comprehensive exhibition featuring the following artists:
LANFRANCO 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 also take part. The first and the last of these have selected the material presented in Lund.

The exhibition otherwise consists of three parts: documentation of Zona’s activities from their start in 1975 up to the present in the form of postcards, books, catalogues and photographs; a “one work / one artist” section in which each work is independently created and describes the temporal relocation of Zona to Lund; and personal documentation that certain individual participants have sent to the exhibition.

“It is not easy to explain the aims of our activities in a few words,” says Giuseppe Chiari. “It is a matter of believing or not believing in an art that is ‘impure,’ of believing or not believing in the existence of special languages.” He considers it important not to believe only in the perfect—the single correct language. Perfection can mean a lack of mobility; the perfect easily leads to the divine. “Life is like this—it is imprecise and continuous.” Chiari therefore calls his music Musica Madre (mother music) instead of Musica Padre (father music), since it is the mother/woman who represents discontinuity in existence, transformation and flexibility, while the father stands for continuity, obedience and what has already been fixed.

Another viewpoint among the exhibitors is that art has a very broad meaning—it really includes everything. “Work is art insofar as it belongs to the human being,” says Alberto Moretti. When there is a loving relationship between a person and their work, that work becomes art. Thought and action should go together, not—as so often—be separated in the work. The constant wish to seek knowledge, to test one’s ideas against reality, not to settle but always be ready to reshape one’s opinions and forms of expression, is important for these exhibitors, who express themselves through various media such as photography, film, books, text, and more.

The exhibition is open on weekdays 15:00–20:00, Saturdays and Sundays 13:00–17:00.