Vertigo “A century of Multimedia art from Futurism to the web”

MAMbo – The Modern Art Museum of Bologna, open on 5 May 2007 with the Vertigo exhibition: the century of off-media art from Futurism to the web, curated by Germano Celant with the collaboration of Gianfranco Maraniello. The exhibition aims to document the overlapping and contaminations that have occurred since the beginnings of historic avant-garde movements (from Futurism to Suprematism, Constructivism, Dadaism, Neoplasticism and Surrealism) in order to highlight the fall of the artistic “specific” – painting and sculpture – in favour of an interweaving of multi-media. The show includes more than four hundred works including artist books, films, installations, paintings and photographs presenting the artistic personalities and the movements that have marked the fundamental stages of the appropriation of new media for artistic ends