LA FINE DEL MONDO

 ANTONIO THEO PINI  “LA FINE DEL MONDO”   Year 2016   Silvana Editoriale   ISBN 9788836635191   This volume accompanies the group exhibition celebrating the reopening of the Pecci Museum in Prato. The end of the world – a title that evokes a just and provocative ambition – is the absolute uncertainty of a historical time in which ideal-types and categories that we thought had been historicised and definitively introjected show all the signs of the times, and it is also the triumph of the time of the Crisis – but only on condition that we remember that the etymon of the word ‘crisis’ refers to the concept of ‘choice’. Let us choose not to get wrapped up in the idealisation of the past and challenge the present time. Artists: Adel Abdessemed, Jananne Al-Ani, Darren Almond, Giovanna Amoroso & Istvan Zimmermann, Lower Palaeolithic Anonymous, Upper Palaeolithic Anonymous, Aristide Antonas, Riccardo Arena, Kader Attia, Francis Bacon, Babi Badalov, Faycal Baghriche, Francesco Bertelé, Rossella Biscotti, Björk, Umberto Boccioni, Kerstin Brätsch, Cai Guo-Qiang, Julius von Bismarck, & Julian Charrière, Ali Cherri, Analivia Cordeiro, Isabelle Cornaro, Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, Hanne Darboven, Pippo Delbono, Marcel Duchamp, Marlene Dumas, Jimmie Durham, Olafur Eliasson, Didier Fiuza Faustino, Federico Fellini, Lucio Fontana, Carlos Garaicoa, Adalberto Giazotto, Arash Hanaei, Camille Henrot, Thomas Hirschhorn, Joakim, Polina Kanis, Tadeusz Kantor, Tigran Khachatryan, Robert Kuœmirowski, Andrey Kuzkin, Volodymyr Kuznetsov, Suzanne Lacy, Ahmed Mater, Boris Mikhailov, NASA, Henrique Oliveira, Lydia Ourahmane, Pyotr Pavlensky, Gianni Pettena, Pablo Picasso, Agnieszka Polska, Pussy Riot / Taisiya Krugovykh, Qiu Zhijie, Józef Robakowski, Batoul S’Himi, Fari Shams, Santiago Sierra, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Luis Urculo, Emmanuel Van der Auwera, Ekaterina Vasilyeva & Hanna Zubkova, Andy Warhol, Ingrid Wildi Merino, Andrzej Wróblewski, Alik Yakubovich, David Zink Yi TU35 Young Artists Paolo Ciregia, Arbër Elezi, Roberto Fassone, Irene Lupi, Gabriele Mauro, Mona Mohagheghi, Maria Montesi, Antonio Theo Pini, Namsal Siedlecki, Virginia Zanetti.