Between the 50s and 60s, Europe was the central stage of an intense sound and aesthetic revolution. Alongside the musical experiments and the birth of many rock stars, an incredible visual production was developed alongside. This production was based on the search for something new, forbidden and provocative, overcoming ancient canons considered obsolete. It was also supporting a kind of visual art, in which the “aesthetic” and “beauty” began to take very different paths. Thus, while the Beatles composed their future milestones of rock, Francis Bacon associated the human dimension with the monstrosity, the atrocity and suffering his paintings.

The exhibition “From Bacon to the Beatles: new images in Europe in the years of rock”, to be held at the Museo della Permanente, offers a journey between sound and visual creation, featuring a fine selection of works to watch and listen with headphones; the best hits from the same period. The format of the exhibition is very interesting, and continues a curatorial a line that is increasingly having successful among visual arts: the association with music or sound and the infiltration of visual contemplation, have intention of providing a more sensory experience (as affirmed by the curator Chiara Gatti). In this manner, closely watching the event simultaneous sound and aesthetic revolution, it is possible to recognize the mutual influences the have and understand how the new way of looking at the composition influenced sound, and how the way of listening to music had an impact on how to see and process visual.

The exhibition also included Peter Blake and Richard Hamilton, as well as exponents of the Italian artistic movement “Arte Povera” as Alberto Giacometti, Mimmo Rotella Giuseppe Guerreschi and Mario Schifano, the American William Utermolhen, the German Horst Antes and the French Jean Dubuffet y Cesàr. The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Jim Morrison and Mick Jagger compose the “soundtrack”. Interestingly, the paintings (mostly large sizes) and the sculptures are lit as if it were musicians on a stage to reconstruct and evoke the atmosphere of that period that brought along profound social, political and economic changes, since the War of Vietnam to Woodstock.

The exhibition will take place at Museo della Permanente, located on Via Turati 34 until the 12^th of February. The entrance fee is 6 Euros, and the opening hours are from Tuesday to Friday, from 10 to 13hs and from 14hs30 until 18hs30, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 10 am to 18hs30 (closing day: Monday). More information at: http://www.lapermanente.it/eventi/bacon.aspx.

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