Arrigo Musti's ImPop Poetics: Venice Biennale, MoMA Projection, and Palermo Amnesty Exhibition
Arrigo Musti, a painter hailing from Palermo, transitioned from a legal profession at the age of twenty-eight to focus on art and human anatomy. He utilizes a technique known as ImPop, which combines shiny surfaces with unsettling themes. During the 61st Venice Biennale, Musti showcased his mixed-media triptych, Broken Bridges (2025), at the Grenada Pavilion from July 24 to July 26, 2026, including an artist talk on July 24. Additionally, on June 19, 2026, MoMA in New York presented Poliedrica (2024), created for Duca di Salaparuta S.p.A.'s bicentennial. In Palermo, his work Passepartout for Freedom will be featured at Palazzo Chiaramonte Steri for Amnesty International's 65th anniversary, running from May 27 to October 30, 2026.
Fatti principali
- Arrigo Musti, born in Palermo in 1969, left a legal career at twenty-eight for painting and human anatomy
- Musti calls his poetics ImPop, an acronym for impopolare
- Broken Bridges (2025) is a mixed-media triptych with cement and enamel on iron sheet, three panels of 50×50×6 cm
- The Grenada Pavilion presentation at the 61st Venice Biennale ran 24–26 July 2026 at Spazio Berlendis, Cannaregio
- Poliedrica (a Tribute to Topazia Alliata) (2024) measures 399×325×7 cm and belongs to Duca di Salaparuta S.p.A. (ILLVA Saronno group)
- Poliedrica was projected at the MoMA auditorium in New York on 19 June 2026 during a presentation of the Atlante dell'Arte Contemporanea n. 74
- The Amnesty International 65th anniversary exhibition at Palazzo Chiaramonte Steri, Palermo, runs 27 May to 30 October 2026
- Passepartout for Freedom carries the caption 'Protection of human rights as the only hygiene of the world', reversing Marinetti's 1909 futurist rhetoric
Entità
Artisti
- Arrigo Musti
- Topazia Alliata
- Dacia Maraini
- Fosco Maraini
- Eugène Delacroix
- Salvador Dalí
- Renato Guttuso
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
- Hesiod
- Flavio Lucchini
Istituzioni
- 61st Venice Biennale
- Grenada Pavilion
- MoMA
- Amnesty International
- Amnesty International Italy Foundation
- Duca di Salaparuta S.p.A.
- ILLVA Saronno
- Flavio Lucchini Art Museum
- Atlante dell'Arte Contemporanea
- Segnonline
- Palazzo Chiaramonte Steri
- Rivista Segno
- segnonline.it
Luoghi
- Palermo
- Italy
- Venice
- New York
- United States
- Cannaregio
- Spazio Berlendis
- Palazzo Chiaramonte Steri
- Sala delle Filippine
- Sala delle Armi
- Casteldaccia
- Sicily
- Milo