Filippo Panseca's 50-Year Digital Art Retrospective at ADI Design Museum

The ADI Design Museum in Milan hosts 'Filippo Panseca. Forme a futura memoria', a retrospective curated by Achille Bonito Oliva and Valentino Catricalà, spanning over 50 years of the pioneering Italian digital artist's career. Panseca, founder of the first Computer Art chair at Accademia di Brera, is known for his nomadic and eclectic style, moving across painting, sculpture, design, and architecture. The exhibition features works from his kinetic phase in the 1960s, biodegradable art from the late 1960s onward (including unrealized projects for spheres in Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum), and digital innovations like the SWART Art o Mat vending machine (1986-1990) that allowed viewers to purchase digital prints. Ecological themes are highlighted through works like the Albionic bionic tree (2017) and Artificial bionic moon (2019), a 12-meter helium-filled photocatalytic sphere displayed in Venice. The show includes preparatory drawings and documents that illuminate his creative process, as well as his participation in Venice Biennales, Milan Triennales, and Rome Quadriennale. ADI president Luciano Galimberti emphasized Panseca's early attention to climate issues.