Nanni Balestrini's Periscope Collages at MAAB Gallery Milan
At MAAB Gallery in Milan, 21 collages by Nanni Balestrini are on display under the series title Periscope. The works, blending art and literature, are made from clippings of Pariscope, a Parisian events magazine that closed in October 2016. Balestrini's cut-and-paste technique transforms the magazine's microcosm into an allegorical, cinematic, pre-hypertextual macro-world, where words, numbers, and images form a paradoxical media-poetic chaos. The exhibition is held in a luminous white box with a barrel vault ceiling. Balestrini was born in Milan in 1935 and currently lives between Rome and Paris.
Key facts
- 21 collages by Nanni Balestrini are exhibited at MAAB Gallery in Milan.
- The series is titled Periscope, a wordplay on Pariscope.
- Pariscope was a Parisian events magazine that closed in October 2016.
- Balestrini was born in Milan in 1935 and lives in Rome and Paris.
- The works are described as between art and literature.
- The gallery space is a white box with a barrel vault ceiling.
- Collage and montage presuppose fragmentation of reality, according to Peter Bürger.
- The exhibition is reviewed by Margherita Zanoletti.
Entities
Artists
- Nanni Balestrini
Institutions
- MAAB Gallery
- Artribune
Locations
- Milan
- Italy
- Rome
- Paris
- France