Non-Aligned Modernity: Marco Scotini's Curatorial Focus on Gorgona Group

Marco Scotini's curatorial work at FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea in Milan explores four intersecting directions: archival materials, Eastern European postwar art, political critique, and deconstruction of modernist stereotypes. The exhibition 'Non-Aligned Modernity' draws from Marinko Sudac's collection, focusing on the former Yugoslavia as a non-aligned country during the Cold War. A highlight is the Gorgona group (Zagreb, 1959–1966/68), known for its anti-magazine published from 1961 to 1966 in eleven issues and situational activities rather than formal artistic unity. The group maintained contacts with Western artists like Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, and Piero Dorazio, who held solo shows at Studio G. The exhibition features over 120 artists and 700 works, challenging the East-West dichotomy and redefining modernity as a geographically and politically situated concept.