After the Coronavirus emergency that had interrupted its progress, the exhibition THE REVOLUTION IS US. Contemporary Italian Collectibles , hosted by XNL Piacenza Contemporanea, reopens to the public.

On Saturday 26 September 2020, the rooms of the cultural centre entirely dedicated to contemporary art of the Piacenza and Vigevano Foundation and the Ricci Oddi Modern Art Gallery – whose premises are adjacent to those of XNL - will once again host, until 10 January 2021, over 150 works, including paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos and installations by authors such as Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana, Paul McCarthy, Sislej Xhafa, Sophie Calle, Joseph Kosuth, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Marina Abramović, Tomás Saraceno, Sol LeWitt, Andy Warhol, Bill Viola, Dan Flavin, from 18 art collections, among the most important in Italy , which transversally investigate movements, styles and trends of contemporaneity.

THE REVOLUTION IS US is curated by Alberto Fiz, organized by the Piacenza and Vigevano Foundation, with the patronage of MiBACT – Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, of the Emilia-Romagna Region, with an installation project by Michele De Lucchi and AMDL CIRCLE and the scientific consultancy of the Mantua Territorial Center of the Milan Polytechnic

For a Cattelan who goes, a Cattelan who arrives . Having welcomed the work La Rivoluzione siamo noi (returned to the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection in Turin), XNL Piacenza Contemporanea welcomes the photographic work entitled Cesena 47-AC Forniture Sud 12″ (2nd half) – Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Turin -, which reflects on the theme of hospitality and immigration through the image of the match on an enormous 11-seater table football table, organized by the Italian artist at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Bologna in 1991, played between a team made up of AC Cesena reserves and a representative team of Senegalese workers recruited from factories in north-eastern Italy, whose shirts bore an imaginary and unreal sponsor “Rauss”. There will also be a change for Michelangelo Pistoletto . Self-portrait with collector will be replaced by Kidnapping (Emilio and Luisa Marinoni Collection, Lurago Marinone, CO). In this work created in 1980, the viewer comes into contact with a figure seen from behind with a covered face and tied hands that seems to evoke the dramatic period of terrorism.

The exhibition itinerary is also enriched by three creations by Christo , as a tribute to the Bulgarian master, recently deceased, which have as a reference his famous interventions realized in Italy in the seventies. The first two, coming from the Consolandi Collection in Milan and the Alt Collection in Bergamo, concern the wrapping of the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele in Milan in 1970, the third, made available by the Gori-Fattoria di Celle Collection, is related to the wrapping of Porta Pinciana in Rome that took place in 1974.

The public will once again be able to immerse themselves in the reality of the phenomenon of Italian collecting in its entirety through events that cover a time span of over fifty years. What emerges is a large collective fresco, a 'collection of collections', as Alberto Fiz states, linked to the passion and taste of our time, which allows the visitor to enter an extraordinary private museum, full of surprises. The exhibition is accompanied by video interviews with collectors collected in a precious document created by Roberto Dassoni together with Eugenio Gazzola.

The Revolution is Us allows to reconcile both the spectacular component and the more intimate and emotional one, creating a relationship between the works, the artists and the motivations of collecting, as emerges from the eight sections – Complicity, Domestic Alterations, Reversing the World, Enigma, The Other Seen by Oneself, Controlling Chaos, Explorations, Monochrome Spaces – of the exhibition where each represents a collection in a context animated by interferences, suggestions and temporal disruptions.

COLLECTIONS: Agiverona Collection; Alt Collection, Bergamo; Consolandi Collection, Milan; De Iorio Collection, Trento; Ernesto Esposito Collection, Naples; Floridi Collection, Rome; Giuliani Collection, Rome; Gori-Fattoria di Celle Collection, Pistoia; La Gaia Collection, Busca; Emilio and Luisa Marinoni Collection, Lurago Marinone; Mattioli Rossi Collection; Mazzolini Collection, Bobbio; Nomas Foundation Collection, Rome; Claudio and Maria Grazia Palmigiano Collection, Milan; Pierluigi and Natalina Remotti Collection, Milan/Camogli; Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Turin; Giuliana and Tommaso Setari Collection, Paris/Brussels, Gemma De Angelis Testa Collection, Milan.