Emilio Prini Typewriter Drawings. Bologna/München/Roma – 1970/1971

Emilio Prini

Typewriter Drawings. Bologna/München/Roma – 1970/1971

Curated by Luca Lo Pinto, Timotea Prini, Andrea Viliani

Opening 28.09.2024 at 11.00 AM

On 28 September 2024, at 11 AM opens at the Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare in Bolzano, the exhibition Emilio Prini – Typewriter Drawings. Bologna/München/Rome – 1970/1971, dedicated to Emilio Prini (1942–2016), one of the most radical and enigmatic figures of the Italian and international art scene.

The exhibition – curated by Luca Lo Pinto and Andrea Viliani with Timotea Prini and organised in collaboration with the Archivio Emilio Prini – presents a wide selection of works on paper, with a focus on those connected to the seminal exhibitions Gennaio ‘70 – comportamenti, progetti, mediazioni (January 1970 – Behaviours, Projects, Mediations, Civic Archeology Museum, Bologna, 31 January – 28 February 1970), Arte Povera – 13 Italian Artists (Kunstverein München, 26 May – 27 June 1971) and Merce Tipo Standard (L’Attico Gallery, Rome, 20 November 1971).

Between 1970 and 1975 – and thus also following the seminal projects analysed in the exhibition – Prini produced almost two hundred drawings on paper on ‘standard’ format sheets with the aid of an Olivetti 22 typewriter. The artist used the ordinary typewriter almost as if it were a pencil, to draw, elaborate mathematical formulas, imagine two-dimensional architectures, invent nursery rhymes, record intuitions… verify ideas.

The exhibition Typewriter Drawings. Bologna/München/Rome – 1970/1971 brings together the drawings made around the concepts developed in the three exhibitions in Bologna, Munich and Rome, integrated with a selection of mostly unpublished documentary photographs.

The project also constitutes the start of an ongoing research and cataloguing project by the Emilio Prini Archive.

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Main sponsors: Autonomous Province South Tyrol and Volksbank.
With the support of City of Bolzano-Bozen.
Thanks to Baustudio35, Facchini Verdi and Tecnoimpianti Obrelli.
Technical sponsor: Kellerei Bozen-Cantina Bolzano.