Sixty years after the historic exhibition Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors, held in 1966 at the Jewish Museum in New York, the Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation presents a new project curated by Eva Brioschi, aimed at celebrating and historically reconsidering the legacy of Minimalism and its influence on contemporary art through a selection of works from the Collection.

The 1966 exhibition, curated by Kynaston McShine, consecrated artists including Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, and Sol LeWitt, introducing a new concept of sculpture based on formal reduction, seriality, and objectivity. Primary Structures / Multiple Systems examines how this geometric alphabet was absorbed, transformed, and ultimately “compromised” by subsequent generations of artists, becoming a tool for deciphering the complex systems of contemporary reality.

The exhibition unfolds across several spaces of the Foundation, from the ground floor to the Black Box and up to the first floor, following a path that highlights a dualism between public and private dimensions. Bringing together international artists including Andrea Fraser, Fabio Mauri, Mario Garcia Torres, James Turrell, and Nairy Baghramian, the project expands the boundaries of minimalist language through practices that interrogate institutions, memory, identity, ecology, and systems of power, weaving together light, space, time, and social critique.

Primary Structures / Multiple Systems underscores how the essential forms of the past have become tools for interpreting the complexity of the present and conducting layered analyses, inviting visitors to engage with the systems and invisible infrastructures that shape our contemporary condition.