![]() ![]() The same applies to the extraordinary artwork/investigation entitled Il desiderio dell’oggetto / The desire of the object (1973) a sort of ongoing institutional critique and disciplinary criticism. In the same way elementary devices as in Il Commutatore / The commutator (1970) or the bench in Decodificazione dell’ambiente / Decoding the environment (1975)-also part of this exhibition-suspend that which has already been established, identified or habitual so as to promote an event. It means influencing the way both society and the urban environment have been conceived in the modern era it also means compromise for the very categories of art.Ĭycles of work, for the most part photographs and texts, such as Itinerari preferenziali / Preferred itineraries (1969), Recupero e reinvenzione / Recovery and Reinvention (1969/76) or Ad ognuno la propria realtà / To each one his own reality (1972/74) and Viaggio sul Reno / A trip on the river Rhine (1974)-all part of the current exhibition-which refuse abstraction and reclaim territory that had earlier been marginalized in favour of anonymous creativity and hitherto unexplored spaces. It is both a working method and a philosophy in the true sense: replacing the exclusive character of a project with molecular and multiple expressive forces, likewise replacing transformation processes with gradual concatenations or forms of modulation. ![]() Those were the years of radical architecture and the constellation of the Global Tools group, but rather than defining a period, the expression “degrees of freedom” signifies a radical response to modernist utopia and ultimately to great collective subjects. The title The Degrees of Freedom harkens back to one of Ugo La Pietra’s most successful slogans, and refers to some of the cycles of his research between 19 which were decidedly conceptual in character. The exhibition is accompanied by a critical essay by Marco Scotini. The exhibition brings together a series of works the artist created during the 70s-one of La Pietra’s most innovative and productive decades-which are now attracting renewed interest both among the public at large and in the art world. The Laura Bulian Gallery is pleased to announce the forthcoming exhibition The Degrees of Freedom by Ugo La Pietra, the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery as its inaugural show of the new season in Milan. ![]()
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