Nuove "possibilità di relazione": l'Informale oltre l'Informale

The exhibition Possibilità di relazione, organized by curators Enrico Crispolti, Roberto Sanesi and Emilio Tadini at Galleria L’Attico in Rome in May 1960, is a valuable document of the cultural turmoil in Italy in the late Fifties and Early Sixties. On that occasion, important questions are raised, also on a theoretical level, by the curators and some of the artists who published their point of view in the catalogue: first of all, the specific characters of New Figuration painting and its relationship with the language of Informale, which is not entirely rejected, but rather brought up to date with the new need for communication artists are now feeling as inescapable. While erasing the gap with the most progressive statements of international art, the exhibit suggests a new interpretation of the very act of art-making, and goes past the Informale not by denying it, but by giving it better “possibilities of relationship”.