This is an exploration of the 1970s through a unique and generous word list comprising 254 entries. The decade is analysed using key words (travel, body, conflict, march, performance…) and emblematic figures (Moro, Pasolini). In this way the cross over of different expressive mediums is probed, showing the 1970s through film and literature, design and music, the figurative arts and cartoons, theatre and fashion, media, politics, technology, communications and sport.In contrast to other periods in recent history that have now been metabolised into the collective imagination, the 1970s continue to arouse passions, controversy and debate. It was a decade marked by violence and abuse of power, the birth of the show business society and of the “romance of education” by those who constitute the ruling class today. It was therefore a long decade, in terms of its deep roots, formed in the latter part of the 1960s, and for the shadows that in the 1980s were cast and projected onto the new millennium.

The exhibition also traces the 1970s through a look at interesting installations which involved the participation of scholars, experts, artists and university professors, including Francesca Alfano Miglietti, Silvana Annicchiarico, Francesco Arena, Giancarlo Basili, Luca Beatrice, Marco Belpoliti, Elisabetta Benassi, Chiara Dynys, Gian Piero Brunetta, Elio Fiorucci, Fulvio Irace with Alessandro Mendini and Franco Purini, Elena Marco, Filippo Mazzarella, Peppino Ortoleva, Mauro Panzeri, Luigi Pedrazzi, Stefano Pistolini, Oliviero Ponte di Pino, Italo Rota, Massimo Rota, Fabrizio Vagliasindi.

Milan, Triennial
27 October 2007 - 30 March 2008