YOUNG ITALIANS
Cold Spring (New York): Magazzino Italian Art, 2018
This book, edited by Ilaria Bernardi, was published on the occasion of the exhibition Young Italians at the Italian Cultural Institute New York City in 2018. It attempts to analyze the common denominators of recent Italian art, the origins and the reasons for the difficulty young Italian artists have in establishing themselves on the international art scene.
The group show was conceived as a 50th anniversary tribute to the show of the same name, curated by Alan Solomon, which took place at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Jewish Museum in New York in 1968, featuring the work of twelve young Italian artists from that time, under the age of 40. Similarly, this sort of new edition of the historical exhibition features twelve Italian artists, under the age of 40, all of whom were either born, grew up in or currently work in Italy.