The Biennial of Protest

In collaboration with the Guido Molinari Foundation, we are looking back at 1968 in Italy. Like in France, it was a year of demands, protests, and social movements. Artists were no exception and, during this period, produced works that directly reflected the context in radical aesthetic forms. The current exhibition at the Guido Molinari Foundation explores this era through the eyes of artists Ulysse Comtois and Guido Molinari, who were featured at the time in the Canadian pavilion at the Venice Biennale. On the cinematic front, dissent was brewing at the Mostra, the famous festival on the Lido. Italian works from Pasolini, Bene, and Baldi capture this atmosphere.