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On the occasion of tutto è connesso, Castello di Rivoli’s third floor will be the site of an exhibition dedicated to Vito Acconci, one of the most important artists experimenting with expressive languages, from poetry to video, Body Art and, recently,architecture-art.
The artist was born in the Bronx, New York in 1940, and after an initial interest in literature and experimental poetry, in the late ‘Sixties began to focus his research on direct confrontation with the public.
His performances from the late ‘Sixties, centered on his own body, are characterized by a strong physical and psychological impact that is sometimes disturbing and focus on a more self-analytical phase and the relationship between public and performer.
Around the mid-‘Seventies his works become outright installations where the gallery or museum setting is comparable to an urban square. It is specifically beginning with these installations that Acconci shifts the concept of art from the object to an interaction between artist and visitor.