The exhibition Le Tribù dell’Arte (April 24-June 24 and July 5-October 7, 2001) was organized in collaboration with the Incontri Internazionali d’Arte at the Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva. Alongside the general coordination, entrusted to Gino Di Maggio, the coordination of the sections devoted to “Continuities and Developments” was assigned to curator and art historian Cecilia Casorati.
The concept of the exhibition was based on the identification of possible groupings in the art of the second half of the 20th century, characterized not by historiographical assumptions, but by a freer sharing of common ethics and procedures, placed in antithesis to the standardization typical of globalized capitalist society.
The archival collection donated to CRRI consists of projects, presentation texts, lists and notes of the curators who were entrusted with in-depth studies, and gives an account of the interdisciplinary and complex articulation of the exhibition project, which included historical works, new productions, events and performative actions that alternated in a spatial and temporal continuum with the aim of identifying the distinctive features of the main artistic “tribes” of the last fifty years: Lettrism, Situationism, Gutai and Mono-ha, Fluxus and Events, Happening, Actionism, Factory, Techne tribes. A video section, a program of film screenings, and a section devoted to “Historical Tribes” completed the exhibition.