Meeting with Lea Vergine – Collateral event of the Vito Acconci exhibition
25.09.2010 from 0:00 to 0:00
Curator: Marcella Beccaria
On the occasion of the imminent closure of the exhibition dedicated to Vito Acconci, one of the most significant experimenters in expressive languages and pioneer in the use of the body as a tool with which to effect artistic investigation, the Castello di Rivoli is organising a meeting with Lea Vergine. Curator of the meeting is Marcella Beccaria, who offers a historic overview of Acconci’s work and the birth of Body Art, a trend that revolutionised the language of art in the 1970s, and whose influence has extended down to the most recent expressive forms. A curator of important exhibitions and author of numerous publications, Lea Vergine has been one of the first to write about Body Art in Italy, publishing her well-known essay, Il corpo come linguaggio (The body as language) in 1974.