Prima Materia

The contemporary art exhibition Prima Materia, curated by Caroline Bourgeois and Michael Govan, opened to the public on May 30, 2013, at Punta della Dogana.
The exhibition brings together approximately 80 works, created between the 1960s and today, by artists from the Pinault Collection.
 
Prima Materia suggests a dialogue between important artistic movements of the 1960s – such as the Mono Ha in Japan and Arte Povera in Italy – and works by younger artists. The exhibition also includes a selection of installations commissioned expressly for the spaces of Punta della Dogana.
 
The works on display highlight this “prima materia” – primary matter – that brings together all the answers to the universal questions man has to face: space, time, the others, life, death, suffering, the environment…
 
With Prima Materia Punta della Dogana inaugurates a new cycle of special projects for the “Cube”, the central space of the building and its symbolic heart. Each year, an artist is invited to conceive a project specifically for this space. For the first edition of the program, Punta della Dogana has welcomed the Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi.
 
On the occasion of the exhibition Prima Materia, the museum offers guided tours and workshops in Italian, French and English to enable everyone to discover major contemporary artists from around the world.

(Image: Sherrie Levine, Crystal Skull, 2010. Cast glass with glass vitrines © Sherrie Levine. Installation view at Punta della Dogana, 2013. Ph: © Palazzo Grassi, ORCH orsenigo_chemollo)

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