missing planet : visions and re-visions of Soviet times

The Missing Planet – Visions and Revisions of the Soviet Era traces the history of Soviet and post-Soviet art from 1970 to the present through the essays of thirty authors and the works of more than fifty artists. In the exhibition, curated by Marco Scotini and Stefano Pezzato, works from the collection of the Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato have been put in dialogue with loans from Italian and international collections, to compose a complete “galaxy” of the main strands of artistic research developed in the former Soviet republics, from Russia to the Baltic, from the Caucasus to the most remote provinces of central Asia.

In a cosmos in which the stars of Capitalism can move in absolute freedom, each following its own orbit without any friction, it is more necessary than ever to reflect on that red planet that for years has been able to stimulate the fantasies of generations of artists, thinkers, investigators of a space-time that now seems to have disappeared, swallowed by the black hole of History, but whose evocation could still inspire new revolutions. (bron: website uitgever NERO editions)