The exhibition “Fifty years of creative joy. The long journey of 2RC. Graphic art 1962 -2013” will be inaugurated on Friday 21 June, at 11.30 at GAMC “Lorenzo Viani” in Viareggio.
The exhibition features 60 works created over 2RC’s five decades of activity, from when it was founded by Valter and Eleonora Rossi and their cousin Franco Cioppi in 1959, in Rome, to the present day.
The exhibition retraces the success of an Italian enterprise that, strongly determined to assert and support the indisputable value of graphic art, achieved international acclaim publishing work by world famous artists such as Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, Francis Bacon, Enzo Cucchi, Henry Moore and many others.
2RC has always distinguished itself by its efforts to share, teach and foster initiative in the field of graphic art, unfailingly ahead of their times and stimulating and involving an increasing number of artists to express themselves in this genre.
In this way, 2RC has contributed, over the last 50 years, to the development of new kinds of market (and therefore new forms of work), even contributing to the creation of ties with Asia, thanks to the collaboration with the Central Academy of Beijing.
The exhibition also marks the inauguration of the International Centre of Graphic Art 2RCGAMC where the Post-Graduate Master in Art Printing techniques, in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Art in Florence, will be run from 6 October 2013.
The artists involved are:
Afro, Pierre Alechinsky, Francis Bacon, Max Bill, Alberto Burri, Alexander Calder, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Eduardo Chillida, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Ji Dachun, Lucio Fontana, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, Nancy Graves, Zeng Hao, Jannis Kounellis, Giacomo Manzù, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Victor Pasmore, Beverly Pepper,Tan Ping, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Man Ray, Julian Schnabel, George Segal, Pierre Soulages, Graham Sutherland, Walasse Ting and Victor Vasarely, Liu Ye and Ding Yi.
In this way, the new Gallery opens its doors, thanks to the help of Senator Giovanni Pieraccini who made these works available and promoted the exhibition, as a didactic-productive cultural centre, exhibiting works of 2RC that can be visited by the public until 10 November.
HOURS
1 September – 30 June
Tuesday – Sunday
15.30 – 19.30
1 July – 31 August
Tuesday – Sunday
18.00 – 23.00
Details:
Info: tel. 0584-581118 / fax 0584-581119
e.mail: gamc@comune.viareggio.lu.it – www.gamc.it
The exhibition is curated by Alessandra Belluomini Pucci, director of the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art.
The International Centre of Graphic Art 2RCGAMC is funded by Arcus SpA, which supported the project, the only of its kind in Italy, and intended in particular for the younger generations.
The International Centre of Graphic Art 2RCGAMC also benefited from the support of the Nando Peretti Foundation who were among the first to believe in the experiences of the 2RC “Fondazione Laboratorio 2RC – Officina Contemporaneo” and funded the start up of the project in 2009.
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Il Centro Internazionale della Grafica d’Arte 2RCGAMC si realizza grazie al sostegno finanziario di Arcus SpA, la quale ha accolto favorevolmente il progetto, unico nel suo genere, nell’ambito del territorio nazionale e rivolto, in particolar modo, alle nuove generazioni.
Il Centro Internazionale della Grafica d’Arte 2RCGAMC si è avvalso del contributo della Fondazione Nando Peretti che per prima ha creduto nell’esperienza della 2RC “Fondazione Laboratorio 2RC – Officina Contemporaneo” e nel 2009 ha finanziato lo start up del progetto.
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