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Galleria Mucciaccia presents the solo exhibition of Gianni Piacentino with over thirty works on display from 1966 to the present day. Following his recent shows at Center d’Art Contemporain in Geneva (2013) and Prada Foundation in Milan (2015-2016). The exhibition is an unique opportunity to discover the artist, one of the most interesting and unique figures on the international art scene at the moment. The exhibition, open to the public until January 15, 2018, tracks Piacentino’s career not in a strictly chronological order, but according to the point of view of the artist himself, choosing to display together past and recent works to emphasise elements of continuity in his work, but also to underline specific moments and periods. Galleria Mucciaccia, presents his most recent METALLIC works which are shown for the first time to the public in this occasion. Piacentino revisits in shapes, sizes and colours the monochrome of 1965 in metallic industrial colours, and TRANS-CHROME of the years 1966-67. The artist changes the colours through a special technique, with a transparent chrome finish that creates brand new iridescent brightness. These works show a sort of temporal shortcircuit between classicism and contemporaneity defined by Piacentino as “self-manierism”. He works on colour as a concrete matter, incorporating his characteristic highly technological treatments and processes directly inspired by aesthetics and industrial processing. The result is an unusual virtuosity brightness, echoing the great masters of the past, the golden funds of Byzantine icons, the soft velvet of Titian, the reflections of the famous Vermeer pearl earring, which Piacentino reproduces in contemporary terms in the anonymous language of his works. Among the works of the 1960s on display, the YELLOW-OCHRE FENCE OBJECT (1967-68), which was exhibited in the important exhibition “Arte povera” held at the Galleria De ‘Foscherari of Bologna in 1968.--Gallery website.