We were thrilled to finally get to the Nanni Balestrini exhibit at the Center for Italian Modern Art in Manhattan this weekend. This exhibit – which, according to its curators is the first retrospective on Balestrini’s work in the U.S. – opened in February and closes on June 22nd.
We haven’t written much on Balestrini for this blog, just one post about La Violenza Illustrata last year, but hope to in the future. Balestrini has gotten some attention in the US radical left over the years because of his book We Want Everything, his novel about Italy’s hot autumn of 1969. But his collage work and other visual art has gotten very little attention here, and this exhibit helps to change that. A catalog from the exhibit is also available from the Center’s store, and is quite beautiful and a solid representation and contextualization, especially for those unable to make it to NYC in person before it closes.
Below we include some pictures we took from our visit.
New York Archives of Autonomist Marxism 