This exhibition will be the first historiographic survey dedicated to Kazuko Miyamoto by a European public institution. The exhibition will take place between the second and third floors of the historic Palazzo Donnaregina, tracing the different phases and numerous media through which the artist’s practice developed from the 1970s to the early 2000s.

Miyamoto’s exhibition, curated by Eva Fabbris, is an expression of a broad and transversal look at recent art history and the intention to shed light on stories that are still little known within it.

Since the early 1970s, Miyamoto has straddled two countries and two cultures, finding a very personal way of connecting their deepest essences, both contributing to and contradicting the modernist language. She was also an activist and promoter of exhibition contexts which were the first in New York that extended the boundaries of representation for both female and non-Western artists. The account of this aptitude finds immediate resonance today in the most pressing instances of art. Therefore, this exhibition accompanies Madre’s audiences in the acknowledgment of narrative and historiographical paradigms that integrate and broaden their view of art from our immediate past on the basis of a wholly contemporary sensibility.

In this perspective, Miyamoto ideally dialogues with the works of the museum’s permanent collection, particularly—given the friendly relationship and affinity of language between the two artists—with 10,000 Lines (2005) by Sol LeWitt (b. 1928, Hartford, 1928; d. 2007 New York).

More information on the event can be found here.