Pablo Echaurren exhibition “Arte-Azione” opens at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò NYU

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University inaugurates its forthcoming show, Arte-Azione: Pablo Echaurren and Italian Counterculture in the 1970s, with a guided tour by curator Ara H. Merjian. Showing through October 24, the show dives into one of Italy’s most turbulent decades.

The exhibition, curated by Merjian and Jacopo Galimberti, traces how Echaurren, defined by his creativity and activism, helped define the 1977 counterculture. His comics, collages, and caricatures blurred high and low culture, borrowing ideas from Futurism and Dadaism to fuel protest movements for women’s rights, LGBT communities, and student activism.

A chronicler as much as a creator, Echaurren has written extensively on the period and now directs the Echaurren-Salaris Foundation in Rome with art historian Claudia Salaris.

Source: La Voce di New York, Anna Capelli. 

Adapted by: Kate Netzer