Novecento

Novecento is the "new" modern art museum of Milan. It's down on the Piazza del Duomo, connected to the Palazzo Reale. Blake and I visited last Sunday in the late afternoon and early evening. The place is pretty huge. This piece below is one of the first we saw, part of a sort of mixed media introductory exhibit. Motor oil drowning a clay city.



I had always known the museum was there on the square because of this large neon sculpture you can see quite easily.



The main exhibit of permanent collection works is grouped by movement. There's a small international works grouping, but the whole thing is very Italian focused, with rooms dedicated to individual movements or even individual artists. The museum started at Futurism, and got up to 70's-ish in the timeline. The last room or so was Arte Povera.