Culture, exhibitions, and art / April 24, 2026 · Trento
From 24 April to 6 September 2026, the exhibition "Anachronisms and dyschronies. Italian art from the eighties to today".
The exhibition tells how, in the last fortyyears, a significant part of Italian art has chosen to work apparently "against its own time", establishing an irregular, intermittent or deliberately anachronistic relationship with history.
After the conceptual season, between the late seventies and the early eighties the Transavant-garde brought painting and figuration back to the centre. Artists such as Chia, Cucchi, Clemente and Paladino reintroduce narration, myth, the archaic: not as nostalgia, but as reactivation of an iconographic repertoire sedimented in Italian cultural memory. This turn is followed by the experience of the Anachronists, who face the past with an even sharper approach: a return to form, classical composition and a painting that seems to belong to another era.
Since then many artists have developed forms of misaligned temporality. In the era of the digital and the hyper-present, this suspension has become a widespread condition: works that do not fully belong to yesterday or today are placed in an intermediate territory, in which the iconographic memory is continuously reassembled, interrupted or slowed down.
