Part of:

• Fonds: Gianni Pettena fonds, 1960-2019
•    Series: Exhibitions, circa 1980--2019

People:

• Gianni Pettena (archive creator)

Title:

Exhibitions

Date:

circa 1980--2019

Level of archival description:
Series

Extent and medium:

• 226 782 digital files (99 GB)
  1.21 l.m. of textual records
  891 photographic material
  447 drawings
  7 moving images
  1 model

Scope and content:

The series documents Pettena’s activities as a curator and exhibition designer from 1980 to 2004 and includes materials for most of the related publications. The material in this series relates to fifteen out of the over twenty-five exhibitions designed by Pettena, which were presented in various galleries in Italy. Pettena’s exhibitions include installations on contemporary architecture, such as an exhibition on avant-garde architects from London, exhibitions on Hans Hollein, on Richard Meier, on Ettore Sottsass and on Ettore Sottsass Jr. He also designed many exhibitions on architects of the Radical movement and the evolution of their work from the beginning of the movement to more recent years. The series also contains material for Pettena’s work on exhibitions on contemporary landscape architecture and the evolution of urban parks. Also included are a few documents related to exhibitions on Pettena’s work, either group exhibitions or solo ones, and curated by others.



The series contains research materials, such as publications and reference photographs, correspondence related to exhibition planning and the accompanying publications, exhibition proposals, and some installation designs and concept development notes. The series also contains draft texts, and documents related to the image selection process for the exhibition catalogues. Finally, the series contains installation views, photographs of exhibition openings and some draft exhibition and publication texts for exhibitions on Pettena’s work but that were not curated by him.

Reference number:

AP207.S2

Arrangement:
Records for each exhibition curated or designed by Pettena are arranged in their own sub-series (AP207.S2.SS01 to AP207.S2.SS16) in chronological order by exhibition date. The last sub-series (AP207.S2.SS17) documents exhibitions presenting Pettena’s work that weren’t curated by him. There is not sub-series AP207.S2.SS04.

Credit line:
Gianni Pettena fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Gianni Pettena/
Gift of Gianni Pettena

Language of material:

• English
• Italian

Contains:

• AP207.S2.SS01, Il Ritorno Dei Re (1980), circa 1980
• AP207.S2.SS02, Architettura corretta londinese (1981), 1981, 2013 - 2016
• AP207.S2.SS03, Richard Meier (1981), circa 1981
• AP207.S2.SS05, Il polo espositivo: un tema, due architetti. Arata Isozaki, O.M. Ungers (1988), circa 1988
• AP207.S2.SS06, Hans Hollein. Opere 1960-1988 (1988), 1988-2005
• AP207.S2.SS07, Ettore Sottsass sr. Architetto (1991), 1980-1996
• AP207.S2.SS08, Casa Malaparte, 1992-2018
• AP207.S2.SS09, Radicals. Architettura e Design 1960-1975 (1992), 1992-2010
• AP207.S2.SS10, Olmsted: L'origine del parco urbano e del parco naturale contemporaneo (1996), 1991-1996
• AP207.S2.SS11, Niki de Saint Phalle. Il Giardino Dei Taocchi (1997), circa 1997
• AP207.S2.SS12, Giardini Parchi Paesaggi. L’avventura delle idee in Toscana dall’Ottocento a oggi (1998), circa 1998
• AP207.S2.SS13, Archipelago. Architettura sperimentale 1959-1999 (1999), 1990-2013
• AP207.S2.SS14, Exhibition on James Wines at the Venice Biennale (2000), 1999-2000
• AP207.S2.SS15, Unidentified exhibition on Radical architecture (2003-2004), 2003-2004
• AP207.S2.SS16, Radical Design. Ricerca e progetto dagli anni ’60 a oggi (2004), 2001-2018
• AP207.S2.SS17, Exhibitions on Pettena's works, 1983-2019