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Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna presents exhibition by one of the fathers of Institutional Critique

BOLOGNA.- From 26 January to 6 May 2012 the MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna presents Marcel Broodthaers. L’espace de l’écriture, the first complete retrospective in Italy devoted to the Belgian artist, curated by Gloria Moure. Marcel Broodthaers is one of the most revolutionary and influential figures in the art of the 20th century, and is still indispensable today if we are to understand the development of the artistic and theoretical research of recent decades. His constructive and ironic criticism of the art system as a specific ideological system and the political role of the artist in society has posed questions that are increasingly central in the international critical debate, revealing the forceful topicality of his experimentations intended to explore and redefine the meaning of artistic creation. Since 1976, the year