The exhibition Art&Facts, curated by Mariuccia Casadio, analyses the relation between art and news through the works of nine artists chosen as some of the most interesting examples of ‘creative quality of the contemporary’.

The showing works describe a narrative route in which the contemporary told in the journalistic political or news item, in the classified advertisements, but also through advertisement and television, is examined by various and partial, but extremely personal optics’. From the newspaper’s covers with Saddam Hussein’s face and The Gulf War’s images by Alighiero Boetti, to ArtClub 2000, to Adam Chodzko who plays with the complexity of interrelations between fiction and journalistic ‘truth’ in Transmitters (1993), seeking through classified ads on newspapers the characters of his works; from the advertising images, which even appear in a dream, of Current Issues video by Sylvie Fleury (1997) to US Navy by Vanessa Beecroft (1999); from Good Revolution (1992) and Good News, bad news by Richard Prince (1998), to Baby left in a Brooklyn trash (1990) in which Robert Gober presents one of the most dramatic cases of human poverty; from reportages of everyday life Kitchen after party (1993) and Operation Theatre (1994) by Wolfgang Tillmans to Eye embroide-read (2000) by Francesco Vezzoli, 30 embroideries carried out on purpose for the gallery, which is inspired by On Kawara’s Eye red eye.

Art&Facts at the end, because of the phonetics and conceptual own affinity with Artifacts, is a collecting of ‘manufactured versions (...) born out of serial and popularized materials’.