BREATHLESS / LONDON ART NOW

The catalogue of the exhibition BREATHLESS/SENZA RESPIRO. London Art Now/Contemporary Art in London (19 October 2019–1 March 2020, Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice) is curated by Norman Rosenthal and Harry Woodlock, with Elisabetta Barisoni, with the support of the British Council.

Some of the most interesting young artists working in London reveal the contradictions of contemporary life and reflect on everyday life, full of excesses and neuroses, crises, family, loss, desire and generational suffering. A selection of works (for the most part never previously exhibited) represents environmental, social, political and economic tensions, so that the “the exhibition can and should be interpreted as a sign: the cry of pain, a primitive scream… But above all it is a comment on the resilience of a generation of young artists who, despite everything, continue to create extraordinary, challenging and beautiful art”.