Curated by Tobia Bezzola

From 23 September 2018 to 6 January 2019, Spazio -1. Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati host the exhibition How Evil Is Pop Art? New European Realism 1959-1966, curated by Tobia Bezzola. Re-examining the European Pop phenomenon in a new context through a selection of sophisticated works, thanks to the encounter between two private collections. With 42 works created between 1959 and 1966, the exhibition offers a surprising view of the artistic languages that, notwithstanding similarities and differences, were simultaneously formed in France, Great Britain, Italy, and Germany. Paintings and sculptures that represent the best of European Pop Art show how a new artistic sensitivity was articulated in these countries, one that, in the richness of the formal language and the breadth of the contents