In Palermo, the Fondazione Merz\u00a0has unveiled its second site, ZACentrale, which aims to transform the city\u2019s ZAC (Zisa Arti Contemporanee) building into a contemporary art powerhouse.\u00a0\nZACentrale is sited within Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo\u2019s cultural district and hub for artistic experimentation. At the beginning of the 20th century...
Occupying a former factory building in Palermo, Sicily, Fondazione Merz’s second location opens with a radical group show ‘L’altro, lo stesso’Time, Love and the Workings of Anti-Love, 2007, Courtesy the artist; Galleria Giorgio Persano, Torino; Fondazione Merz, Front: Mario Merz, In Palermo, the Fondazione Merz has unveiled its second site, ZACentrale, which aims to transform the city’s ZAC building into a contemporary art powerhouse.
ZACentrale is sited within Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo’s cultural district and hub for artistic experimentation. At the beginning of the 20th century, the area was home to one of Europe’s leading industrial producers of furniture. The Second World War prompted a gradual decline in factory output before production ceased altogether in 1968.
– will operate ZACentrale from the 1,560 sq m ZAC building for a minimum of three years, turning it into a new cultural hub. . Its original Turin site is a former heating plant for the Lancia car factory and a quintessential example of the city’s 1930s industrial architecture. Group show ‘L’altro, lo stesso’ is part exhibition, part ecosystem, treated not as individual works, but as a living, breathing whole.
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