The Ragghianti Foundation proposes two contemporary exhibitions that intend to investigate the period of great ferment in Italian art of the sixties, seventies and eighties of the twentieth century , rediscovering the figures of Cioni Carpi and Gianni Melotti , multifaceted artists very active respectively in Milan and Florence.

The first exhibition , curated by Angela Madesani, is dedicated to the experiments of Cioni Carpi, stage name of Eugenio Carpi de 'Resmini (Milan, 1923-2011), a complex and multifaceted character. Son of Aldo Carpi, painter and historical director of the Brera Academy, brother of Fiorenzo, a well-known musician, and of Pinin, writer and illustrator for children, Cioni began to devote himself to painting in the 1950s in Paris; from here he moved to Haiti, then to New York and then to Canada, where he lived until the mid-sixties, when he returned permanently to Milan.

In the United States he meets Maya Deren, an American director of Ukrainian origin, who pushes him towards film experimentation, an area in which Cioni Carpi will excel. From 1959 to 1980 he made numerous artist films, currently housed in important archives, including that of the MoMA in New York. For Carpi, cinema, as painting had been before, is a field of experimentation. Another is the theater. His is the first set consisting of a film for Peter Weiss' investigation at the Piccolo in Milan in 1966, shot in the concentration camp where his brother Paolo was killed. Carpi, between the end of the sixties and the seventies, also collaborated with some composers, including Angelo Paccagnini, Giacomo Manzoni and Bruno Maderna, for whom, on the occasion of the staging of their works, he made films and projections.