“ Fluxus, art for everyone. Italian editions from the Luigi Bonotto collection ” curated by Patrizio Peterlini and Martina Corgnati is the exhibition which, in collaboration with the Bonotto Foundation, opens in the Spazio degli Archivi on the fourth floor from 25 November 2022 to 16 April 2023. For the first time it is analyzed through publications, works and documents the key role of Italy in Fluxus, sixty years after the "FLuXuS Internationale FesTsPiELe NEUEsTER MUSiK" Festival in Wiesbaden in September 1962.

Born between the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s thanks to the artist, architect and cultural organizer George Maciunas, Fluxus developed above all in the United States, Europe and Japan, and was at the center of an aesthetic and social revolution which aims to weave visual and performing arts, experimental music and theater also giving life to festivals, happenings and concerts with the desire to eliminate the division in the arts and, in general, that between existence and artistic creation.

Italy also participates to an important extent in the diffusion of Fluxus, in particular with significant experiences in the production of "editions": objects, graphic folders, artist's books in various copies. These works are created by patrons and cultural operators together with the protagonists of the movement, such as Eric Andersen, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, Giuseppe Chiari, Philip Corner, Geoffrey Hendricks, Allan Kaprow, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Ben Patterson, Dieter Roth, Wolf Vostell, Bob Watts and many others .

The making of editions plays an essential role in the systematic dissemination of the movement, a strategic choice which identifies the strengths of low production costs, ease of distribution (even by mail) and accessibility to the general public thanks to low prices. Features that fully respond to the idea of democratization of art pursued by Fluxus. It is in fact in the second manifesto of 1963 that Maciunas speaks of a "Revolutionary Flood" that makes art accessible and understandable to all, with a direct attack and without mediation on the market system. The idea of flooding is embodied in the small editions that characterize the Fluxus production: a myriad of small objects which, like water, can reach anywhere bringing with them the new aesthetic vision of the world.