A look at a season of art in Italy chronologically between the penultimate decade of the 20th century and the start of the following one, rather close to our days but sufficiently mature to be considered with the right distance.

That's what "80 - 90" is. Naturally a non-exhaustive but, at least, indicative look at a generation that is outlined through the work of ten authors born between the eighties and nineties of the last century: Alfredo Aceto (Turin, 1991), Lupo Borgonovo (Milan, 1985), Benni Bosetto (Milan, 1987), Giulio Delvè (Naples, 1984), Alessandro Di Pietro (Messina, 1987), Andrea Kvas (Trieste, 1986), Nicola Martini (Pontedera, 1984), Namsal Siedlecki (Greenfield, 1986), Alessandro Vizzini (Cagliari, 1985) and Andrea Zucchini (Brescia, 1987), in fact, belong to a common historical and social phase that each of them interprets in their own way through different languages, techniques and contents.

The result is a decidedly articulated creative panorama where, apart from some common orientation (a certain attention to the relationship between the individual and new technologies, an analysis of the scientific laws that regulate the life of materials, a renewed interest in the human figure) heterogeneity prevails over a common vision of reality, in tune with the multiplicity of intentions that characterize the present time.