On July 24, the exhibition entitled "The M.A.C. period. Concrete art, art synthesis, visual problems" will be inaugurated in Credito Valtellinese Gallery, in Palazzo Sertoli, at 18h.00. Martina Corgnati will attend to the exhibition, mounted and sponsored by Credito Valtellinese, in association with Sondrio Culture Council Office. It is the second exhibition of a cycle dedicated to the artistic culture, the avant-garde movements and tendencies that developed in Milan between 1940 and 1950. The first exhibition, entitled "Real, concrete, abstract. From the post-Cubism to the late Naturalism", opened from February to April, has been considerably successful. It met with the favour of the critics and approximately 3,000 people visited it.

Next events:

• February 1998 Nuclear Movement
• September 1998 Space Movement
• February 1999 Existential Realism

Nevertheless, the exhibition mainly focuses on activities that developed in Milan between 1940 and 1950 and that were linked to the M.A.C. The promoters were artists from Milan but also numerous artists from elsewhere, because, since Milan was the centre of the M.A.C., it represented a pole of attraction. External collaborators, who maintain different cultural positions, have not been taken into account, even if they made essential contributions to the group. Moreover, because of the Movement enormous extent, the exhibition does not document marginal or sporadic contributions made after 1953. Since then, numerous artists have not made essential contributions to the Movement, nor their style has been considerably changed after approaching the M.A.C. The exhibition rather shows works by artists who incisively contributed to the M.A.C. or, even if they never joined the group, represented a model for it. There is, as an example, a work by Max Bill, who was the charismatic leader of the international concrete art. Another artist, Mario Ballocco, instead, was close to the M.A.C. but never officially joined the group. The exhibition pays particular attention to Ballocco's publishing activity (he published the magazines AZ and "Colore", whose issues are entirely shown), artistic activity (he founded the group "Origine") and cultural activity (in 1952, he mounted the First Exhibition of Industrial Aesthetics and, in 1958, the First Colour Exhibition). Since the early '50s, Ballocco, starting from the Gestalt assumptions, had systematically studied colour. His studies led him to lay the foundations of a new discipline: the discipline of colours.

The exhibition includes works by: Max Bill, Mario Ballocco, Gianni Bertini, Lanfranco Bombelli Tiravanti, Enrico Bordoni, Angelo Bozzola, Fernando Chevrier, Nino Di Salvatore, Gillo Dorfles, Augusto Garau, Proferio Grossi, Max Huber, Attilio Mariani, Galliano Mazzon, Gianni Monnet, Bruno Munari, Mario Nigro, Ideo Pantaleoni, Carlo Perogalli, Mario Radice, Mauro Reggiani, Regina, Manlio Rho, Atanasio Soldati, Tito Varisco, Luigi Veronesi, Vittoriano Vigaṇ. Mauro Reggiani, "Composizione a ventaglio", 1955, oil on canvas, cm 130x195

A catalogue with the reproduction of the exhibits, a note by Martina Corgnati, critical documents and bibliographical references integrates the exhibition. The exhibition, hosted in Palazzo Sertoli, in the Museo Valtellinese di Storia e Arte and in Palazzo Pretorio, goes through Sondrio historical centre. Free admittance