A selection of important historic works by Arman, from the 1960s to the 1970s, reveals how the development of one of the most significant artists, not just of Nouveau Réalismebut of all the 20^thcentury, touched on everyday life and gave it a form through assemblage, the accumulation of fragments, or deconstruction in order to give viewers a new critical sense of things and the world.

This show juxtaposes and relates together the cement and Corten steel sculptures by Mauro Staccioli (Volterra 1937-Milan 2018) with images on canvas, paper, and panel by Marco Tirelli (Rome 1956). The two artists have developed a family of forms that, in the case of Staccioli’s sculpture, is turned outwards in a close dialogue with the natural or urban environment, while in the case of Tirelli’s elusive painting it seems to be addressed to the interiority of conscience and the space for meditation.

The MAAB Gallery is pleased to present NUN, a solo show by the French artist Vincent Beaurin (1960; he lives and works in Paris). 

In Egyptian mythology, Nun was one of the Ogdoad, the eight divinities that formed the primordial forces descended from the essence of Chaos: Nun, an entity of the primordial waters, was an ether without volume or form; it was inert from the very beginning and extended throughout the cosmos.

The MAAB Gallery opens its new series of exhibitions in its venue in Padua with Flashback, a group show devoted to the five artists presented last year in Milan: Carmelo Arden Quin, Nanni Balestrini, Bruno Munari, Susanne Kutter, and Axel Lieber.