Flash Art 50: a weekend of Italian art history
28 – 29 October
Auditorium of the National Museum of Science and Technology “Leonardo Da Vinci” / Milan

Flash Art is turning fifty years old. The first contemporary art magazine in Europe, Flash Art was born in 1967 and has since represented one of the most influential sources of information for the international art system. To celebrate this special occasion, Flash Art promotes “Flash Art 50”, a two day symposium inviting some of the most influential personalities from the Italian art scene to retrace the history of art from 1967 until today.

“Flash Art 50” will be configured as a platform of exchange, where the voices that have contributed to Flash Art will flow in order to rehear and rediscover themselves. Articulated in five round tables, spread over two days and organised by decade – the Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, Noughties and Twenty-tens –, the symposium aims to deepen artistic research, theoretical lines and systemic trends that have characterised Italian art over the last fifty years. Each round table will include artists, critics, curators and gallerists – all pivotal figures in the evolution of artistic discourse in their respective eras – and will be moderated by a historical representative from our editorial portfolio.