The first solo exhibition by Paolo Scheggi at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, curated by Ilaria Bignotti and Jasna Jakšić, in collaboration with the Scheggi Archive and with the support of Tornabuoni Art, recalls the historic performance “Spettacolo Opla Stick, the Passion according to Paolo Scheggi“,  that took place in Zagreb 50 years ago. The performance opened the Typoetry exhibition at the Student Centre Gallery, as a part of the international Tendencies 4 exhibition.

Fifty years later, this re-enactment is not only a tribute to Paolo Scheggi, one of the most important Italian artists involved in the New Tendencies movement,  but an opportunity to analyse the dialogue between the visual arts, language and performance in the late 1960s, along with the role of visual and concrete poetry in experimental art and the neo-avantgarde. The exhibition will present archive documents, original artwork and a reconstruction of the performance by the performance collective BADco.