A new exhibition, 1975+27, dedicated to Gino De Dominicis will open on 13 March at Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, the historic ninth-century church that has housed Gladstone Gallery’s Rome programme since 2020.

The exhibition revisits 1975+27, the work De Dominicis presented on 31 January 1975 during 24 ore su 24, the week-long exhibition conceived by Fabio Sargentini at Galleria L’Attico. The project brought together thirteen artists, including Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis and Luigi Ontani, each invited to realise a time-based, ephemeral intervention scheduled at a precise hour over the course of the exhibition.

Conceived as the closing action, De Dominicis’s contribution took place between 10 p.m. and midnight on 31 January. The artist scattered ordinary drawing pins across the cement-tile floor of the gallery, arranging them to spell the sentence “NOI SIAMO LE PUNTINE” (“WE ARE THE PINS”). The title 1975+27 is generally understood to refer to the year of the exhibition combined with the artist’s age at the time, linking personal temporality with the broader temporal structure of Sargentini’s project, which sought to place space and time in a direct one-to-one relationship.

The presentation at Sant’Andrea de Scaphis pays tribute to one of the most enigmatic figures of late twentieth-century Italian art and precedes a series of group exhibitions featuring work by De Dominicis later this year, including at the MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome and during the Art House film festival founded by Adrian Paci in Shkodër.

1975+27
Sant’Andrea de Scaphis
Via dei Vascellari, 69, 00153 Roma RM, Italy
13 March, 6 – 9pm