A new exhibition, 1975+27, dedicated to Gino de Dominicis will open on 13 March at Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, the historic 9th-century church in Rome transformed into an exhibition space by gallerist Gavin Brown.

Curated by Luca Lo Pinto, 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 Vettor Pisani, each invited to realise a time-based, ephemeral intervention scheduled at a precise hour over the course of the exhibition.

Closing the exhibition between 10 p.m. and midnight, de Dominicis scattered ordinary drawing pins across the gallery floor to form the sentence “NOI SIAMO LE PUNTINE” (“We are the pins”). The title of the work ‘1975+27’ is widely interpreted as a reference to the year of the exhibition and 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 solo presentation is a significant tribute amidst a series of group exhibitions that have recently featured work by de Dominicis in New York, London, and Belgium, as well as currently in Italy, including at the MAXXI in Rome, at Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto, and at the National Gallery in Perugia.

Via dei Vascellari, 69, 00153 Roma RM, Italy
13 March – 18 April