CAMPO UMANO Public Art 50 years after
21-22 September 2019

Villa Olmo,
via Simone Cantoni 1, Como

A project curated by Luca Cerizza | Zasha Colah

Conceived as a two-day conference and an exhibition, Campo Umano - Public Art 50 years after, celebrated the 50th anniversary of Campo Urbano, the art-event curated by Luciano Caramel that occupied the public spaces of the Italian town of Como for one day on 21 September 1969, reconsidering its merits and failures in its wider historical and artistic context. At the same time, the project seeked to continue the debate of what remains at stake in a social and technological context 50 years on, in which the same ideas of public space and public good, the concepts of collectivity and community, have profoundly mutated with respect to the time of Campo Urbano.