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Re: Startline 1963–1970/2023

Exhibitions that revisit seminal historical shows do the doubleduty of presenting the artistic productions of the day while carrying the potential to reveal the exhibitionary conditions of the time—whether explicitly curatorial, institutional, or experimental. The Fondazione Prada’s re-mounting in 2013, for instance, of Harald Szeemann’s 1969 exhibition at the Bern Kunsthalle “Live in Your Head. When Attitudes Become Form” afforded audiences not only an encounter with 1970s postminimalist sculptural practices,

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