Talk – Giovanni Campus “Il tempo, il processo e la passione” – un dialogo tra Marco Meneguzzo, Francesco Tedeschi ed Emma Zanella

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026, at 5.30PM
on the second floor of BUILDING GALLERY, Milan

Speakers:
Marco Meneguzzo, curator of the exhibition
Francesco Tedeschi, art critic and professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan
Emma Zanella, Director of MA*GA Museum in Gallarate

The event will be held in Italian.
RSVP required, limited seats available: events@building-gallery.com, +39 02 89094995

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026, at 5.30PM, BUILDING will host, in BUILDING GALLERY’s space, an in-depth talk on Maestro Giovanni Campus (1929–2025), featuring curator Marco Meneguzzo in conversation with Francesco Tedeschi, art critic and professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, and Emma Zanella, Director of the MA*GA Museum in Gallarate. The conversation aims to explore and reflect on Campus’s work through the perspectives of several art critics and curators who personally knew the Maestro and followed his research throughout his career.

This talk is presented on the occasion of the exhibition GIOVANNI CAMPUS: Time and Passion. A Tribute to the Artist (1929–2025) – (26.03.2026–23.05.2026), dedicated to Maestro, a few months after his passing.
The exhibition, curated by Marco Meneguzzo, grew out of a desire to celebrate and pay tribute to one of the most rigorous and consistent artistic research in the contemporary Italian art scene. Through a selection of the artist’s emblematic artworks—brought together in the exhibition space from the ground floor to the first floor of the gallery—the exhibition conveys the power of an essential language based on the dialogue between time, space, and sign.

The exhibition aims to serve as a fitting tribute to the artist from Milan, the city that welcomed him in the 1960s and where he lived and worked for over fifty years. In this context, the exhibition begins on the ground floor with two wall-mounted projections dedicated to photographic documentation of the artist’s most famous actions/interventions. On the walls, there are works from the 1970s and 1980s from the BUILDING collection—including Segnico continuo (1977), Struttura modulare multipla (1970), and Percorso. Intervento (1983)—while the space is traversed by springs that, echoing the 1977 installation, on the one hand, limit the view of the exhibition space, and, on the other, evoke a dimension of utopian constructive happiness.
On the first floor, the exhibition continues in the same spirit with a selection of works from subsequent decades, including several concrete pieces from the 1980s, titled Determinazione, and the famous Tempo in Processo. Rapporti-misure-connessioni (2008–2018).