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Notebooks, magazines, letters and recordings from critic Tommaso Trini's archive, from Domus to his magazine DATA, in the Archivi Ettore e Claudia Gian Ferrari.
In February 1969, Tommaso Trini printed Earthrise in Domus, the photo William Anders had just taken of the Earth from Apollo 8, beside an article on artists working with landscape and nature. That view from far away gives the show its title and its argument: a critic who read art alongside physics and astronomy.
You head up to the fourth floor, into the Archivi Ettore e Claudia Gian Ferrari, where four sections follow Trini from his first Domus pieces in 1966 through DATA, the magazine he ran from 1971 to 1978, to the video art shows of the mid-1980s. The cases hold notebooks, hand-annotated books, letters, photographs and audio and video recordings from his archive, many never shown before.
It's paper and tape rather than paintings, made for anyone curious how Arte Povera was first written up. Entry is in the €10 museum ticket (€5 reduced, free under 18), and Thursdays run to 22:30. A Cinema Arlecchino ticket cuts entry to €8.
You want artworks rather than paper: it's magazines, notebooks, letters and recordings from a critic's archive.