In covering a time span of over forty years, Italics will be one of the most important exhibition dedicated to contemporary Italian Art ever organized. 107 artists, such as Lucio Fontana, Gastone Novelli, Pino Pascali, Renato Guttuso, Alighiero Boetti, Marisa Mertz, and more than 200 works will be presented. Extremely influential figures like Fernando Melani, and also unknown artists like Maria Lai will not fail to amaze the international public but also the Italian general public. Through a series of contrasts and symmetries, Italics will also include the latest generation of artists, ranging from Maurizio Cattelan, Vanessa Beecroft, Paola Pivi, Micol Assael and Roberto Cuoghi to emerging figures like Massimo Grimaldi and Enrico David. Works of Italian artists from the François Pinault Collection will be an important contribution to the exhibition.