The Highlands Current: Art is the Mix, Not the Ingredients

Lucio Pozzi ‘zigs and zags’ at Magazzino

For robust 90-year-old artist Lucio Pozzi, mixing and matching, “zigging and zagging” and getting lost in the process is a fruitful recipe for creativity. At his new exhibit, In Here, at Magazzino Italian Art in Philipstown, a handwritten menu he titled “Inventory Game” lists around 140 concepts and techniques.

Created in 1968, “when everyone declared painting to be dead,” he says, the menu directs artists to “mix ingredients at will” and transcend artificial constrictions.