Exhibition Design for Pages: Mirella Bentivoglio, Selected Works 1966–2012
Pomona Museum of Art
January 20–May 17, 2015

Organized by Frances K. Pohl

Mirella Bentivoglio (1922–2017) was an Italian artist, poet, art critic, art historian, and curator. Recognized internationally as one of the key figures in the Concrete and Visual Poetry movements in Italy, she explores the relationship between language and image through works on paper, installations, sculpture, and performance. Bentivoglio’s work is marked by a critique, sometimes playful, sometimes somber, of the failures of Western societies—the obsession with material consumption, the pollution of the environment, the celebration of power over compassion, and the constant belittling and oppression of women.

The graphic design throughout Pages extended into physical space the aesthetic language of the exhibition catalogue designed by Content Object.