1/9unosunove is pleased to announce the opening of CINQUANTA CENTO SETTANTA (Un gioco serio sull'idea di standard), an exhibition of fifty works by fifty artists of various generations, all engaging with the same format: the B1 (100x70cm)
OPENING 06.07.2026
6-9pm
1/9unosunove Via degli Specchi, 20 - Rome
The exhibition is both a survey and a game, a challenge inviting the participating artists to work within the constraints of this iconic format, originally developed as a technical requirement for printing and lithography before becoming a cornerstone of the visual arts. It exists at the intersection between the domestic and the museum, the unique and the serial, the institutional and the private.
Nineteenth-century French painting would likely have regarded the 100 × 70 cm format as one of the least suitable for painting: positioned somewhere between the square and the rectangle, too vertical for a figure painting, too narrow for a paysage, and too limited in width to accommodate a marine.
“Like Mercury Through the Graveyard (Big Foot)”, 2025
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
40 x 34 in