Melotti left behind an expansive work of Italian modernism consisting of drawings and ceramics, as well as his playful and poetical teatrini, which, through their distinctive style, fuse with his imaginative wire sculptures to form a surprisingly
coherent oeuvre.
For Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Doug Aitken, for the first time, casts a retrospective look at his influential
oeuvre, resulting in a parcours that renders the architecture of the building invisible while connecting the different works to form a
coherent spatial unit», says Max Hollein, Director of Schirn Kunsthalle.