An important exhibition is open to the public on the ground and first floor of FAR (Fabbrica Arte Rimini):  the Peretti Archipelago exhibition, a special project that considers the affective bond between the two artists, protagonists of two generations. “Archipelago” is a term used not only to remind the family’s name, but also to mark the distance of style and action that exists between an artist who has lived during the Sixties and his son who’s started to work more than 30 years later.
The father, Ferdinando Peretti, had been in contact with the roman Pop Art for a long time. Both a painter and a sculptor, during the years Ferdinando was devoted to an artistic and historic activity, as a researcher and paintings collector. In particular, he studied the Italian’s painting from the 16^th to the 19^th century.
The son, Matteo Peretti, has become one of the most original and famous artists of contemporary art. In his works, Matteo analyses our society from an ironic and sarcastic point of view and reveals the coercive mechanisms present in it, through a ludic atmosphere.
The insular theme represents the link between their works on show at FAR: Ferdinando Peretti Cuba-Giannutri at the Palace’s upper floor and PET island, composed by several works, some already made, others created site specific for this exhibition.
The exhibition is mostly focused on plastic material, first of all because it is the main part of all the installations, and then because it conceptually reminds some important social themes, like pollution, consumerism and easy mercification.
To create his PET island, Peretti looks back at the new island on the Pacific Ocean in an ironic, but at the same time critic way. The island is composed just by the world’s plastic waste and this fact constrains the spectator to stop and think critically not only from an artistic point of view, but from a human and social one. The exhibition has transformed the Podestà and Arengo Palace into an alternative reality that allows a more acute consideration on the proposed themes.