Keywords

• Spaces exhibition (MoMA
• New York
• 1969) is an interesting case study for assessing the impact of the reflections that
• starting from the second half of the seventies developed around the subject of the â€
• œ
• two culturesâ€
• 
• : art and science. The comparison of this relationship with contemporary thoughts(reflections) and expressions singles out common characteristics that makes the exhibition both an important testing moment within a solid institutional framework and an example of practical application of the many reflections on the interdisciplinarity and on the anti-object aesthetic. The comparison and analogies with the contemporary criticism by Jack Burnham highlights a â€
• œ
• scientificâ€
• 
• nature of the ongoing artistic renovation supported by positive confrontation with new technical discoveries and theories of the science historians. Jack Burnhamâ€
• ™
• s theory focuses on five main points: ongoing transition â€
• œ
• from an object-oriented to a system-oriented cultureâ€
• 
• anti-object
• the refuse of the autonomy of the art
• the emphasis on its conceptual element
• the temporal relativity of any definition or artistic theory. The theme of an â€
• œ
• aesthetic of the systemsâ€
• 
• significantly emerges and it defines a strong critical context not fully acknowledged in those years due to the ongoing artistic evolution towards the conceptualism of the seventies and to the period of transition to a postmodernism-style relational aesthetic