Pino Pascali, a Little-Seen and Much-Loved Giant of Italian Art History, Gets a Retrospective in Milan

Pino Pascali once called the typical format for exhibitions, wherein an artist passes off finished products to someone else now charged with showing them, “a kind of graveyard.” So what does it mean that Pascali has now been awarded the greatest graveyard of them all—a retrospective? It’s a paradox, to be sure, but it’s also a gift, since this artist, whose work is more often talked about than seen in bulk, has rarely gotten the treatment.Maybe that’s because