Los Angeles.

If New York is the world, Los Angeles is definitely America. Or at least that America that seizes our imagination and never lets go. A megalopolis in the desert, a universe in itself that speaks a host of languages and embodies just as many contradictions: a Republican territory thatÆs home to Underground culture, Hollywood and the Beat generation, Charles Manson and Marilyn Manson, a hotchpotch of languages, dialects and peoples. Los Angeles (state of mind) is the story of a city through different generations of artists who found success there from the 1970s to the present day. At first, even in California, styles and languages overlapped with each other with no prevalent direction or genre. We find the Pop Art of Ed Ruscha coexisting with the most recent abstract art experiences of Sam Francis. But the 1970s were also the decade of conceptual art, Body Art and the happenings, with figures such as John Baldessari, Chris Burden and Paul McCarthy, often extreme performers, and Bruce Nauman, Ed Kienholz and Lyn