The Plastic Age began in the 1950s, when the cheap and easily produced material quickly became a staple of everyday life. Pop artists like James Rosenquist played with its prominence, using it to telegraph the power of consumer culture and the way it shaped life itself. The synthetic material soon appeared in the trash works of Nouveau Realism, as well as the installations and assemblages of contemporary art. In the form of microplastics, it has also made its way into every corner of the environment and into the bodies of living creatures. This timely exhibition presents the history of plastic, its utopian spirit and ecological threat, with 100 works by 50 international artists, among them Christo, César, Eva Hesse, and Kiki Kolgelnik. —Elena Clavarino