Japanese art, Richard Artschwager, collections focus: here's the 2019 exhibition schedule at Mart in Rovereto

The Mart - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto has presented its 2019 exhibition program. The Mart’s exhibition activity, the museum specifies, is generated and reverberates in the museum’s rich heritage: temporary exhibitions delve into the themes, currents and work of the artists present in the Collections, giving rise to a programming consistent with the institutional identity. In fact, each year the museum in Rovereto offers a rich calendar of exhibitions, retrospectives and focuses realized through collaborations with museums, cultural centers and collectors. In the last three years the Mart has organized exhibitions with some of the world’s most important institutions such as the Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, the MAPFRE Foundation in Madrid, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt. In Italy he has worked with the Museo del Novecento and the City of Milan, the Fondazione Magnani Rocca and prestigious public and private collections.

Every year the Mart forges significant alliances with major international museums to which it lends its masterpieces or for which it organizes exhibitions and installations. In 2018 about 150 works left Rovereto on their way to 32 major exhibitions such as POST ZANG TUMB TUUUM. Art life politics: Italy 1918-1943 (Fondazione Prada, Milan), Carlo Carrà (Palazzo Reale, Milan) Mario Merz, Igloos (Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan); Gala Salvador Dalí. A Room of One’s Own in Púbol (Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona), Dalí/Duchamp (Royal Academy, London). The Mart’s exhibitions and its policy of loans and exchanges with other museums represent real opportunities for heritage enhancement.

And it is precisely major international programs that characterize the 2019 calendar, in which exhibitions, in-depth focuses and special projects find their place. The first major exhibition renews the relationship between the Mart and Germany’s VAF-Stiftung, whose collecting horizon embraces modern and contemporary Italian art and outlines its variety.Thanks to valuable relationships with important Japanese museums, in the fall the Mart will present the most comprehensive exhibition ever held in Italy on early 20th-century Japanese painting. An extraordinary collaboration with the Guggenheim Bilbao will close the year. The two European museum giants, built in the same historical-urban period by two archistars in cities with an industrial past, will present a major research project curated by Germano Celant. There will be no shortage of in-depth Focuses on the Collections, projects of the Archivio del ’900, and exhibitions at the Casa d’Arte Futurista Depero and the Galleria Civica di Trento. Below is the 2019 schedule of exhibitions. For more info, we refer you to the Mart’s official website.

MART

Passion. 12 projects for Italian art
curated by Daniela Ferrari and Denis Isaia
in collaboration with Fondazione VAF
Feb. 23 - Aug. 4, 2019 | second floor
May 25 - September 8, 2019 | second floor

For an entire semester, the exhibition will occupy both galleries dedicated to temporary exhibitions, on the first and second floors. Punctuated by different moments and sections, Passion is a major project dedicated to the VAF Foundation, the largest collection on deposit at the Mart. Among the world’s most important collections, the German Foundation was born out of a great passion for Italian art. The exhibition identifies twelve distinct but permeable lines of inquiry into 20th-century painting and sculpture. The various sections that branch off help create a dense web of relationships that highlights the richness of directions in Italian artistic research. On display are more than 250 works including masterpieces by major modern and contemporary masters: Medardo Rosso, Carlo Carrà, Giorgio De Chirico, Alberto Savinio, Massimo Campigli, Felice Casorati, Renato Guttuso, Ettore Colla, Agostino Bonalumi, and Giuseppe Uncini.

8th edition of the VAF Foundation Prize.
March 16 - May 12, 2019 | foreground

Prominent among the twelve Passion projects is the first stage of the prestigious VAF Prize awarded by the German Foundation to Italian artists under 40. On Friday, March 15, the long-awaited winner will be proclaimed at the preview of the exhibition featuring this edition’s finalists. The participants are Nico Angiuli, Davide Balossi, Giulia Berra, Martina Brugnara, Nina Carini, Federica di Carlo, Andrea Fontanari, Giovanni Gasparro, Silvia Giambrone, Emanuele Giuffrida, J&Peg, Dario Maglionico, Domenico Antonio Mancini, Michele Parisi, Susanna Pozzoli, and Tania & Lazlo. During the summer, the Prize will be presented in Germany at the Stadtgalerie Kiel.

Ars Nipponica. Masters of early 20th century Japanese painting
curated by Tadashi Kanai
Sept. 28, 2019 - Jan. 12, 2020 | close-up

In recent years, the Mart has paid particular attention to that Italian painting of the early 20th century that, in opposition to the avant-garde, looked to tradition and rediscovered, reinterpreting them, its roots. After the exhibitions devoted to the Divisionists, Sironi and Boccioni, Magic Realism and Novecento Italiano, a new insight is given by the comparison with modern figurative painting in early 20th-century Japan and with those Japanese artists who, after a stay in Europe, recovered and reinterpreted Italian and European stylistic features. With about 60 masterpieces from Japanese museums and rarely seen in Europe, Ars Nipponica represents the visual evidence of encounters, reactions and assimilations of different cultures, suggesting a pluralistic and varied “return to order,” which allows a reflection on the very history of early 20th century painting.

Richard Artschwager
curated by Germano Celant
in collaboration with Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
October 12, 2019 - January 19, 2020 | second floor

Entrusted to curator Germano Celant, the largest exhibition ever presented in Europe on American Richard Artschwager (1923 - 2013) will be first in Italy, then in Spain. Aimed at the understanding of space, everyday objects and perception, Artschwager’s poetics emerged as a unicum in the art of the past century. His works deal with the representation of utilitarian tools reproduced with industrial materials such as formica, celotex, acrylic paint, and aluminum. Added to these foundational aspects is a focus on pure geometric form and pictorial illusionism. The result is paintings and sculptures that suspend the categories of image and object in a limbo between the space they physically occupy, the utility to which they refer, and artistic representation.

Focus Collections

The Pablo Echaurren Donation
curated by Duccio Dogheria, Denis Isaia, Mariarosa Mariech
April 7-June 23, 2019

Sara Enrico. The Jumpsuite Theme (Italian Council Prize)
curated by Denis Isaia
in collaboration with National Gallery in Prague
July 7 - October 20, 2019

Intermedia. Archives of New Writing. The Collection of Paolo Della Grazia
curated by Nicoletta Boschiero and Duccio Dogheria
in collaboration with Museion Bolzano
November 22, 2019 - spring 2020

FUTURIST ART HOUSE DEPERO

Fast Life, Like a Movie. Emanuele Caracciolo and the post-futurist cinema of the 1930s
curated by Nicoletta Boschiero and Federico Zanoner
April 13-October 20, 2019

Tuuumultum! Small atlas between art and music from the Mart’s collections
curated by Nicoletta Boschiero and Duccio Dogheria
November 9, 2019 - March 29, 2020

CIVIC GALLERY OF TRENTO

Face to face. Mauro De Carli and Piermario Dorigatti
curated by Margherita de Pilati
March 23 - May 12, 2019

Everyday Life. globalization | nationalism | representation
curated by Gabriele Lorenzoni and Carlo Sala
in collaboration with Festival of Economics 2019
May 30 - September 8, 2019

Gianni Pellegrini. Absences and presences
curated by Margherita de Pilati
September 21, 2019 - January 26, 2020

Japanese art, Richard Artschwager, collections focus: here's the 2019 exhibition schedule at Mart in Rovereto

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