Two exhibitions and a new exhibition space for the 20th anniversary of the Pastificio Cerere Foundation in Rome

The Pastificio Cerere Foundation in Rome, a center of cultural exchange and meeting for artists and curators, celebrates 20 years since its establishment with two exhibitions: the group show Angels. Fifty Years of Pastificio Cerere Stories and Even the Sun Rises, the solo exhibition by Wang Yuxiang (Anhui, China, 1997), curated by Marcello Smarrelli, open to the public from Oct. 2 to Nov. 30, 2024. The new exhibition area designed by architecture firm STARTT and an unprecedented pathway for the permanent collection will be inaugurated on this occasion.

The Foundation is based in the former Pastificio Cerere, the oldest of the factories in the San Lorenzo district, founded in 1905 and became known thanks to the artists of the “Gruppo di San Lorenzo,” Bruno Ceccobelli, Gianni Dessì, Giuseppe Gallo, Nunzio, Pizzi Cannella, and Marco Tirelli, who first decided to move their studios there. It was the 1970s and since then the industrial spaces were gradually converted into ateliers, becoming a landmark in Rome’s cultural scene. The Pastificio Cerere Foundation was born in 2004 under the presidency of Flavio Misciattelli and started a regular program of exhibitions, projects, educational activities, making it one of the most lively places of contemporary art in the city and international scene.

Angels. Fifty Years of Stories from the Pastificio Cerere brings together artworks, photos, videos and archival documents to create a storytelling of the former pasta factory, characterized by the passages and permanences of famous or more defiladed figures, many of them linked to the artists of the School of San Lorenzo, to the critics and curators who frequented the Palazzo from the 1970s onward (Achille Bonito Oliva, Martha Boyden, Ester Coen, etc..), to gallerists (Pino Casagrande, Ugo Ferranti, Fabio Sargentini, Gian Enzo Sperone, etc.), to supporters and patrons (Graziella Lonardi Buontempo, Elsa Peretti, etc.), to the many others who for different reasons have frequented or inhabited the ateliers. Among the authors called upon, belonging to very heterogeneous generations and formations, we find first of all Francesca Woodman, whose famous photographic series of Angels (1977) inspired the title of the exhibition, along with Lara Almarcegui, Micol Assaël, Carl Andre & Ana Mendieta, Elisabetta Benassi, Thomas Berra, Patrizia Cavalli, Numero Cromatico, Enzo Cucchi, Tomaso De Luca, Jim Dine, Flavio Favelli, Francesco Fonassi, Claire Fontaine, Corinna Gosmaro, Antony Gromley, David Hammons, Helena Hladilová, Adelita Husni-Bey, Margherita Moscardini, Giampiero Quaini, Calixto Ramírez, Fabrizio Sartori, Namsal Siedlecki, Giuseppe Stampone, with a special testimony by Romolo and Rosalba Bulla. A major part of the exhibition consists of materials from the archives of the six from the School of San Lorenzo and those of other important artists and photographers such as Claudio Abate, Elisabetta Catalano, Ottavio Celestino, Mimmo Capone, Ileana Florescu, Toni Garbasso, Enrico Luzzi and Massimo Piersanti.

Also the Sun Also Rises, by Wang Yuxiang, an exhibition realized with the support of MiC and SIAE as part of the Per Chi Crea program presents a new body of work composed of three site-specific installations featuring the concept of entropy, investigated by the artist as a complex system of relationships between man and nature. Another important novelty will be theopening of a space with a museum vocation that will house the permanent collection destined to be enriched with site-specific works created in dialogue with the industrial archaeology artifacts of the decommissioned factory. The first core of this collection consists of works by Piero Pizzi Cannella, Agostino Iacurci, Riccardo Previdi and Francesco Simeti. In addition, the second volume of theRoll of Honor is scheduled to be published, expanding the account of the first ten years of activity covered in the first volume published in 2019.

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Two exhibitions and a new exhibition space for the 20th anniversary of the Pastificio Cerere Foundation in Rome

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