A look at art since World War II in Pistoia

At its headquarters in Palazzo de’ Rossi, the Fondazione Pistoia Musei presents through August 22, 2021 the exhibition Glimpses on Art since World War II, curated by Alessandra Acocella, Annamaria Iacuzzi and Caterina Toschi, which is the second chapter of the Pistoia Novecento project. More than seventy works are on display, from the radical design of the Archizooms to the binary logic of Gianfranco Chiavacci’s works to Remo Gordigiani’s collages, the abstractionist researches of Gualtiero Nativi, Mario Nigro and Fernando Melani, and the pop paintings and objects of Roberto Barni, Umberto Buscioni, Adolfo Natalini and Gianni Ruffi.

The exhibition aims to offer an overview of the second half of the century in Pistoia, bringing together works by Pistoiese authors who belong to the permanent collection of Fondazione Pistoia Musei and works by artists who are not local but who had relationships with the city, as well as loans from public and private collections.

Also present is a rich selection of documents, including photographs, letters, posters, invitations and videos, to narrate the liveliness of Pistoia’s artistic context in the broader Tuscan, national and international context.

Starting after World War II, the exhibition continues chronologically through thematic macro-areas: Realism and Figuration; Abstract, Material, Programmed; Object and Image; Nature and Artifice; Sign, Gesture, Environment. Artists in the exhibition include Archizoom, Roberto Barni, Sigfrido Bartolini, Vinicio Berti, Massimo Biagi, Franco Bovani, Umberto Buscioni, Sergio Cammilli, Alfiero Capellini, Gianfranco Chiavacci, Andrea Dami, Agenore Fabbri, Alfredo Fabbri, Aldo Frosini, Giuseppe Gavazzi, Valerio Gelli, Donatella Giuntoli, Remo Gordigiani, Renato Guttuso, Mirando Iacomelli, Lando Landini, Marcello Lucarelli, Fernando Melani, Francesco Melani, Eugenio Miccini, Adolfo Natalini, Gualtiero Nativi, Mario Nigro, Renato Ranaldi, Gianni Ruffi, Giorgio Ulivi, Jorio Vivarelli, Corrado Zanzotto.

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Image: Remo Gordigiani, Collage No. 1. It’s better, detail (1964-1967; Fondazione Caript Collection)

A look at art since World War II in Pistoia

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