All Florentine art from the mid-20th century to the present in one exhibition, in Florence

On Wednesday, June 24, 2020, on the occasion of the feast of St. John, the patron saint of Florence, La Fonderia Art Gallery will open its doors, in the space at 42R Via della Fonderia, with a group exhibition entitled Florence, from the 1950s to the present day.

This is the second exhibition that La Fonderia Art Gallery is organizing in a new and innovative way to engage its audience, in full compliance with all safety rules. This time the opening will take place on June 24, an important date that relaunches Florentine-ness as a creative identity. The exhibition investigates the artistic production that characterized the 1950s to the present day with a selection of artists with an incisive mark who have “made history in Florence.”

From the masters who represented the artistic movements of the 1950s such as Vinicio Berti, Gualtiero Nativi, Mario Nuti and Alvaro Monnini, to Visual Poetry, represented here by Lucia Marcucci and Giuseppe Chiari, the latter being the only Italian artist adhering to the international “Fluxus” movement, to Primo Conti, Antonio Bueno, Riccardo Guarneri, Silvio Loffredo, Sergio Scatizzi, Roberto Barni, Luca Alinari, Giuseppe Ciccia up to the up-and-coming Leopoldo Innocenti, Claudio Cionini, Cecilia Chiavistelli and Riccardo Macinai and a call to the Tuscan figurative tradition with Nino Tirinnanzi.

“With this exhibition,” explains young gallery owner Niccolò Mannini, born in 1991, “we wanted to retrace an important historical moment for art in Florence, a time when artistic-cultural dialogue was fermenting, when our city was trying hard to regain its rightful place among the great Italian cities ablaze with artistic initiatives and movements, but by hooking contemporary Florentine art into this and thus involving young artists whose work was already known, proposing a comparison.”

The exhibition aims to be a meeting point between the Florentine post-World War II avant-garde and a section dedicated to the proposals of emerging artists who work permanently in Florence (Chiavistelli, Innocenti, Macinai) or, as in the case of Cionini, divide their time between the Tuscan capital and their hometown. An exhibition dedicated to Florence and its recent history.

The exhibition ends on July 18.

For all information you can visit the official website of La Fonderia Art Gallery.

Pictured: Giuseppe Chiari, Free you (2002)

All Florentine art from the mid-20th century to the present in one exhibition, in Florence

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