An exhibition brings 35 masterpieces from Rende's MAON to Milan, from Boccioni to Rotella and beyond

As part of the City of Milan’s “Novecento Italiano” program, which documents art history from the historical avant-garde to the contemporary, from September 13 to October 14, 2018, the Fondazione Stelline presents the exhibition Contributions to the Novecento. From Boccioni to Rotella to Contemporaries, curated by Bruno Corà and Tonino Sicoli. The aim is to acquaint the general public with the 20th century collection of MAON - Museum of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Art in Rende (Cosenza). Thirty-five works are on display in a chronological narrative from the early twentieth century to the twenty-first century. A highlight of the collection is an unpublished pre-Futurist painting by Umberto Boccioni, Seascape with Trees, attributable to the great artist’s Milan period and presented to the public for the first time in 2017. The work, discovered in a Roman collection, is characterized by a subtle, rapid, filamentous painting, which is related to several pre-Futurist works in the Chiattone collection in Lugano, all executed around 1908.

Another prominent figure featured in the exhibition is Mimmo Rotella, a prince artist of Nouveau Réalisme, a trait d’union between Dadaism and Pop Art, a bridge of inventiveness between the use of ready-mades (the pieces of paper torn from posters on urban walls) and the icons of film advertising.

Among the works of the more than 30 artists featured are also the assemblages of objects and bronze twigs by Alik Cavaliere, professor and director of theBrera Academy in Milan and one of the first artists to exhibit at the Stelline Foundation, and the postmodern and minimalist installations of Alfredo Pirri.
The exhibition itinerary of the show is divided into two temporal sections:
- 1900-1945 / Le Avanguardie Storiche e il Novecento Italiano: with works by Enzo Benedetto, Umberto Boccioni, Achille Capizzano, Domenico Colao, Michele Guerrisi, Maria Grandinetti Mancuso, and Antonio Marasco;
- 1945-2000 / The Postwar Period and the New Trends: With Works by Cesare Berlingeri, Giancarlo Cauteruccio, Alik Cavaliere, Francesco Correggia, Luigi Di Sarro, Salvatore Dominelli, Francomà, Giuseppe Gallo, Antonio Gatto, Francesco Guerrieri, Bruno La Vergata, Domenico Lo Russo, Francesco Lupinacci, Luigi Magli, Max Marra, Mario Parentela, Rocco Pangaro, Pietro Perrone, Alfredo Pirri, Antonio Pujia Veneziano, Anna Romanello, Mimmo Rotella, Angelo Savelli, Nunzio Solendo, Giulio Telarico, Aldo Turchiaro, Fiorenzo Zaffina.

The choice to document an area, also capturing the so-called genius loci, does not mean a desire to do cultural anthropology, but rather to consider connections with the general climate, current trends, lines of research and broader historical-linguistic references.
The Stelline Foundation’s exhibition has the patronage of the Lombardy and Calabria Regions, the City of Milan and the City of Rende, and is organized in collaboration with the associations Centro “A. Capizzano” of Rende and “Aleph Arte” of Lamezia Terme.

The opening will be held on September 12 at 6:30 pm. Hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (closed Mondays).
For all information you can visit www.stelline.it or email fondazione@stelline.it.

Pictured Seascape with Trees by Umberto Boccioni (1908; oil on canvas, 64.5 x 54.5 cm). Courtesy MAON, Rende

An exhibition brings 35 masterpieces from Rende's MAON to Milan, from Boccioni to Rotella and beyond

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