An exhibition in Gradara on Anselmo Bucci, protagonist of the twentieth century

The Rete Museale Marche Nord, directed by Luca Baroni and with the municipality of Gradara as lead agency together with the municipalities of Apecchio, Borgo Pace, Mercatello sul Metauro, Mombaroccio and Terre Roveresche, is preparing to present to the public its first major exhibition event, dedicated to one of the most influential protagonists of the European twentieth century, namely Anselmo Bucci (Fossombrone, 1887 - Monza, 1955).

Bucci. From the Marchesto Paris - funded by the Marche Region and produced by the City of Gradara in collaboration with the Municipality of Fossombrone, Gradara Innova s.r.l. and the Rete Museale Marche Nord - is the title of the exhibition that, from December 2, 2023 to February 18, 2024, will crown a particularly significant year for the MARV (Museo d’Arte Rubini Vesin). The museum, which was opened to the public in February 2023 and is still partially undergoing redevelopment (work will be completed in June 2024), inaugurates with Bucci a 2024-25 exhibition season that is packed with events, and which has the stated goal of transforming Gradara and the municipalities of the Museum Network into a reference point of the highest level for art lovers in Italy and Europe.

More than 150 paintings, drawings, engravings and photographs will be on display, including works by Anselmo Bucci executed between 1904 and 1950 and arriving in Gradara thanks to the exceptional loan of the Quadreria Cesarini in Fossombrone, the Anselmo Bucci Archive and important private collectors. Born in Fossombrone, Bucci trained at the Brera Academy in Milan before emigrating, at a very young age, to Paris. Here, developing the Marche’s fascination with graphic art and intaglio, he quickly became one of the most highly regarded engravers on the French art scene, receiving praise from eminent critics such as Guillaume Apollinaire and collaborating with the top publishers and printers of the time. An artist with a European vocation, Anselmo traveled between Italy and Europe, frequently returning to his native region (Le Marche), of which he drew intimate figurative and literary descriptions.

More than sixty years after his death, Bucci is gradually being rediscovered as one of the greatest Italian artists of the 20th century, and a figure of particular importance for the identification of a Marche identity in the figurative arts. The exhibition “Bucci. Dalle Marche a Parigi” represents the continuation of the project Dalle Marche all’Europa: tre artisti per Gradara (From Marche to Europe: three artists for Gradara), financed by the Marche Region’s Call for Events and aimed at enhancing, with international tools and means of communication and in the form of a review of three art exhibitions complemented by the attached cultural products, the work of three artists originally from the province of Pesaro-Urbino but active at a very high level both in Italy and abroad in the early years of the 20th century: Luigi Toccacieli (b. 1945), Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955), and Guerrino Bardeggia (1937-2004).

The exhibition focuses on identifying the common territorial roots of the three artists and how their personal sensibility was expressed through the artistic medium in a context different from their native one, in a period from about 1900 to 2022. The choice of artists from the Marche area and, in particular, from the province of Pesaro and Urbino is aimed at building understanding, on the part of both local and international audiences, of the specificities and cultural richness of the area.

In fact, the aim of the exhibition Dalle Marche all’Europa is to strengthen the understanding of the specificities of the Marche region in the work of masters who, while working in heterogeneous contexts and eras, have always kept alive the contact with their homeland, celebrating it and building new tools to understand and appreciate it.

An exhibition in Gradara on Anselmo Bucci, protagonist of the twentieth century

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