Carrà 140: Alessandria traces the art of the great avant-garde painter

On the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the birth of Carlo Carrà (Quargnento 1881 - Milan 1966), Alessandria pays homage to the famous painter, among the protagonists of the avant-garde, with an exhibition: in fact, it will be the Quadreria del Broletto in Palatium Vetus that will host until October 3, 2021 forty-four works, some of which are unpublished, that the artist created from 1898 to 1965.

Carrà 140. Works from the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Alessandria and from private collections in Alessandria, this is the title of the exhibition, is curated by Fulvio Cervini, Maria Luisa Caffarelli and Rino Tacchella, is promoted by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Alessandria and realized by the investee company Palazzo del Governatore srl.

On display are 44 works, including oils, drawings and etchings, from the Foundation’s art collection and partly from collectors in Alessandria: Carlo Carrà’s artistic career is witnessed in the exhibition at every stage from Divisionism to the Futurist experience, from the Metaphysical parenthesis to the figurative tradition, and to the landscapes painted in many places of the peninsula.

The exhibition is developed following a circular arrangement that intends to retrace the phases of the artist’s production, with a special focus on landscapes, typical of all his production and particularly of his last period. An iconic work of the exhibition is the 1914 collage Lacerba and Bottle, completed upon his return from Paris after learning about the Cubism of Picasso and Braque.

Other works on display include the Great frieze with dancing putti from the first decade of the twentieth century; Punta della dogana from 1948, the first painting acquired by the Foundation in 2004; a series of engravings never exhibited in which the themes dearest to the artist return; and, coming in part from private collectors in Alessandria, numerous landscapes, painted in Versilia, Venice, Florence and Umbria, including Campagna di Versilia dating from 1965.

“Eight years after the recovery of Palatium Vetus,” says President Luciano Mariano, “the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Alessandria returns to organize in the Quadreria del Broletto an art exhibition, dedicated to the great artist from Alessandria, Carlo Carrà with the aim of giving value and knowledge to the protagonists of the cultural scenario of the territory in which the Foundation operates, in line with the objectives it has always pursued also in building the art collection that is a fundamental part of its own identity. The exhibition represents the first chapter of a wide-ranging project in which the Foundation will gradually make the works of its collection, composed mainly of the works of artists in various ways linked to the territory, such as Carrà himself, more and more accessible to the public, and along a path that unravels from the 15th to the 21st century.”

Image: Carlo Carrà, I pagliai (1953; oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm; private collection)

Carrà 140: Alessandria traces the art of the great avant-garde painter

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