Exhibition dedicated to Ottone Rosai with unpublished works coming to Montevarchi

From Oct. 25, 2020 to Jan. 31, 2021, an exhibition dedicated to Ottone Rosai ( Florence 1895 - Ivrea 1957), already scheduled for April but postponed due to the health emergency, will be held in Montevarchi at Palazzo del Podestà.

The exhibition, curated by Giovanni Faccenda, is being held on the occasion of the centenary of Rosai’s first Florentine solo exhibition in 1920. The exhibition will bring together fifty of the artist’s works, including drawings and oils, referable to the period between 1919 and 1932, between the two world wars, all coming from private collections. The public will be able to admire famous canvases by the painter, but also totally unpublished ones, which the curator has found in the course of his research both in private collections and in the homes of those who had, mainly in Tuscany but not only there, relations with Rosai or with his gallerists and heirs.

“One of the major peculiarities of this public exhibition,” Faccenda anticipates, "derives from the rediscovery of about ten absolute masterpieces by Rosai from the 1920s and 1930s, all from a private collection in Rome, which were present at the exhibition at Palazzo Ferroni, in Florence, in 1932, and documented in the first volume of the Catalogo Generale Ragionato delle Opere di Ottone Rosai (Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori, Milan, 2018), which I edited. Alongside them are the best-known excellences of a period - the interwar period (1918-1939) - that represents the aristocracy of Rosai’s painting and drawing. Add to this the desire to overcome an exegetical reading that is now outdated and limited of the work of this master among the greatest of the twentieth century, often lacking the necessary cultural references that must be grasped in it (Dostoevsky, Campana and Palazzeschi, among others) and a philosophical reflection that takes into account the affinities with the thought of Schopenhauer and the cosmic pessimism of Leopardi."

For info: www.comune.montevarchi.ar.it

Hours: Thursdays and Fridays from 3 to 7 p.m.; Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Image: Ottone Rosai, Meeting in Via Toscanella, detail(1922; oil on canvas, 70 x 35 cm)

Exhibition dedicated to Ottone Rosai with unpublished works coming to Montevarchi

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