Exhibition in Montevarchi dedicated to Ottone Rosai to open in October

New opening dates have been announced for the exhibition dedicated to Ottone Rosai (Florence, 1895 - Ivrea, 1957) in Montevarchi (Arezzo): the exhibition was supposed to be open to the public from April 9, 2020, at the Palazzo del Podestà, but due to the Covid-19 emergency it was not possible. However, thanks to the great sensitivity shown by all the lenders of the works, the new opening period was identified, namely from October 25, 2020 to January 31, 2021.

This is an exhibition dedicated to the famous Florentine artist active in the first half of the 20th century in commemoration of the centenary of his first Florentine solo exhibition, held in 1920. That exhibition brought him to the attention of the art world.

The Montevarchi exhibition, which will bring together fifty of Rosai’s works, including drawings and oil paintings, between 1919 and 1932, will be curated by Giovanni Faccenda, Rosai’s leading expert and curator of the general catalog of his works.
The public will be able to admire well-known canvases, as well as unpublished works that have emerged from the research Professor Faccenda has conducted in the private collections and homes of those who had relations with Rosai or his gallerists and heirs.

The curator himself anticipated, "One of the greatest peculiarities of this public exhibition derives from the rediscovery of about ten absolute masterpieces by Rosai from the 1920s and 1930s, all from a private collection in Rome, 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. Added to this is the desire to overcome an exegetical reading that is now outdated and limited of the work of this master among the greatest of the twentieth century, often lacking the necessary cultural references that must be grasped in it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."

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Image: Ottone Rosai, Landscape (1939; oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm)

Exhibition in Montevarchi dedicated to Ottone Rosai to open in October

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