From 19th-century landscapes to regime futurism, all exhibitions at Mart in Rovereto in 2018

A dense program of events is what the Mart, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, has planned for 2018. Below are all the exhibitions, with dates and locations. More information can be found on the museum’s website.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Mart, Rovereto

Magical Realism. Enchantment in Italian Painting in the 1920s and 1930s.
Curated by Gabriella Belli and Valerio Terraroli
Through April 2, 2018

Carlo Alfano. Subject space subject
Curated by Denis Isaia and Gianfranco Maraniello
Through April 22, 2018

Francesco Lo Savio
Curated by Silvia Lucchesi, Alberto Salvadori, Riccardo Venturi
Through March 18, 2018

Focus Archives | The magazine as a place for artistic research: the Capti portal
Curated by the Archivio del ’900
Through February 25, 2018

Depero Futurist Art House

In font we trust! Art and typography from the Collections of the Mart
Curated by Nicoletta Boschiero and Duccio Dogheria
Through February 18, 2018

Trento Civic Gallery

Building Trentino. Architecture Prize 2013_2016
Curated by CiTrAC - Circolo Trentino per l’Architettura Contemporanea and Ordine degli Architetti della Provincia di Trento
Through March 4, 2018

MART 2018 | PROGRAMS AND PERSPECTIVES

NEW EXHIBITIONS 2018

Mart, Rovereto

Journey to Italy. Nineteenth-century landscapes from the Macchiaioli to the Symbolists
Curated by Alessandra Tiddia
April 21-August 26, 2018
In collaboration with Istituto Matteucci, Viareggio

The landscapes of the Bel Paese, the favorite destination of European travelers engaged in the traditional Grand Tour, are the protagonists of this exhibition dedicated to nineteenth-century painting. The exhibition traverses a century of research devoted to landscape and its effects of light and color: from the pictorial experiences that matured in southern Italy with the Posillipo School to the “landscapes of the soul” of symbolist tendency presented in the first editions of the Venice Biennale, passing through the fundamental and innovative experience of the Tuscan Macchiaioli. The technological inventions that characterized the 19th century, such as photography, the possibility of observing the world from new points of view (aerial views from the hot air balloon, for example) and a changed sensibility mark the evolution of landscape painting from an idea of a simple view to the more complex and subjective idea of vision. On display are works by Bezzi, Ciardi, De Nittis, Fattori, Fragiacomo, Gigante, Lega, and Signorini.

Gianfranco Baruchello
Curated by Gianfranco Maraniello
May 19-September 16, 2018
In collaboration with Baruchello Foundation, Rome

The exhibition conceived with Gianfranco Baruchello (Livorno 1924) traces the research of an author who worked beyond the traditional boundaries of art, questioning cultural systems and conventions. An experimenter in languages and techniques, Baruchello began his activity in the late 1950s by rethinking the medium of painting, practicing juxtaposition, assemblage, writing, and scale reduction. In constant dialogue with the innovative thinking of Marcel Duchamp, his approach to new forms of expression moves from paintings on various media to the creation of box-objects, from film montage to the creation of actions and projects on an environmental scale. Also with reference to the experience of Agricola Cornelia, where the cultivation of the land becomes a tool for reflection on the nature of art, the exhibition traces an itinerary through Baruchello’s main nuclei of investigation, exploring the space of the work and the relationship between the real and dreamlike dimensions, in a peculiar methodology adopted between the artist and curator Gianfranco Maraniello.

Margherita Sarfatti. The Novecento Italiano in the World
Curated by Daniela Ferrari
September 22, 2018 - February 24, 2019

To the figure of Margherita Sarfatti, journalist, art critic and promoter of Italian art between the two wars, a research project is dedicated that develops in two different exhibitions, at Mart and the Museo del Novecento in Milan. In order to reconstruct the role of the major protagonist of the debate on classicism and modernity in the Italian and international art scene, in Rovereto the exhibition makes use of the precious documents of the Sarfatti Fund, kept at the Mart’s Archivio del ’900. From her youthful beginnings to the founding of the Novecento Italiano group of artists, the exhibition recounts Sarfatti’s ambitious project of cultural expansion, with particular attention to the exhibitions organized in Europe and the Americas. On display are masterpieces by Boccioni, Bucci, Casorati, de Chirico, Dudreville, Funi, Marussig, Malerba, Morandi, Oppi, Medardo Rosso, Sironi, Severini, and Wildt.

Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg
Curated by Lena Lessing
Oct. 6, 2018-Jan. 13, 2019
In collaboration with Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Malmö

Winner of the Silver Lion and Carnegie Art Award, present in the world’s major collections, among the leading figures of contemporary art in Northern Europe, Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg has exhibited in the most important international institutions, including Tate Britain, P.S.1 in New York, 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai and Fondazione Prada in Milan. For years Djurberg has collaborated with Hans Berg, a musician, producer and composer who is particularly well-known in electronic and experimental circles. Together the two artists build large immersive installations, true landscapes of the absurd that investigate the dynamics and contradictions of our time. Between irony and paradox, the two artists stage sharp allegories of the most visceral and grotesque feelings: jealousy, revenge, greed and lust. Mart’s is the largest exhibition ever devoted to the Swedish duo.

Futurist Art House Depero

Metallic Animals. The cult of the automobile in the 20th century
Curated by Nicoletta Boschiero and Federico Zanoner
March 3-June 10, 2018

The protagonist of a profound transformation of the landscape and collective lifestyle, the automobile is at the center of an exhibition that spans different moments in 20th-century art history. From the Futurist myth of the automobile in motion to the fascination with the aesthetic values of cars in the paintings of the 1920s and 1930s, the exhibition reaches the present with works by artists who have made the image of the car their own, expressing interest or criticism towards it. The exhibition is enriched by a selection of photographs, illustrations, advertising and printed materials from the Mart’s Archivio del ’900.

Manu propria. The calligraphic sign as a work of art
Curated by Nicoletta Boschiero and Duccio Dogheria
June 16 - September 30, 2018

Writing as a pictorial form assumed a prominent position in twentieth-century art practices. In the second half of the century, the relationships between artists and poets, the contaminations between languages, and the layering of images and words became increasingly intense. Among works, posters, experimental journals and archival documents, the exhibition explores the aesthetic use of the calligraphic sign through fifty years of art history: from the pictorial experience of Gastone Novelli and Achille Perilli to the painted alphabets of Carla Accardi, Giuseppe Capogrossi and Antonio Sanfilippo, to the verbo-visual researches of artists such as Ugo Carrega and Ben Vautier.

The Master & Margherita. Marinetti, Sarfatti and Regime Futurism.
Curated by Nicoletta Boschiero
October 20, 2018 - January 13, 2019

Coinciding with the exhibition at the Mart, Casa Depero’s exhibition project addresses a particular aspect of the critical activity of Margherita Sarfatti, promoter of Novecento Italiano and the idea of a modern classicism: her relationship with Futurism and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. From her frequentation of Sarfatti’s Milan salon to the 1926 Venice Biennale, the exhibition traces the main moments of this confrontation, delving into the events of Futurism during the years of the regime. The exhibition makes use of a nucleus of works from the Museum Collections and the important documentation of the Sarfatti Fund kept at the Archivio del ’900.

Trento Civic Gallery

Sam Falls. Nature is the New Minimalism
Curated by Margherita de Pilati
March 17-June 26, 2018

Included among the “30 Under 30” to watch according to Forbes, invited by ArtBasel 2015 to set up a large space within the Unlimited section, hailed by the trade press and collectors, American Sam Falls (1984) presents his first solo show in an Italian museum. Through a multiplicity of different media, both analog and digital, Sam Falls’ work is an exploration of color, natural processes, perception and image as material data. His performance practice involves a close relationship with the land and the contexts in which he works. In Trento, the exhibition will be entirely site-specific works. The exhibition features drawings, paintings, videos and sculptures made specifically for the exhibition.

Near but not here
Curated by Luca Coser, Margherita de Pilati, Gabriele Lorenzoni
July 14-October 14, 2018

Near but not here brings to Trento, for the first time all together, those artists from Trentino, by birth or origin, who have built their international careers in other territorial contexts, in Italy and abroad. The Civic Gallery presents the cultural research of those who find themselves living - ideally and physically - in an elsewhere that is not only geographical. An exhibition that shortens distances, a journey among the heterogeneous languages of contemporary culture, from visual arts to literature, from cinema to music, from architecture to design. The project is curated by Trentino artist Luca Coser, a professor at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, with the curators of the Galleria Civica.
Focus Collections
Mart, Rovereto

The Invention of the Modern

Focus | Fragments of a History. A museum for Trento and Rovereto
From March 24, 2018

The irruption of the contemporary

Focus | Pietro Consagra. Plot
May 5 - July 29, 2018

Focus | Alighiero Boetti. Herodias - Hunger for the Wind
September 1 - October 14, 2018

Focus | Luca Bertolo
December 1, 2018 - February 3, 2019

Focus Archives
Mart, Rovereto

Focus | Representing Architecture. Models between history and valorization
March 3 - September 30, 2018

Focus | Pablo Echaurren. Pictorial Caffeine
October 6, 2018 - March 31, 2019

From 19th-century landscapes to regime futurism, all exhibitions at Mart in Rovereto in 2018

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